Universitv Daliv Kansan / Tuesday. October 31, 1989
5
Jet hits aircraft carrier
The Associated Press
PENSACOLA, Fla. — A student pilot making his first landing attempt on an aircraft carrier crashed his training jet on the USS Lexington, killing him and four others, the ship's captain said yesterday.
The T-2 Buckeye slammed into the island, the same part of the ship hit by a kamikaze plane in World War II, before cartwheeling across the deck and exploding in flames Sunday afternoon, said Capt. C. Flack Logan.
"As I see it," Logan said, "he ended up in a position which in naval aviation is known as being low and slow, which is a terrible place to be when you are coming aboard a ship."
Landing signal officers radioed the pilot to add power and waved him off, but he did not comply, Logan said. He said an investigation would try to find out why he ignored the signal officers.
it looked like a battle zone," said Lt. Bruce Adams, the ship's medical officer. "There were pieces of aircraft and metal all over the Bodies were spread throughout different areas."
In addition to five dead, 19 people were injured. Logan said.
travel, Sightseeing The pilot, Ensign Steven E. Pontell, 23, of
Columbia, Md., was the only one aboard the two-seat trainer, a normal situation when aviators make their first carrier landings, Logan said. Pontell, a 1988 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., was a member of Training Squadron 19 at Meridian, Miss. Naval Air Station.
The Navy identified the others killed as Petty Officer 3rd Class Burnett Kiglor Jr., 19, of Holly Springs, Miss.; Petty Officer 3rd Class Timmy L. Garrotte, 30, of Memphis, Tenn.; Airman Lisa L. Mayo, 25, of Oklahoma City, OKa and Byron Cervis Courvelle, 32, of Meridian, Miss., a civilian employee of DynCorp, which has a contract to maintain Navy aircraft.
All four were on the flight deck, officials said. The ship was steaming in the Gulf of Mexico in clear weather about 30 miles south of its home port when the jet crashed.
The plane flipped upside down before a wing tip hit the island just below the control tower, the captain said. The wing tip broke off and was still embedded in the superstructure when the Lexington docked yesterday.
The jet's fuselage smashed into the side of the island, but the ship showed little evidence of the accident other than the wreckage of the plane, still upside down, covered with orange and white parachutes.
SOURCE: B.U.S. Navy, James's Fighting Ship, Encyclopedia of Modern Warplanes
Knight Ridder Tribune News / PAUL SOUTAF
Sean's Mac is mightier than the pen
That was the hardest lesson for Sean to learn. The easiest lesson was how to improve his writing with a Macintosh computer.
With a Macintosh, your first draft is what it should be. Rough. You can let your thoughts flow and change them as quickly as you want. As you type, the Macintosh saves them all. When the hard part is over, organizing your thoughts with accurate editing is no problem.
Masterpieces aren't written. They're edited.
a spelling check in minutes. Because your professors won't stand for typos.
Move, add, delete, or adjust everything from pages to punctuation. It's even possible to analyze your writing style! Then run your paper through a spelling check in minutes. Because your professors won't stand for typos.
Move, add, delete, or adjust everything from pages to punctuation.
And neither will your Macintosh.
The power to do your best at KU
© 1990 The Apple Apps and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Company, Inc.
The Mac deals are here! Burge Union 864-5697
12 Winners!!
10 tickets plus lunch at the
Each name selected will win
stadium for the
KU vs. Okla. State game
Nov. 4- enter 10/31/89 only
No purchase required-drawing
No purchase required-drawing-
10/31/89
Sponsored By ZUA
THE CAUSES AND BENEFITS UNION
Tis the season to get the best business computer available. And now, with a KU ID, you can get an IBM PS/2 personal computer at an amazing discount. Get the computer your future employer uses. PS/2 it!
Sample Systems:
PS/2 Model 25 package 40% off
PS/2 Model 30 package 40% off
PS/2 Model 50Z package 40% off
PS/2 Model 55X package with rebate 40% off
Discounts on printers, software, supplies .
Financing: Qualified buyers are eligible for up to $3,500 instant credit, no payments until Feb., 1990. All other Univ. & Connecting Point financing applies.