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Monday, September 25, 1995
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Air Force studies plane crash
The Associated Press
ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska — The metal shreds that were once a giant AWACS plane smoldered Saturday in the woods while relatives of the 24 crew members learned of their loss.
"In an accident this catastrophic, it's difficult to find what parts are exactly what," said Colonel Charlie Lambert, leader of an interim team of investigators. He said the cockpit voice recorder had been recovered, and the wreckage of the four engines had been identified.
The officers who will investigate Friday's crash arrived at Elmendorf Air Force Base, two miles north of downtown Anchorage, as other investigators picked through
The last two crewmen were identified, and all the families were notified during the weekend, Air Force representative Kathy Fawcett said. The Air Force released a list of the crewmen's occupations and most of their hometowns.
It was the first crash of an Airborne Warning and Control System plane since the Air Force began using them in 1977. Brig. Gen. Hgh Cameron, who saw the plane go down, said he did not expect the Air Force to ground its 33 remaining AWACs.
the rubble for clues.
The remains of a dozen Canada geese were found at the end of the runway, and an anonymous source said birds sucked into an engine might have crippled the plane. The Air Force would not speculate on a
cause.
"The official line is that the cause of the crash is under investigation, and there's no speculation," Fawcett said.
The E-3B AWACS plane, a $180 million modified Boeing 707 laden with radar and other electronic surveillance equipment, set out just after daybreak Friday on a training mission with 22 Americans and two Canadians aboard.
As the plane roared down the runway, one of its four engines caught fire. Although the plane managed to get off the ground, it could not get enough power and crashed two miles from the runway.
The plane, loaded to capacity with 125,000 pounds of fuel, ripped a black scar 300 yards long and 150 yards wide through the woods.
Mass grave discovered in Bosnia
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A mass grave filled with 540 bodies was unearthed in northwestern Bosnia after government forces recaptured the area from rebel Serbs, Bosnia's prime minister said Saturday.
It was unclear whose bodies were in the grave, but they were believed to be Muslims and Croats killed by Bosnian Serbs, said Prime Minister Haris Silajdic.
recent months as sharp battlefield shifts have sent Muslims, Croats and Serbs alike fleeing for safety.
Mass graves are "a grim reality that we will be facing while liberating Bosnia-Herzegovina," Silaidizic told The Associated Press.
The discovery coincided with word of the latest ethnic expulsion by Bosnian Serbs: the driving of almost 500 Muslims from another Serb-held town under government attack. Expulsions have increased in Bosnia as a peace deal that would separate ethnic groups becomes more likely.
Serb atrocities are a chief concern for the Muslim-led government as it decides whether to accept a U.S. peace plan, which would give the Serbs nearly half of Bosnia. Talks are scheduled tomorrow in New York.
Violence against civilians has been a hallmark of the four years of war in the Balkans, but tales of horror have grown more intense in
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