Terror or Accident? <i>Newsday</i> and the Crash of American Airlines Flight 587
This text+video case asks students to engage in a difficult calculus: report on deadline about a disaster when the causes are unclear. On November 12, 2001, two months and a day after the terrorist attacks of September 11, American Airlines Flight 587 leaving Kennedy Airport went down in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York.
This is a video case.
Case number:
CSJ-09-0013.0
Category:
Journalism Cases
Topics:
digital media, crisis reporting
Teaching resources:
Teaching note