European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside strikes d Gletne condemns plan to move Convent Page 3 d Agency halted Auto probes Nader group claims Page 6 d marchers protesting teen s killing taunted Page 7 d san Francisco giants sweep mets sports Page 21 authorized unofficial publication Forth . Armed Forcett vol. 48. No. 141 tuesday. Septembers 1989 Good Moran a a on a Swu d 8693 a 126 killed in cuban Jet crash most victims were italian German tourists Mexico City a a cuban Jet liner carrying italian and West German tourists exploded and crashed sunday shortly after Takeoff from Havana s Jose Marti Airport and All 126 people aboard were killed Cuba s official news Agency reported. The mexican news Agency no Timex said 63 people on the ground were injured when the plane crashed in a Havana suburb. The soviet news Agency Tass said the plane crashed about a hair mile from the runway damaging 20 houses. The cuban Agency Prensa Latina said the Cubana do aviation passenger jetliner a soviet made Ilyushin 62, was carrying 115 passengers and 11 Crew. It said flight 9046 was bound for Milan Italy with a Stop in Cologne West Germany. The Prensa Latina report monitored in Mexico City quoted cuban state radio and television As saying there were no survivors. The Agency said the plane exploded shortly after Takeoff. The government did not elaborate on the cause of the Accident and formed a commission to investigate the cause Prensa Latina said. No Timex quoted radio Reloj in Havana As saying 63 people were hospitalized see crash on Back Page Pilot feared killed in air show collision a flaming Jet from the Canadian precision flying team plunges toward take Ontario after a show stunt went awry. Toronto a two jets from the Canadian snowbirds acrobatic team crashed into Lake Ontario Dur ing an air show sunday after striking each other during a Man Euver authorities said. One Pilot parachuted to safety but the other was missing and feared dead. The missing Pilot was identified As Cape. Shayno Antaya 24, of Stratford Ontario who went Down with his plane. Maj. Dan dumps by of Edmonton the 36-year-old commander of the Canadian forces precision flying team ejected and was treated at a Hospital for facial cuts and leg Burns. Witnesses along the Toronto waterfront reported seeing Dempsey s Parachute open just before there Wasa loud explosion and one plane plunged into the Lake a few hundreds Yards offshore under Clear skies. At a news conference sunday night col. Claude Thibault said Antaya s wife Mother brother and sister were among thousands of people watching the show from the Shore. Thibault said the snowbirds arc filled with a Sens of loss and had suspended future shows. There were four aircraft heading Down and three head ing up said Oliver Gross of Bra Malca Ontario who watched the Accident through binoculars. It looked like one wingtip hit the other ones Tail belly to belly. The one going Down went straight into the Lake. The other one attempted to gain Altitude and began to swerve off to the right before it exploded. We saw the Pilot eject and the Parachute drop. No Pilot came out of the other Owen James of Toronto another onlooker said the one aircraft just literally disappeared into a Complete Ball of flame and Black smoke. They were flying in a fairly close formation operating away from the main the Accident occurred about 1 45 . On the Sec Ond Day of a three Day air show at the Canadian National exhibition held along the waterfront West of downtown. The pilots were performing a stunt called an up Ward downward bomb burst. Canada s nine member military stunt team performs at More than 60 air shows throughput North America each year. The team flies the ct-114 Tutor a single engine Jet Trainer used by the military As its Basic training aircraft. The plane is manufactured by Canad air Ltd. Of Mon Realand has a maximum Speed of nearly 500 Mph. The snowbirds performance includes at least 30 separate Maneu vers. Troops could be sent to Colombia Bush aide says from wire reports Washington while House chief of staff John h. Sununu suggested sunday that president Bush would be willing to Send . Combat troops to Colombia to fight the drug Cartel if the Yare requested by Colombia s president. However colombian president Virgil Lio Barco has said he does not want .combat troops. So far the United Stales has agreed to ship $65 million in military hardware and Send 100 american trainers and advisers to the drug plagued latin Ameri can nation. On the same Day that Sununu was making his comments two . C-130 transport planes flew into Bogota Mark ing the beginning of the delivery of the military Aid Bush has promised to help Battle the powerful cocaine empires. Also sunday Barco replaced the chief of the anti drug Effort in my Dullin the Headquarters for Many of Colombia s drug traffickers. A source said he was ousted for having dealings with drug lords but officials denied such reports. Would the Bush administration be willing to risk sending in american troops if Barco changes his mind Sununu was asked. Well if that request Ever came in i m sure the president would recognize that the american Public thinks that the drug problem is so Tough and so important that there is a great feeling amongst american citizens that we probably should take even that risk Sununu said on lbs s face the Sununu acknowledged . Military personnel and drug enforcement administration agents operating in colom Bia Peru and Bolivia face some danger from the powerful drug Cartel but said the risk is part of their jobs. We ought not As a superpower to Back away from a problem like this just see troops on Back Page
