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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1981
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Passenger safely lands plan
after pilot dies of heart a ttn
United Press International
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The
pilot of a small private aircraft died
of a heart attack in midflight, leav
ing the plane in the hands of a
totally inexperienced passenger
who was safely talked down by two
flight instructors who flew along
side him.
John Ussery, 29, of Maumelle,
landed the four-passenger Rock
well Aero Commander aircraft at
Little Rock’s Adams Field at 5:25
p.m. Tuesday, following instruc
tions radioed to him by Larry
Cain, 33, of Arkadelphia, Ark.,
and Joe Ropp of Okolona, Ark.
Paramedics tried to revive
Ellsworth Alexander Moore, 55,
of Hot Springs Village, Ark., who
originally piloted the plane, but
he was pronounced dead on arriv
al at a local hospital.
“At first I thought it was a joke,’’
Ussery told police shortly after
landing.
“It was comparable to a stu
dent’s first landing,” Cain said.
“He bumped it once, but it wasn’t
a bad bump. He drove it down the
center line and even reached over
and tripped off the engine by him
self.
“He did a super job and re
mained calm, and that’s the key to
the whole operation.”
Police said Moore, Ussery and
John David Boyd, 60, of Hot
Springs, Ark., were flying south
near Malvern when Moore turned
to Ussery and asked him if he
thought he could take over the
controls of the plane for a while.
“Then he started coughing and
blacked out,” Ussery told police.
Ussery said he thought it was a
joke because Moore had shown
him the plane’s instruments and
explained some of the fundamen
tals of flying before they began the
flight.
However, Ussery said when he
couldn’t revive Moore, he took
control of the plane and started
flying at an altitude of about 2,500
feet while radioing for help.
A radio operator at a control
tower in nearby Arkadelphia
heard the distress calls and told
Cain and Ropp of the situation.
The two instructors told Ussery to
continue flying along Interstate 30
until they could catch up with
him. They then jumped in their
Cessna and caught the distressed
plane just south of Malvern.
Maintaining constant contact
with Ussery, the pair succeeded in
turning him around and headed to
the Little Rock airport, about 20
minutes away.
The crash-rescue unit of the Lit
tle Rock Fire DepartmemJ
waiting at the airport,
plane landed without incidt
Cain said the most woi
moments came when Usserl
to switch his radio to thcairj
landing frequency — wl
could have lost contact uitS
— and when he had to I
landing gear, which seij
affects the flight characteri
the plane.
"We kept him going a
faster air speed than non
cause we didn’t want!
out,” Cain said.
He said neither he not S
had talked down a plane l
and the ordeal had its seani
ments. Asked if he
again if necessary, he :
“You bet your sweet ass I
It’s all 1 could do.”
Man, daughter slain in homi
United Press International
CONROE — One man has
been charged with murder and
deputies are searching for two
other suspects in the execution-
style slayings of a Conroe man and
his 9-year-old daughter.
Harry Carter, 48, was charged
with murder Tuesday in the shoot
ing deaths of bar owner Craig J.
Wiecht and his daughter, Karen.
Carter was being held in Mont
gomery County jail in lieu of
$100,000 bond.
Weicht’s wife, Caroline, 30,
was admitted to an undisclosed
hospital, where she was being
guarded by deputies and police.
Authorities refused to comment
on Mrs. Weicht’s condition.
Montgomery County Chief
Deputy Steve Graeter said inves
tigators discarded robbery as a
motive and said the killings were
apparently business related.
Gaeter said, “We feel this is a
personal vendetta between a
group of people or individuals
over business transactions.
“This was an execution-style
murder with the intent of leaving
no witnesses. The little girl did
like any kid; she was covering up
trying to hide on the bed. ”
Deputies identified Carter as a
former business associate of
Weicht, but gave no other details.
A trace was put out on Weicht’s
1979 peach-colored Lincoln Con
tinental, which deputies believe
was stolen from the driveway.
Weicht had been shot twice in
the head. His body was found in
the entry to his home.
after being shot, inve
said. She apparently tried
a phone, but the outside p
lines had been cut, Graetej
Graeter said two men may have
been in the house during the
shooting late Monday, and they
and someone outside had walkie-
talkies. Deputies were searching
for the two men late Tuesday
night. '
His daughter’s body was found
shot twice in the head under the
covers of a bed in the master bed
room. Graeter said the shots kill
ing the girl were fired through a
pillow, possibly to muffle the
sound.
The sheriffs department
ceived a call before 8 p,m l
day reporting a burglar
shooting at the house, bni
valuable articles were
touched.
Weicht, 30, owned threeta |
the I louston area — the Bad
Cowboy, the Nugget anJ
Cheers.
Bicycles
mpus,
Mrs. Weicht was found in a
guest bedroom where she had
crawled from the master bedroom
Deputies said a gun was
cated at the home ol
apprehended suspect and
other guns were found atWd
house.
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Odessa schools segregated
MIDLAND — A visiting feder
al judge ruled an inequity of
opportunity existed between
schools in the Ector County Inde
pendent School District — mak
ing the district liable for maintain
ing racially segregated schools.
U.S. Judge Fred Shannon of
San Antonio said his greatest con
cern was that minority students in
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to other schools to receive a full
range of educational opportuni
ties.
“That concerns me very great
ly,” he said. “Young people at
Ector (High School) have less than
equal opportunities.”
The Ector school, which does
not provide college preparatory
classes such as Latin and physics,
does allow students to attend clas
ses at Odessa and Permian high
schools.
However, Shannon noted that
such transfers upset student sche
dules and that those students who
do transfer classes miss out on ex
tracurricular activities at their
home schools.
“This policy must have a chill
ing effect on the students,” the
judge said. “A greater sacrifice is
being asked of the Ector students
to get a background for college
than is asked of students from Per
mian and Odessa.
Shannon also said the district
most q
had assigned the
enced and better edi
teachers to the city s
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remedy is necessary in ori Police of
eliminate the inequities as! ] en t s f rc
ceive them to be.”
Shannon scheduled
hearings Wednesday
Justice Department attdl
Joseph Rich and school A y Smith
attorney Jack Tidwell to seel'
to remedy the situation.
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