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Two planes collide above Los Angeles
The Associated Press
Tuesday. February 8. 2000
LOS ANGELES — Two small airplanes collided yesterday, sending one craft crashing and burning onto a golf course and the other into trees across a freeway. At least four people were killed.
Golfer Danny Garza said he ran for his life.
Gober Danny Garza said he ran for his life.
"All I hear is like an explosion, and as I look up I see this plane coming straight down and it looks like it got entangled in some telephone wires," Garza told KNBC-TV. "And from then on I just kept running, thinking that these telephone wires were going to fall on me."
One plane hit on the sixth hole of Cascade Golf Course, in the Sylmar section of Los Angeles about 25 miles northwest of downtown. The other fell on the opposite side of Interstate 5, the main north-south route
between northern and Southern California.
Several shaken motorists pulled to the side of the freeway.
"I thought it was an air show," said Gus Echeverri, who was driving to work. "Then he spiraled down, nose-dived and clipped the power line. I saw it when it hit the (golf course), and there was a big ball of fire."
Fire Capt. Steve Ruda said there were at least four dead, two from each plane. No one on the ground was hurt, authorities said.
Rescuers were checking beneath the debris for more bodies and searching for a body in nearby hills, officials said.
"Witnesses are saying that someone may have fallen out of one of the airplanes." Fire Department representative Bob Collis said. "Firefighters are trying to confirm that report."
Dogs were brought in to assist in the search. Neither plane reported problems beforehand, said Federal Aviation Administration representative Kirsti Dunn.
It was unclear where the other plane, a Bellanca Citationa, was headed. Dunn said,
Both planes had been in contact with the nearby Van Nuys airport, Dunn said. One, an experimental plane, had told the tower there that it was heading for the airport, but when air-traffic controllers answered, the plane did not respond. Dunn said.
Golfer Peter Seldran said he and others heard a loud bang then saw a red plane crash across the freeway. The other plane came down just 20 feet away, he said.
"It was real scary," Seldran said. "We felt the debris come down. Some parts of the wings came down close to us."
Hijacked plane lands in England after takeover by Afghan rebels
The Associated Press
STANSTED, England — Authorities waged hours of negotiations yesterday with apparent Afghan dissidents holding a planeload of at least 150 people hostage at an airport outside London.
Officials did not disclose what political demands, if any, the hijackers put forth. But a diplomat familiar with earlier negotiations when the plane landed in Moscow said those holding the plane sought to free a prisoner held in the Afghan city of Kandahar.
Afghan media speculated the hijackers were Afghan dissidents who sought the release of Ismail Khan, a former regional governor who has been held since 1997 by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement. Khan is a member of Afghanistan's opposition alliance, which rules about 10 percent of the war-shattered country.
John Broughton, assistant chief constable of the Essex Police, said that upon arrival in Britain, the hijackers requested only food, water, unspecified medical supplies and that the lavatories on the Afghan state-run Ariana Airlines plane be emptied.
"Negotiations remain our favorite option."
said Joe Edwards, another assistant chief constable. "I will say it could be a very protracted technique. It could go on for days."
Mohammad Bashir Mahal, a passenger freed in Moscow, told reporters yesterday that the hijackers treated the passengers well.
they were all young — around 25-30 years old, dressed in traditional Afghan costume and to begin with they were threatening," he said in Pashhtu. "But slowly, their aggression subsided and they treated us quite well. No one was beaten or insulted. Relations were good."
The Boeing 727 was seized by an unknown number of hijackers shortly after takeoff early Sunday on an Ariana flight from the Afghan capital, Kabul, headed to the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
Before landing early yesterday at Stansted, about 25 miles north of London, the hijackers had freed 22 hostages in return for supplies during earlier stops in Uzbekistan, Kazakstan and Russia.
Authorities said they could not confirm the nationalities of what were believed to be 157 hostages remaining on the airliner. They disclosed that one passenger has a serious kidney illness, but said they did not know if that person was among those released.
Steven Spielberg undergoes surgery, recovers at home
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Steven Spielberg underwent surgery for an irregularity on a kidney and was recovering at home.
A statement issued yesterday through the director's spokesman was unclear on whether the irregularity or the kidney was removed. Spokesman Marv Levy said he did not know.
during a routine physical examination. Steven Spielberg's doctor discovered an irregularity on his kidney," the statement said. "Subsequently it was removed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. A complete recovery is promised and no follow-up treatment is necessary."
Levy could not say when the surgery was performed on the 53-year-old director, whose films include Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, E.T. the Extraterrestrial, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Amistad.
The Director's Guild of America is scheduled to give Spielberg its Lifetime Achievement Award on March 11.
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