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 It is a sad day. Nothing grieves me more than to have to report to you that this morning, an American Airlines flight was lost in New York. I will be leaving for New York immediately to lead the American Airlines Care Team that is responding to today's accident. Our primary concern will be to provide support to the families of our passengers and employees lost today, to all of our employees and to the people on the ground in NY.
At this time, we have no indication of what caused the accident. We have moved quickly to help organize the response and to support the investigation. Toward that end, I have already been in touch with Andrew Card at the White House and with Mayor Guiliani and Governor Pataki in New York, as well as with officials in Santo Domingo.
Let me just provide some basic facts about the flight today. It was American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 aircraft en route from New York Kennedy to Santo Domingo. The airplane was lost today shortly after take off from Kennedy Airport. The preliminary passenger list indicated the aircraft carried 246 passengers and a crew of nine.
Family members wishing to receive information about passengers may contact American Airlines at our toll-free number at 800 245 0999.
As you would imagine, today's news comes at a difficult time for the nation, for the airline industry and for American Airlines. Given the changed world we live in today, it will be as important as it has ever been to quickly and accurately determine the cause of this accident. First and foremost, however, our thoughts and prayers are with the families of our passengers and employees of those lost today.
I will be leaving immediately from DFW for New York.
(Agencies)
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這是不幸的一天。我懷著萬分悲痛的心情向各位宣布，今天上午美洲航空公司的一架飛機在紐約失事。我將立即趕往紐約主持美洲航空公司救援組針的救援工作。我們的工作重點是向航班上遇難乘客和機組人員的家屬，向美洲航空公司的全體員工和飛機墜毀所殃及的紐約市民盡可能的提供幫助。
目前飛機失事的原因還不清楚。但是我們已經對此次事故做出迅速的反應，并且盡一切力量配合事故原因的調查工作。為此，我已經與布什政府參謀長安德魯-卡德、紐約市長朱利安尼、紐約州州長保陶基以及多米尼加共和國首都圣多明各的官員取得了聯系。
 讓我來告訴大家一些關于此次飛行的基本情況。失事飛機是美洲航空公司第587次航班，是一架正從紐約肯尼迪機場飛往多米尼加共和國首都圣多明各的空中客車A300型客機。此次航班從肯尼迪機場起飛后不久便墜毀，乘客名單顯示航班上共有246名乘客，機組人員9名。
乘客家屬可以撥打美洲航空公司的免費電話800-245-0999，查詢機上乘客的有關具體情況。
大家可以想象，在如今這個多事之秋，今天的這起機毀人亡的事件對我們的國家、對航空工業以及美洲航空公司無疑是雪上加霜。鑒于目前的國際形勢的變化，盡快地、準確地找到飛機失事的原因是我們目前的重要任務。但首先還是讓我們為在此次事故中遇難的乘客和機組人員的家屬表示慰問。
我將立即從達拉斯動身前往紐約。
(中國日報網站譯)
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Updated: 2001-11-13 01:00
