NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 9, 1984
Page 13
Stunt plane crashes into crowd
By United Press International
TENERIFE, Spain — A stunt plane flown by Spain's top aircobat went out of control on takeoff yesterday and crashed in flames into a crowd of 6,000 screening people, killing the man and four spectators, authorities said.
THE ONE-PASSENGER Z-50 stunt plane dove to the ground, caught fire and bounced in flames along the tarmac for 100 yards, crashing through a wooden barrier into a crowd of screaming spectators who tried to dive out of the way.
The crash, which killed a 9-year-old boy and his 12-year-old sister, occurred at accident-prone Los Rodeos Airport at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands, which in 1977 was one of the world's worst air disaster.
About 15 of the spectators were injured, several seriously, when pilot Augustin Gil de Montes, Spain's stunt flying champion, had difficulty gaining altitude on takeoff and apparently lost control of the plane, officials said.
Authorities identified the dead spectators as Daniel Perez-Suarez, 9 his sister, Carmen Raquel Perez-Suarez, 12, Antonio Martin Benhourt, about 50, and Teresa Diaz Oieda, about 35.
Two other members of the Perez-Suarez family were among the injured; the children's mother, Maria Mendez, underwent surgery, and another son, Agustin.
The crowd, which included many children from Tenerife and surrounding islands, had gathered in front of the hangars for "Airport" at the base of the aerial acrobat stunts, parachuting demonstrations and firefighting shows.
No official statement on the possible causes of the accident was immediately available. But one witness, Senator Fernando Padron, blamed "rockleathery by the pilot, who risked to lose his own life and the lives of the public."
"Everything was marvelous, it was a beautiful day and a great show until
Another injured woman had to have both legs amputated at doctors' hospital.
this misfortune struck," said airport firefighter Elas Fernandez.
"THE PLANE DIVED and hit the runway. It was in flames and heading for the people. It traveled for 100 yards. Everyone was screaming and the crowd turned to get out of the way." he said.
One injured girl, identified only as Monica, told reporters, "It all seemed like a dream. All I saw was a plane rushing at us and a lot of people running and others lying on the ground."
Los Rodeos Airport was the site March 27, 1977, of the world's worst air disaster when 383 people died in a plane crash near Los Angeles in a KLM 747 and a Pan Am jumbo jet.
"It was great luck that it hit the runway first and not the crowd or there would have been at least 100 dead."
The airport was closed to all but inter-island flights after another 146 people were killed April 25, 1980, when a chartered British 727 jetliner crashed into a mountain on a landing approach.
Troops clash on Beirut's 'green line'
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese militiamen clashed yesterday along the "green line" dividing Beirut, and government troops exchanged artillery fire with Drusae Muslim rebels in the mountains as Israeli syrians flew now.
The latest skirmishes came despite agreement by a military-security committee on a "final and total cease-fire" and plans to separate the warring militiamen.
The fighting also occurred as the Lebanese army's 6th Brigade, a mainly Muslim unit, stepped up its patrols in west Beirut in a bid to tighten security.
The sound of heavy machine guns and artillery blasts drowned out the crackle of supersonic gun fire in the right-position Christian radio reporting two soldiers killed and
six people wounded in Christian east Beirut
"PLEASE BE CAREFUL," warned Voice of Lebanon, the Christian Phalangist radio that reported fierce fighting in the southern slums and the shelling of Christian neighborhoods.
New clashes also were reported in the Shouf mountains southeast of the city, with Druse Muslim rebels exchanging gunfire with Christian-led government troops.
Israeli warplanes thundered over the mountains and the northern port of Tripoli in another wave of reconnaissance flights, Lebanese radio stations said.
The latest round of sectarian violence followed artillery and rocket battles that killed at least four people and were widespread in night and early yesterday in Beirut.
