11.   CRASH -- How does the board that investigates train crashes put themselves together to react to emergencies.

12.   Earlier today, a spokesman for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency confirmed it also is investigating the crash, looking for clues that might suggest a foreign connection.

13.   Experts from the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating the crash.

14.   Federal officials said that the crash was being investigated as an accident, but that they had not ruled out terrorism, sabotage or other criminal acts.

15.   Federal aviation investigators from Washington flew to Colombia to investigate the crash.

16.   Furthermore, there is no requirement that federal safety officials investigate crashes of government airplanes.

17.   He said that the National Transportation Safety Board, the agency that investigates airline crashes, has never found that a bogus or unapproved part caused an aircraft accident.

18.   In April, Lt. Christopher Claypool of the Columbus, Ohio, police department was struck and killed by a car while investigating a crash.

19.   In Washington, President Clinton ordered American agencies to coordinate efforts to investigate the crash and aid the families of victims, for whom he expressed deep sympathy.

20.   It is being studied by the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates crashes.