European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday april 24, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 717 killed in 2 plane crashes in . From wire reports Perris Calif. A while friends and fellow jumpers watched a twin engine plane loaded with sky divers slammed nose first into a Field wednesday killing 16 people and seriously injuring six others. The Impact of the crash at the Perris Valley Airport 70 Miles East of los Angeles hurled passengers to the front of the crumpled aircraft. Most of the survivors apparently were toward the rear of the plane at the time of the crash and were cushioned by the bodies of their companions. It was one of two fatal aircraft accidents wednesday. In Atlanta a helicopter went into a spin and crashed into a House wednesday killing the helicopters passenger and injuring its Pilot police said. No one was in the victorian Era House when the helicopter crashed said police maj. . Mock. Mock said the helicopters passenger had been taking Aerial is of the neighbourhood. The victim was not photograph identified. Rescue workers Survey he damage after a de Havilland twin Otter crashed in Perris Valley Calif., on wednesday. In the California Accident witnesses said the propeller driven de Havilland twin Otter took off from the airports single runway Rose about 70 feet veered sharply and plunged. A it was very tragic. People were just dying and dying a said Airport worker Julio Henao. Among the dead were three Veteran jump instructors and three camera operators who were going to film the jumps said officials from the Perris Valier sky diving school. Also on Board were a four member sky diving team from the Netherlands and two four member California teams. Authorities did not release a casualty list. Perris Valley is Hub to one of the nations busiest and most popular parachuting areas and attracts visitors from All Over the world. An estimated 100,000 jumps a year take place in Perris Maneu vers to use lessons of desert storm from wire reports Washington More than 30,000 . Soldiers sailors marines and airmen will take part next month in an exercise designed to apply the lessons Learned in last years persian Gulf War the Pentagon announced wednesday. It said the exercise Ocean venture 92, will Start May 1 and last for 20 Days. It will take place mostly at Camp Lejeune a Marine base and other locations in North Carolina. The exercise will be run by the . Atlantic come which has its Headquarters in Norfolk a. It said Ocean venture 92 will include an amphibious Landing a Parachute drop close air support missions and the evacuation of non combatants from hostile environments. Major units taking part include the army a xviii airborne corps the 2nd Marine expeditionary Force the Atlantic Fleet the 12th air Force and the . Coast refuses surgery new York a a new Mexico woman who removed her silicone gel breast implants with a disposable razor decided at the last minute tuesday not to go through with surgery in a Manhattan Hospital despite the possibility of infection. Laura Thorpe 39, was reported on the Way Back to Bloomfield n.m., after a whirlwind trip to new York in which she taped an appearance on the Maury Povich show and was then checked into St. Luke a Roosevelt Hospital Center by or. Joseph to be tried As adult Bismarck . A 15-year-old boy accused of killing his parents brother and sister should be tried As an adult on four counts of murder a judge ruled wednesday. Michael Neugebauer faces life in prison if convicted. The victims were found Jan. 27 at the family a farm 10 Miles from Bismarck. Neugebauer picked up his Girlfriend at her High school the morning after the slayings flashing a wad of Cash and left the state with her police said. They were arrested at a Sarasota fla., Motel feb. 8. Little rascals child molester sentenced to life in prison Farmville . A convicted Little rascals child molester Robert f. Kelly or. Was sentenced thursday to life in prison after maintaining his innocence and telling a judge a i have not done these judge d. Marsh Mclelland rejected a plea for leniency and gave Kelly at least six consecutive life terms in one of americans longest child molestation cases. He was still Reading sentences on the rest of the 99 charges Kelly was convicted of. Kelly who owned the now closed Little rascals Day care Center in Edenton was found guilty wednesday of sexually abusing 12 children Ages 4 to 7. Kelly 44, faced up to 40 life terms plus 590 years in prison. As his sentencing hearing got under Way thursday morning prosecutors asked for 12 life terms one for each child he was convicted of molesting. Mike Spivey his lawyer asked Mclelland to consider Kelly a prior clean criminal record and Good reputation in the Community and give him a lenient sentence. A when i went to jail. I was accused of Many Many things none of which i have done a Kelly told the judge. He has been jailed since his 1989 arrest. A i am innocent a he said. �?o1 have not done these Many of the children who testified in the Case were in the courtroom As the sentences were read. He was found guilty of rape taking indecent liberties sexual offence and crimes against nature. The sole acquittal among the 100 counts against Kelly involved allegations he had sex with his wife in front of a child. Many parents of the victims returned to the courtroom thursday for the sentencing some with their children. Katherine Harris the jury for woman also came Back for the sentencing. The verdict returned after 14 Days of deliberation a state record ended the longest and most expensive criminal trial in North Carolina history one that a been compared to the Mcmartin pre school Case in Manhattan Beach Calif. Kelly a trial began in August and is estimated to have Cost More than $1.2 million in court expenses. The trial was moved 85 Miles West from Edenton because of pretrial publicity. The Mcmartin Case involved an 18-month preliminary hearing and two trials a one of nearly three years a and Cost More than $13.5 million a . Record for a criminal proceeding. Raymond Buckey and six others ultimately were cleared. On wednesday prosecutor Nancy Lamb and the mothers of the victims burst into tears after the verdict. Kelly briefly closed his eyes As it was read. His wife Elizabeth cried. She and five others Are awaiting trial on charges of sexually abusing children at the Center. After wednesdays verdict Kelly was led away in chains before a crowd of excited parents. A a in la go to prison and fight it from there Quot he said. A a in a Texas killer assists executioners Huntsville Texas a a Holdup Man who fatally shot a furniture store owner 16 years ago was put to death by injection Early thursday after helping his executioners find a suitable vein in an Arm scarred by heroin abuse. Billy Wayne White 34, went to his death after the . Supreme court rejected a late hour Appeal. A the was a habitual drug user a longtime heroin user and we had an extremely difficult time finding a vein suitable for the procedure a said Andy Collins director of Texas prisons. White had no final statement. White spent More than 14 years on death Row making him 16th in seniority among the 356 Texas inmates awaiting death. He became the 47th inmate executed in Texas and the 170th in the nation since the . Supreme court allowed states to resume capital punishment in 1976. Texas has carried out More executions than any other state since then. White was convicted of murdering 65-year-old Martha Spinks in a 1976 robbery at the Houston store she and her husband owned. He hobbled away after being shot in the Groin in a struggle with her husband and was arrested with $269 in allegedly stolen Money in his pocket. White had been dubbed a sleeping Billy because he snooze at his trial. In their final appeals Whites attorneys had argued that the former dump truck Driver was mentally retarded and that his victim provoked him by spraying him with Mace