IN A SIX-HOUR conference that ended just after midnight Saturday, a
The panel, a subcommittee of the "Higher Political Committee" working on long-term reforms for Lebanon, agreed on a "final and total cease-fire" and a disengagement of the warring forces in Beirut and the Shouf mountains.
military-security committee tried to arrange a halt to the fighting. It met at President Amin Gemayel's palace east of Beirut.
Beirut radio announced late yesterday that the full committee chaired by Gemayel would reconvene today for the first time in five days. The political committee broke up its talks last Wednesday.
"Implementation (of the new cease-fire) depends on the formation of a 2,000-strong force from the Internal Security Forces, armed forces recruits, retired officers and Frenchmen," the committee source as saying.
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"The violence has increased," said Archbishop Arturo, Rivera y Damas in his sermon at Metropolitan Cathedral. "The fanatic death squaws have caused
Rivera y Damas said that 26 killings by ultra-rightist death squads and security forces had been recorded by the Catholic Church's human rights agency last week, including 10 victims whose bodies had been dumped in a well on private property.
the archbishop's complaint about death squall killings marked the second time in two weeks that he has pointed out an upwing in killings by the rightist paramilitary bands. Last week he blamed them for 12 deaths.
Rivera y Damas said that members of a civil defense squad, organized by the U.S.-backed army, were responsible for tossing the victims into the 100-foot deep well near Los Mangos, a village 26 miles west of San Salvador.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The leader of El Salvador's Roman Catholic Church charged yesterday that violence by right-wing death squads and government security forces was rising, with 26 killings reported last week.
many as 18 people may have been pitched into the well and that search efforts are still being organized. No arrests have been made.
The surge compares with a sharp
Local authorities have said that as
Rivera y Damas also reported that 80 people died in combat-related deaths, including "civilians who died in clashes and operations."
decline in such killings that began last December when Vice President George Bush warned Salvadoran military authorities that U.S. aid would be cut off without a crackdown on the carnage.
The archbishop provided no other details but said 15 soldiers had been killed in combat as well.
By United Press International
It was unclear if they were guerrilla fighters or civilians because sympathizers of the Marxist-led guerrillas are commonly listed as terrorists when they are killed in army operations.
Salvadoran killings increasing
Military officials last week reported that some 80 terrorists were killed in San Miguel and Chalatenango provinces.
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
"EYES ON THE UNIVERSE" lecture series presents the film "The Invisible Universe" followed by a lecture "Stars that Go Boom in the Night" by Summer Starfield of Arizona State University at 7:30 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, American Architect, exhibit will be on display in the Main Gallery of the Kenneth Research Library through the end of July.
UNIVERSITY BAND Spring Concert with James Barnes, conductor; and Alan Gora, guest conductor; will be at 8 in the crafton-Preyer Theatre.
MASTER'S RECTIM. by Karen Hummel, sopraper, will be at 8 p.m. in
THE LIFE-ISSUE Seminar: "Nuclear Hoaceust and Christian Hope" will discuss "Is Nonmilitary Defense Possible?" at 4:30 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center 1024 Oread Ave.
GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT Colloquium presents Dennison Rushinow of the American University field staff on the History of Medicine at 11 a.m. in 212 Lundley Hall.
WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS presents "Ethics in Media" with Martin Donsky, metro editor of the Wichita Eagle, Beacon, and Jennifer Donsky, program manager for Channel 12, at 7 p.m. in 204 Stauffer Flint Hall.
KU ASIAN MOVIE Festival will present the Chinese film "Number Three Bus" at 7:30 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
"Spiritual Formation: Three Movements of Spiritual Life," will be at 4:30 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
SENIOR RECITAL by Adrienne Wiley on the piano at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
KU COLLEGIUM MUSICUM will meet at 4:30 p.m. in 328 Murphy Hall.
NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS will meet for lunch today and tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Cork Room I of the U nion cafeteria.
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"COMMUNITY AND PRAYER," the last statement of the Theological Seminar,
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