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Tuesday, January 30,1996
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NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Navy F-14 fighter jet crashes into Nashville house, kills five
The Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—A Navy F-14 fighter jet heavy with fuel for a return trip to California crashed into a neighborhood yesterday creating a huge fireball, demolishing three houses and killing five people.
Three of the dead were in a house that was directly hit by the Tomcat, as the F-14 is known. The others killed were the plane's two crew members.
"One guy was just sitting in his couch. He never had a chance. They were all just sitting where they were," said firefighter James Dean.
The fighter had taken off from Nashville International Airport on a training mission, returning to its base at the Miramar Naval Air Station near San Diego.
The fireball could be seen for miles from the wooded, working-class neighborhood of brick homes where the crash occurred.
The fighter jet hit one house, engulfing the homes on its sides in flames and littering the neighborhood with plane parts. Pieces of an engine sat in in a yard across the street; another plane part rested in a tree.
"It it was moving so fast I couldn't even tell what shape it was, and then this huge fireball erupted and the heat came through the glass of my car," said Don Isert, who was driving near the airport.
Stasi Stubblefield, who lives a half-mile from where the plane crashed, said: "It looked like it was going directly down ... nose down."
The cause of the crash was not immediately known. The Pentagon sent a team of investigators.
The crew members did not eject before the crash. Their identities were not immediately released.
Elmer Newsom, 66, and his wife, Ada Newsom, 63, were killed in their home, police said. A second man,
whose identity was not immediately released, also died in the Newsom home.
Kenny Newsom, 37, left work as soon as he heard about the crash. He said he had known his parents were dead as soon as he saw their flattened house.
The couple were next-door neighbors of Joel and Anita Oeschle, who left for work well before the crash and whose house was destroyed by the fire.
"I feel very fortunate that neither of us was home. We lost two great neighbors, two great people. That's where my heart is now," Joel Oeschle said.
Neva Hammonds said a piece of the engine landed in her front yard, a half-mile from the crash site.
The crash site is 2 1/2 miles southeast of Nashville's airport, which is next to a Tennessee Air National Guard installation.
The F-14 is a supersonic, twinengine fighter designed to attack enemy aircraft at night and in any weather. Its crew consists of a pilot and a radar intercept officer. It typically carries missiles, rockets and bombs, but the Navy said the plane that went down yesterday was not armed.
AIDS drug has 'milestone' potential
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A triple-punch combination of an experimental new AIDS drug and two others already on the market is by far the most potent treatment yet for people infected with the deadly virus, researchers reported yesterday.
The new drug combination does not cure AIDS. At best, it will slow and perhaps stall the disease for long periods. Even this could be a significant advance, since available virus medicines now do little to extend AIDS patients' lives.
The treatment involves one of a new class of drugs called protease inhibitors and is still in the early stages of human testing. Nevertheless, AIDS researchers who have seen many promising initial results go sour in the past are enthusiastic about the latest findings.
"It's wonderfully exciting. It's a milestone," said Gerald Friedland, a doctor from Yale University. The key to the new combination is indinav, an
experimental protease inhibitor developed by Merck & Co. It is combined with the standard AIDS medicines AZT and 3TC.
Roy Gulick, a doctor, and colleagues from New York University gave the combination to 26 patients. After six months, they could find no measurable trace of the AIDS virus in 24 of them. Their treatment is continuing, but researchers say it is still too soon to know how long this effect will last.
Emilio Emini of Merck, a doctor, released some of the findings at the meeting yesterday at a standing-room-only session on protease inhibitors.
During the meeting, Giluck said he was optimistic about the new treatment's potential.
"This is the best response of any anti-retroviral therapy that has been seen to date," he said.
Several other AIDS experts at the meeting agreed.
"We all share the excitement of the moment that
long-term suppression of this virus is real," said Paul Volberding, a doctor from the University of California, San Francisco.
Like other AIDS drugs, protease inhibitors attempt to short-circuit HIV, the AIDS virus, by disrupting its life cycle. They block production of protease, an enzyme crucial to the virus's survival.
A major question is whether — and how quickly — HIV will become resistant to protease inhibitors, too.
Douglas Richman, a doctor from the University of California, San Diego, speculated that because the new combination so sharply suppresses growth of the virus, it will hold down the evolution of resistant strains of HIV as well.
But doctors need assurance that suppression of the AIDS virus will last. Although only longer testing will prove this, Emiini said there were hints. One patient who has received indinavir alone has been healthy and apparently free of the virus for two years.
THE NEWS in brief
Theives abduct Bert, Ernie from exhibit
The Associated Press
but were unsuccessful.
ERFURT, Germany — Miss Piggy was under police protection Monday, after her colleagues Ernie and Bert were abducted. Thieves knocked through a wall and plundered an exhibit of original Muppet puppets overnight Sunday at the Erfurt Garden Show. They also smashed a glass case, trying to rip Miss Piggy from her display,
The trio were among 36 original Muppets rented by a Danish firm for the exhibit in Erfurt, 110 miles northeast of Frankfurt.
The Ernie and Bert puppets were valued at $126,000, Blaschka said.
Kermit, Big Bird and the other Jim Henson creations were not harmed, he said. Police were investigating.
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