Tom Costello

摘要

After a major airline disaster, how quickly do you begin your reporting ? I've got several beats that I'm responsible for at NBC News, but when there's an aviation incident, that immediately takes priority. I will very often jump in front of a camera, and my producer, Jay Blackman, will begin working the phones behind me. How close Is the press allowed to get to a crash site? Well, we obviously respect all law enforcement and EMS [emergency medical services] tape. So we're not going to cross any lines whatsoever. Generally, they will keep us pretty far away. For example, with the Asiana crash [in San Francisco in 2013], that was an active runway. We're not going to come anywhere near an active runway. In that case, we were actually quite far away-I think at a hotel parking lot.