Back Stories: Avianca Flight 52 Crashes In Cove Neck

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It was January 25, 1990 when a plane en route to New York from Bogota, Colombia went down in the Long Island village of Cove Neck. WCBS reporter Rich Lamb was on the scene in the hours after the tragedy and looks back in today's WCBS Back Story.