European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes n wrangling continues Over army truck Page 4 d democrats linked to Hud scandals Page 7 d the Navy sails into Sevastopol daily Magazine d Payne Stewart captures pea title sports Page 21 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning pea title. Page 21 i vol.48,no.120tuesday, August 15, 1989 i., d 8693 a All on Leland plane dead from wire reports Addis Ababa Ethiopia . Military searcher sunday found the charred wreckage of a Small plane that carried rep. Mickey Leland a Texas and 15 others into a rugged Mountain Ravine 35 Miles Short of the ethiopian refugee Camp they had set out to visit on a aug. 7. There were no survivors. Leland 44, chairman of the House select commit tee on hunger had made several trips to Ethiopia to oversee . Famine Relief efforts and was in route from Addis Ababa to a refugee Camp at fug Nido near the sudanese Border 270 Miles from Addis Ababa when his plane disappeared in thunderstorms and High winds. Related stories photo on Back Page eight other americans including three congressional staff members and four officials of the .embassy in Ethiopia were aboard the plane a do in Villand twin  aircraft crashed at 4.300 feet failing to Clear the top of a Mountain Peak by 300 feet said air for Cecal. Clair Gilk. The Pilot of one of two Black Hawk helicopters that found the plane at i . Sunday. As soon As i saw it. Everyone on the plane our hearts just sunk said rep. Gary Ackerman d-n.y., who was on the helicopter As part of a congressional delegation observing the Rescue operation. There s no Way anybody could have walked out of that mess  Ackerman said the plane might still be missing if no for some reasonably Clear weather and the accounts of children of a desert tribe who had climbed up to the wreckage after hearing the plane crash last week. He said his search party was flying in southwestern Ethiopia when the Pilot decided to touch Down near a  said that he got out and a roman Catho Lic missionary priest told Nim there had been a Rumor searchers find wreckage 35 Miles from destination that some children had found a plane and there were14 people and everyone was dead. An ethiopian wailing nearby for a Bush plane agree to go up with the americans and help locate the Village where the Rumor had circulated he said. Fifteen min utes or so into the trip at the juncture of two Rivers where the priest had said the villagers lived the air Force Rescue team spotted the wreckage. Bad weather last week had hampered the search which at limes involved As Many As 1,000 ethiopians. 265 . Military people and 12 . Search and Rescue aircraft of various kinds. Navy cant. Stan Bloyer. Who was involved in Man aging search operations said the Pilot s intention at the time of the crash was unknown but it docs no appear that there was an attempt to make a forced Landing or a crash Landing. It appeared thai it just impacted at cruise Speed into the Side of the Moun  stale department officials were notifying next of Kin 1 Reid Cal Bush extended sympathy to the families of All the victims. Mickey Leland and the other members of his trav Eling party both americans and ethiopians were engaged in a Noble cause trying to feed the  said. I have known admired and worked with see plane on Back Page rep. Mickev u land holds a child i Iron a Tisil to s sudanese refugee Camp in april. Columbia ends longest military Mission Edwards fab Calif. Not the space shuttle Columbia made a smooth Landing Here Early sunday morning ending the longest shuttle Mission dedicated solely to military purposes. The shuttle with five military officers aboard rolled to a Slop at 6 37 . After a flight of five Days one hour and 56 minutes. Three previous missions dedicated to military purposes lasted from three or four Days  this Mission was kept secret space analysts have said that the astronauts deployed a 10-ton spy satellite a few hours after Takeoff from Cape canaveral on tuesday morning. For the rest of in week they reportedly observed troop move cols and conducted experiments for inc program to build a space shield against missiles. A super team and a great machine Welcome Home Columbia said Frank Culber Tsyn speaking to the astronauts from Mission control in  radio message was monitored by inc associated press As Columbia kicked up a huge Trail of Tan dust under the cloudless Blue sky Asil rolled Down the runway on a dry Lake bed in the Mojave desert 80miles Northeast of los Angeles. The Crew stayed aboard for nearly an hour checking the shuttle s instrument. They then went to a nearby trailer for a physical examination an later had their photographs taken. Welcome Home space Cowboy friends and relatives of the Pilot cmdr. Richard n. Richards of the Navy yelled shortly before he left for Johnson space Center in Houston with the other Crew Mem Bers. The others in the Crew were col brew Star  or. Of the air Force the commander and Mission specialists cmdr. David c. Let sea of the continued on Page 3 in the Columbia Crew at Edwards fab from left air Force col. Brewster ii. Shaw jr., air Force maj. Mark n. Brown Navy cmdr. David c. Uttama Navy cmdr. Richard n. Richards and army u. Col. James c. Adamson