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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1981
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Jet team leader
killed in crash
United Press International
CLEVELAND — The leader of
the Air Force Thunderbirds aero
batics team was killed Tuesday in
the crash of his T-38 Talon jet,
which exploded in a “ball of fire”
on takeoff from Burke Lakefront
Airport and skidded into Lake
Erie.
A crewman aboard the twin-
I engine jet was injured and taken
to a local hospital, where his con
dition was not immediately
known.
Authorities said both the pilot,
Thunderbirds commander-leader
Lt. Col. D.L. Smith, and his crew
chief. Staff Sgt. Dwight Roberts,
ejected from the flaming jet before
it crashed into the lake.
Smith, 40, of Rossville, Ga.,
commander of the performing
squadron for three years, was
dead on arrival at St. Vincent
Charity Hospital at 8:45 a.m., 12
minutes after the crash, author
ities said.
“The plane got about 30 to 40
feet off the ground and then came
back down, ” said Mike Barth, air
port deputy commissioner, who
saw the crash. “It skidded about
1,500 feet along the runway.”
“It was a ball of fire all the way
down the runway. There’s pieces
of wreckage all over,” he said.
The plane was taking off in for
mation with another Thunder
birds jet en route to a scheduled
Wednesday air show in Texas
when the crash occured, an Air
Force spokesman said.
“On takeoff, there was some
type of a problem, ” said Capt. Jim
Jannette, director of public rela
tions for the Thunderbirds. “They
both ejected. They had cleared
the runway and were airborne. ”
The flying team had performed
at Burke Lakefront during the
Labor Day weekend as part of the
Cleveland National Air Show.
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quiet again,
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United Press International
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Its
e | a |,5 latest bit of stretching apparently
ie( j E complete, Mount St. Helens has
gujg returned to its usual quiet state
and the U.S. Geological Survey
^ , declared the latest dome-building
jggdJ-eruption over.
doi*i Earthquake activity di-
gjjl minished throughout the day
)n]2 l ( Monday and at 5 p.m. USGS offi-
ie( j| cials reopened the 20-mile “red
Zone ” surrounding the mountain.
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“Observations suggest that
[ce j dome growth has ceased except
for small scale surface adjust
ments,” USGS spokesman Dick
. Janda said.
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Nervous USGS field crews ven
tured into the steaming crater to
survey the new lobe of lava on the
dome’s northeast side. They were
unable to determine the precise
size of the lobe due to high winds
and hazardour conditions, but sci
entists generally agreed it was
smaller than that produced in five
previous dome-building erup
tions.
In fact, the activity Sunday was
so inconspicuous that officials
waited for several hours before
finally announcing the volcano
was actually in an eruption stage.
“It wasn’t easy to say it was
erupting,” said Bob Norris,
spokesman at the University of
Washington geophysics lab. “It
was such a mild eruption that it
was actually going on for a while
before anybody noticed it. There
was extremely slow growth of the
dome.”
Mike Doukas, a USGS scien
tist, said during a night flight over
the crater it appeared to him the
new growth was about 300 to 400
feet wide.
Geologists have said that even
tually the dome could grow to fill
the crater and restore Mount St.
Helens to near 9,677 feet — the
mountain’s height before the mas
sive May 18, 1980, eruption blew
off 1,300 feet.
The huge eruption, which had
the force of an atomic bomb blast,
left 60 people dead or missing and
dumped up to 6 inches of ash on
eastern Washington.
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