European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 29 1 the stars and stripes monday january 8,1990 j. The wreckage of a four engine corporate Jel lies at the end of a Miami International Airport runway after crashing on Takeoff. Pilot killed As 4-engine Jet crashes Miami apr a four engine corporate Jel crashed on Takeoff saturday coming to rest Only about 30 Yards from a Busy City Street bordering Miami International Airport. The Pilot was killed. The first firefighters to arrive found the co Pilot of the Jel Star l-329 lying on the Tarmac said Mcord Dade fire department spokesman Bill class. He said the Jet which was carrying aircraft nans to Dallas fort Worth scratched a track across Airport prop erty and caught Ore before slopping on grass near the main Airport Access Road he said. The wreckage with the Pilot s body inside stood intact near the Northeast Corner of the Airport but was almost completely charred by flames. The names of the two pilots were withheld. No others were aboard. A it looks like it crashed on departure. And it looks like it s about a half mile off the end of the runway Quot said Arlene Salac Federal aviation administration spokeswoman in Atlanta. The co Pilot was flown by helicopter to Jackson memorial Hospital and was in stable condition in the emergency room said Susan Cataldo administrator on duly. A team from the National transportation safety Board arrived on the scene within two hours to investigate and briefly shut Down the runway Airport spokesman Chris mangos said. No information was immediately available on the aircraft s  from Paga 1 the hurried planning could account for the unusually Large concentration of casualties. Details about last month s engagement remain closely guarded by the army s special operations come which oversees the rangers. And it could not be determined whether any of the deaths or injuries might have been avoided. But the new information about the extent and nature of casualties at Rio Halo and in other engagements provides an indication that the glowing pronouncements by american officials about the fighting in Panama tended to minimize serious problems encountered by . Forces. The Pentagon has refused to disclose blockade from Page 1 and sea blockade of the colombian coastline As pan of an Effort to help Colombia curb the illicit narcotics exports of its drug cartels. A Bush administration official saturday denied that any blockade was underway. In Bogota Colombia the . Embassy said the operation a being contemplated is Only an increase in what has been done in the  Quot All operations Wilt be conducted in International Waters far from the colombian coast a the embassy said. Quot contacts with boats and planes will follow norms dictated by International Laws and  Quot formal consultation has not been car the number of americans killed and injured in each phase of the operation and it has not released an official list of the . Soldiers wounded in action. But a preliminary army casualty list obtained by the times makes Clear that the unit that suffered the heaviest casualties was the 632-Man 2nd Ranger in which lost two killed and 37 wounded As it led the Kio Halo assault. The unit based in Fon Lewis wash., was joined in the assault by elements of the 3rd Ranger in from fort Benning ga., which lost two killed and seven wounded at Rio Hato according to documents and officials together the dead and wounded totalled 48 from the 850-Man Ranger contingent established to play the principal role in the kind of rapid deployment operations seen As increasingly important in the new army. The concentration of casualties in the tied out with the colombian government yet but the least that we want to do is establish communications. In order to prevent incidents and if possible share information that is obtained in the operations Quot the embassy statement said. White House spokeswoman Alixe Glen said . Ships had been scheduled to sail to Colombia to help with the anti drug Effort but she did not know when or have any More details on the operation. A we knew the boats were going Down there Quot Glen said. Later Glen said she had been mistaken and had since Learned that it was not definite ships would go to Colombia but Only that they were on a routine operations in the Atlantic. Defense Secretary Diek Cheney is expected soon to announce a White House approved plan for gelling . Military forces More deeply involved in the Intima Ranger unit was considerably less than was suffered by a Small unit of elite Navy seals. That group had Lour dead and 11 wounded in a successful Effort to capture the Airfield housing Noriega s private Jet according to Navy officials. Do r t he new details of Ca realities a l r to Hato clearly rank it As the bloodiest engagement for the army the service most extensively involved in the . Invasion. A the majority of army casualties came at Rio Hato Quot said maj. Don Gursh a spokesman for the special operations come in fort Bragg . Details about the extent of panamanian casualties at Rio Hato have not been released. But . Officers who led the assault told reporters in Panama at least 250 enemy soldiers had been captured. The number of . Military personnel killed in the invasion has been reported As 14. Tonal drug Battle. President Bush is scheduled o travel 10 Colombia in february for an anti drug Summit of the leaders of the andean nations. A senior defense department official said last month the air and sea Effort was expected to be enacted prior to Bush s rip to Colombia. After that report appeared White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater acknowledged that a final plans were being  under the reported anti drug Effort the Navy was to operate an aircraft Carrier Battle group off the Caribbean coast of Colombia on a rotating basis. Each Carrier group would be in position for one or two months a time Frame similar to Normal training deployments. The senior Pentagon official had said that much of the Money for operating the Battle group would come from training  Kennedy Dies from wire reports Branford Conn. A stage and screen actor Arthur Kennedy died Friday night of cancer a family Friend said saturday. He was 75. Kennedy was nominated five times for Academy awards but never won. He earned a Tony for his portrayal of Biff in the Broadway production of Arthur Millers a death of a Salesman Quot and a new York film critics award for Best actor in the 1951 movie Quot Bright  Landing Boston a a British airways flight bound for Miami from London made an emergency Landing at Logan International Airport on saturday after an Anonymous caller threatened that a bomb would explode in flight. The Boeing 747 Jet landed without incident shortly before 3 p.m., said Phil Orlandella spokesman for the Massachusetts port authority. The 341 passengers and 19 Crew members exited by a stairway that had been wheeled to the plane on a runway apron away from the main terminal. No injuries were . 45 for Bushes Washington a president Bush and his wife Barbara celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary saturday marking the occasion with a quid Day at Home before having dinner with friends and an evening at the theater. The Bushes tend to Honor such occasions without Ballyhoo and do not Exchange girls aides said however they said the couple agreed to remodel some rooms at their  Maine Home As a Mutual gift. On saturday right they dined with family members and friends at the White House and went to the Kennedy Center to see the play a tuna  robs train port Clinton Ohio a a gunman wearing a Bandanna reminiscent of old Wisl Era bandits hopped aboard a stopped Conrail freight train robbed the Crew and fled on fool before Dawn saturday a sheriffs dispatcher said. The Man reportedly wore a red or Blue handkerchief tied around his head and partially concealing his face said Gale Zelms a dispatcher for the Ottawa county sheriff s department. No one was injured she said. The 60-car train from Chicago to Newark n.j., had slopped to Check an air leak the sheriffs department  testimony Palermo Sicily a mafia inmates in a Palermo prison lifted containers of wine and toasted the assassination of Italy Stop crime fighter and his wife the night of the killings in 1982, a mafioso turning stale s evidence has testified. Francesco Marino Mannoia told a Palermo court that Carabiniero Gen Carlo Alberto Dalla Ciesa was killed because his investigations into organized crime were becoming a serious threat to the mafia. Investigators say that Mannoia s testimony Over the past month has Given new insights into the Workings of the sicilian Moo and May Lead to a several indictments in previously unsolved murders