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NEWS
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2006
INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Local residents look at the crash site of Russian Tupolev Tu-154 plane near the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, about 400 miles (640 kilometers) east of Kiev yesterday. A Russian passenger jet crashed in eastern Ukraine just minutes after sending a distress signal during a severe thunderstorm on Tuesday, killing all 170 people on board, officials said. Dozens of children were among the victims.
Plane crash kills all passengers
BY SERGEI VENYAVSKY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SUKHA BALKA, Ukraine — A Russian passenger jet crashed during a thunderstorm just minutes after sending a distress signal on Tuesday, killing all 170 people on board, including dozens of children.
Emergency officials said preliminary information led them to believe that weather — not terrorism — caused the Pulkovo Airlines' Tu-154 to plummet to the ground in what was the third passenger plane crash involving Russia's aviation industry this year.
"Nobody survived," Mykhaylo Korsakov, spokesman for the Donetsk department of the Emergency Situations Ministry, told The Associated Press.
Ukrainian officials said a storm with high winds, driving rain and lightning was raging through the
region at the time. Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova, citing information from her Ukrainian counterparts, said the plane was likely hit by lightning.
Korsakov said the pilot asked to make an emergency landing before disappearing from the radar screens at around 2:30 p.m.
The Tu-154 was en route from the Russian Black Sea resort of Anapa to St. Petersburg when it ran into trouble. Two minutes after the crew sent a distress signal, it dropped off the radar, said Russian emergency official Yulia Stadnikova.
Residents of Sukha Balka, a village north of Donetsk and some 400 miles east of Kiev, found part of the plane's tail section and still-burning pieces of debris in a swampy field. Television footage showed scorched, smoldering land covered in small pieces of wreckage. Thick white
smoke hung over the debris.
Of the 170 people on board, 45 were children, Pulkovo Airlines deputy director Anatoly Samoshin told reporters at the St. Petersburg airport. The list of passengers, most of whom were from St. Petersburg, appeared to include many families.
Investigators were searching for the flight data recorders commonly called black boxes.
Samoshin said the pilot decided to climb about 3,300 feet to try to get above the storm. But as the plane ascended from 29,500 to 36,000 feet, the pilot sent the first distress signal. Later, the pilot sent two more distress signals, the last from 9,800 feet, he said.
"The only known fact is that the weather was bad, there was a strong thunderstorm and poor visibility," Ukrainian emergency official Leonid Kastorsky told Russias NTV at the site of the crash.
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"We're here to give back to the community," said Chris Reis, Kansas City, Mo., junior and president of the Black Student Union. "I think the best way is to start with people who don't have anything."
He said the group was trying to get more involved outside of campus. He and friend Ashley Coleman have volunteered overnight at the shelter before.
Coleman, Shawnee junior, said they woke up in the morning and sang with the people at the shelter. They wanted to raise awareness and combat stereotypes about homelessness.
The Black Student Union had been spreading the word about the shelter for several months, and spent the past week gathering donations and putting together supplies for people of the shelter.
They collected from family and friends as well as their own closets.
A member of the group introduced herself to the woman wearing the red cap. She warned the woman that she better go get some enchiladas before they ran out. The woman smiled and agreed, but didn't budge from her spot at the front of the crowd gathered by the gospel group.
"It sounds so good," she said.
Their next volunteer project will be to help out with Habitat for Humanity, "We just want to do more and be a group not just for fun, but for community service" Reine said.
Edited by Mindy Ricketts
Kansan staff writer Darla Slipke can be contacted at dslipke@kansan.com.
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Michelle Tran, senior, above, and Michelle Rissky, senior, sign a copy of the Women of Distinction calendar before a reception to recognize the 21 women on the calendar Tuesday evening in the Malott Room of the Kansas Union. Tran and Rissky were both recognized on the calendar. The calendar focused on women's academic achievements as well as community and campus involvement.
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Michelle Rissky, senior biology major and pre-med student who's on this year's calendar, said it validates what she stands for.
"I think the calendar exists because it's one of the few forms of trans-media around that recognizes women for more than just being a pretty face," Risky said.
Calendar nominations areadvertised by the Women's Resource Center. People are encouraged to
nominate women for the calendar and a committee of students, staff, and faculty decide who will be on it. Rose-Mockry said about 75 percent of the women on the calendar are students.
There will be 5,000 copies of the calendar printed. They are available free at the Burge Union, Jayhawk Bookstore, Kansas Union and other places around campus.
Kansan staff writer Anna Faltermeier can be contacted at afaltermeier@kansan.com.
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Two people killed during charity ride for slain police
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COVINGTON, Ind. — A van accompanying bicyclists riding to raise money for slain police officers was struck by a truck and spun into the group, killing a state trooper and a retired sheriff's official, authorities said. Another cyclist was injured.
BY KEN KUSMER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Killed were state police Lt. Gary Dudley and Gary Martin, who had retired in April as chief of the Lake County Sheriff's Department. The
The van, which was marked with a large banner that read "Caution Cyclists Ahead," had been traveling with the group of 10 current and retired police officers and another man on Indiana 63 near the Illinois state line when it was hit by the truck, police said.
Southbound lanes of Indiana 63 about 50 miles north of Terre Haute were closed Tuesday afternoon. A crumbled red bicycle was in the roadway, along with water bottles, a helmet, shoes and other bikes.
The drivers of the two vehicles also were injured, Watts said.
About 30 bicyclists from several police agencies planned to ride portions of 1,100 miles over 13 days, while eight were planning to trek the entire route.
The ride was to end Aug. 28 in Indianapolis.
injured cyclist was airlifted to an Illinois hospital, state police Sgt. Joe Watts said.
Martin, 63, was an avid cyclist who had retired from the Gary Police Department and was named in 2002 to the No. 2 position in the
Lake County Sheriff's Department, the department said.
Karen Shelton, director of operations for the Indiana Troopers Association, said the group hosted the riders last week.
"They were all very upbeat when they were here Friday night," she said. "They do this on their own time which I think is admirable."
Watts said the riders were determined to finish.
Money raised supports Indiana Concerns of Police Survivors, which provides support for families of officers killed in the line of duty and helps send them to Washington, D.C., for annual memorial services.
"My understanding is the ride will continue," he said. "I am sure the officers would not want it any other way."
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CRIME Officers shoot and kill knife-wielding man
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Officers responding to a disturbance shot and killed a man who lunged at them with a knife, police said.
The shooting happened about 1:45 p.m. Monday. John P. Arzola, 34, whom police believed was from Kansas City, Mo., was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police spokeswoman Jackie Waters said the officers were called to Union Pacific Railroad property by workers there. They found Arzola outside his sport utility vehicle, which was parked on some tracks.
Arzola was acting strangely and throwing items out of the vehicle, Waters said.
"He was waving the knife around," she said. "The officers were trying to get him to put the knife down. He continued to refuse. He lunged at the officers, and the officers then were forced to shoot to defend themselves."
There were two or three officers on the scene, Waters said, but it was not immediately clear how many of them shot at Arzola.
The officers had asked for another officer with a stun gun to come to the scene to help subdue Arzola, Waters said. The shooting happened before someone with a stun gun could reach the scene.
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