European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 23, 1994 world 1 the stars and stripes a a Page 9 team Aims to Rescue b-29 stranded on Greenland Lake moroccan plane crashes after Takeoff killing 44 from the associated press Rabat Morocco a a Royal air maroc passenger plane crashed shortly after Takeoff sunday evening killing All 44 people aboard. The airline said the aircraft was on a flight from the Southern City of Agadir to Casablanca. All 40 passengers including a baby and the four Crew members were killed when the plane plunged to Earth 10 minutes after Takeoff. Sixteen of the dead were foreigners including an american eight italian tourists and three or four French citizens the state owned airline said. Also dead in the 7 . Crash was a kuwaiti j since identified As 38-year-old Ali Al Mahmoud Al Abir Al Sabah brother of the kuwaiti defense minister and his wife it said. It was not immediately known what caused the Accident which occurred at Douay Izo nine about 20 Miles North of Agadir. R Harz tourist trains collide Bonn Germany a Twenty five tourists admiring the Harz Mountain Countryside were injured sunday when the two sightseeing trains they were Riding in collided officials said. Many people were hospitalized. Ten had serious injuries. The Accident occurred on a stretch of narrow gauge railway running through the wooded Harz mountains in the Middle of Germany. The trains Are smaller than Normal ones with cars that Are partially open. For unknown reasons the two trains filled with about 200 tourists rammed each other head on derailing six of the cars police said. Some cars were twisted together so badly that it took three hours to free some passengers said police in Magdeburg. Helicopters had to be called in to Fly out the injured because the location is so Remote. The railway operated by the Harz narrow gauge railway company attracts More than a million visitors each year. Copenhagen Denmark apr nearly five decades after making an emergency Landing near the North pole a Vintage b-29 super fortress bomber finally May make its flight Home this month. Parked on a Frozen Lake in Greenland about 620 Miles South of the pole the bomber has been Frozen in remarkable condition since its Crew was forced to land feb. 21,1947, during an 18-hour spy flight. An 11-member . Expedition team has been working on the bomber for several weeks said cmdr. Erik Thomsen a danish army Liaison officer at Thule a a . Air Force facility located 220 Miles to the South of the Lake. The teams dream is to Fly the b-29 a named Kec Bird a to Thule a then on to Montana for More repairs before Selling it possibly to an admiring collector or investor. So far the team has replaced two of the planets four 2,200-horsepower engines Thomsen said. The other two engines and the tires must be replaced before the team tries to take off As Early As within two weeks. The b-29 is in a excellent shape a Thomsen said relaying comments by the expedition members. A the flaps Are operational. They checked the fuel tanks last week Thomsen said. The bomber had taken off from Fairbanks Alaska on feb. 20,1947, two years after world War ii ended. But it had to make a emergency Landing after the plane got off course. A the navigation gear went nuts because of the Vicini Moscow. Apr a communist group plans to Send protesters to the site of next months .-russian joint military exercises in Russia and May try to disrupt them a hard line Leader told a rally sunday. The Moscow Branch Leader of the russian communist workers party told about 100 people gathered near a soviet Era statue of Karl Marx that a foreign troops must leave Russia the inter fax news Agency reported. To of the magnetic North pole a said Thomsen who acts As the Contact Between the team and authorities who administer Greenland which is Semi Independent from Denmark. After Radi oing mayday the b-29 Crew landed on the Frozen Lake. No one was injured and the Crew was picked up two Days later abandoning the plane intact in the Arctic scenery. A it Hasni to been a week that a gone by that i Haven to thought about the Kee Bird a Russ Jordan the co Pilot / on the four engine plane told the san Diego Union. V Jordan has returned to the site with the expedition which is led by Tom Hess a former army Pilot from Newport Beach Calif. Darryl Grcen Amyr a retired Lockheed test Pilot from Rancho Santa be Calif. And Ascher Ward an air plane restoration specialist from los Angeles. A a  a a a a a a a a. A a a in 1992, another american expedition excavated eight other . Aircraft in Greenland that had made emergency landings on an Icecap in 1942. While the eight planes were buried under nearly 300 feet of Snow and ice the b-29 stood nearly ice free on solid ground for decades. . Officials said they weren to interested in salvaging the Kee Bird and the Danes declared a whoever recovers the aircraft thereby obtains title for the  the private b-29expedition was organized by the Institute of aeronautical and archaeological research in a Auburn Calif., according to Thomsen. The sept. 2-10 exercises Call for 250 . Army troops to join an equal number of russian soldiers for peacekeeping training in Tot Skoyec in russians Orenburg Region about 700 Miles Southeast of Moscow. Hard liners including Vladimir a Mirinovsky have denounced the exercises As a sinister american plot to undermine Russia. Plans to hold the exercises in july were shelved because of their complaints. 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