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the air force said today is it sending a special team to italy to
look at the jet that cut the wires of that cable car in northern italy.
20 people were killed when the car fell to the ground. there is outrage
in italy because many people believe that the plane was flying too
low. abc's jim wooten reports tonight from the italian ski resort
in cavalese. in this mountain village, many residents believe the
american pilot was hotdogging, showing off, when his plane clipped
the cable and sent the car plummeting to earth. and the italian prime
minister was just one of millions of furious italians today. he suggested
that criminal charges ought to be filed. a terrible act, beyond the
law, he called it. the lowest legal altitude is 500 feet. the american
military has not said why the marine plane was at 300 feet or below.
and at the aviano air base, italian prosecutors said the american
crew chose not to answer questions there today. the mayor of cavalese,
the nato planes break the law all the time, he says. the local fire
chief was the first to arrive on the scene. "they should be prosecuted,
" he says of the american crew. "it's a crime what they did." as the
victims' bodies were driven away today, back to home towns all across
europe, the mangled wreckage was under constant police guard. next
to a tangle of floody skis and equipment, a modest memorial to those
who died. jim wooten, abc news, cavalese, italy.