Oct. 22: 'Rescue on the Mountainside' and 'Stealing Paradise'

Coming up this Friday at 9pm/8c on Dateline...

In a NBC News exclusive, former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe talks with Ann Curry about how he and his son survived the tragic Alaskan plane crash that killed former Senator Ted Stevens and four others in August 2010.

Watch exclusive previews of 'Rescue on the Mountainside' below:

Also on Dateline this Friday, when two Americans living in Panama go missing, islanders discover the dark side of a fun-loving bartender in Bocas del Toro. Kate Snow reports.

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Gripping story of tragedy and survival. But Ann Curry is terrible...the questions she ask are just obvious and come off as stupid...really really bad...and they are dragging 10 minutes out to an hour.

    Reply#1 - Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:56 PM EDT

    Crazy story but this show is terrible! I can't believe its two hours long, 1.5 hours of commercials and scene replays and 30mins of real content. The the faux emotion from Curry was completely see-through.....ugh. I won't know how things ended because I changed the channel. It's actually an insult to the victims and survivors of the crash.

      Reply#2 - Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:15 PM EDT

      Your entitled to your opinion but I thought Ann Curry did a decent job.

        #2.1 - Sun Oct 24, 2010 2:43 AM EDT
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        It looked like the guy being interviewed tried to live up to her level of emotion but fell short and was embarrassed.

          Reply#3 - Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:51 PM EDT

          The only thing I didn't understand in this great story of survival is why didn't the Doctor and the Emt's bring medications with them? The Doctor apparently found some but I couldn't understand why that wouldn't be a staple in any emergency medical kit. What caused the crash?

            Reply#4 - Sun Oct 24, 2010 2:42 AM EDT

            This is a mess as presented on-line. Are the segments out of order or are some missing? No where is there a clear line up about who survived and who died. For the whole first third of the presentation, I thought Kevin O'Keefe didn't make it. The mother and daughter were introduced in the beginning, but you could only guess they died because the narration referred to them in the past tense. Worst of all, the film was cut in a way so that the doctor's remark about someone not "dying on my shift" was presented twice --first as a direct response to a question supposedly asked by Sean O'Keefe, and then later as a direct response to a question asked by Jim Morhard, who was barely mentioned in the entire presentation and only at the end identified as living. Sheesh. Don't know whether the on-line people made these mistakes, the film cutters, or the person ultimately responsible for organizing and presenting the segment --but whoever it was, they got paid a huge salary for a dramatic story turned into just tossed and mixed up salad?

              Reply#5 - Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:38 AM EDT

              Why are there no transcipts of these episodes online anymore? That makes me mad! Dateline please put them back on.Thank you!

                Reply#6 - Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:49 PM EDT
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