dr. george mcvehil is a meteorologist from denver.tudy concluded that bowater's contribution to the fog on the day of the accident was less than 1%. >> our conclusion was that the fog formed by a natural process due to mixing of moist air at different altitudes at about 9:00 on the morning of december 11th, after the sun had come up and heated the ground enough to start the mixing process. that, in a very abbreviated and simplified form, is what caused the fog on that morning. >> narrator: but shortly before the trial, the courts ordered bowater to release a study it commissioned in 1979 from its own consulting firm, environmental research & technology. in it, ert states that... doug fees never got the chance to prove his case in court. before the trial, the state of tennessee reached an out-of-court settlement with fees on behalf of the families he represented. because of the malfunctioning fog-warning system, the state settled for $800,000 and also agreed to install a $4 million computerized fog-detection system. when the fog reache

dr. george mcvehil is a meteorologist from denver. concluded that bowater's contribution to the fog on the day of the accident was less than 1%. >> our conclusion was that the fog formed by a natural process due to mixing of moist air at different altitudes at about 9:00 on the morning of december 11th, after the sun had come up and heated the ground enough to start the mixing process. that, in a very abbreviated and simplified form, is what caused the fog on that morning. >> narrator: but shortly before the trial, the courts ordered bowater to release a study it commissioned in 1979 from its own consulting firm, environmental research & technology. in it, ert states that... doug fees never got the chance to prove his case in court. before the trial, the state of tennessee reached an out-of-court settlement with fees on behalf of the families he represented. because of the malfunctioning fog-warning system, the state settled for $800,000 and also agreed to install a $4 million computerized fog-detection system. when the fog reaches a