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TZARARACUA, Mexico (AP) — A DC-9 jetliner fell
from the sky in central Mexico, killing all 18 people on
board shortly after most of its passengers had disem
barked. Aviation investigators said yesterday they had
recovered the “black box” flight recorders.
“This is the most important thing of all,” Andres
Perez Zentella, Mexico’s chief of aviation security,
said of the flight recorders for Taesa Flight 725.
Dozens of investigators, soldiers and police were
searching the avocado field where jagged chunks of
the plane had fallen, hoping to find clues on what
brought the plane down.
The flight took off Tuesday from the western border
city of Tijuana with 91 passengers aboard. After stop
ping in Guadalajara and Uruapan, it was carrying just
13 passengers and five crew members as it headed to
Mexico City, 180 miles to the east.
One minute after the plane left Uruapan, the pilot ra
dioed controllers to declare an emergency, according to
Agustin Arellano Rodriguez, director of the state’s Nav
igation Services in Mexican Airspace.
“We did not have any more contact,” he said by
telephone. “We never knew what the type of emer
gency was.”
Accounts of the crash varied.
Witnesses said they saw a brilliant light in the sky
and the debris fall to the mountains six miles southwest
of Uruapan, inspector Juan Alfonso Lara of the Mi-
choacan state civil protection agency, said.
Agustin Gutierrez, Taesa’s manager in Michoacan,
said the plane
nose-dived before
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fire as it hit the
ground and exploded. “After that, there were!
explosions,” he said.
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conference the airline was not aware ofanys
nance problems. He also said he had noinfoi
about communications between the crewj
flight control tower.
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record the nationalities of the passengers.
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fered to take them to Uruapan.
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Barak keeps promise to PalestiniarNo.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Forced to
choose between Jewish settlers and
Palestinian demands. Prime Minister
Ehud Barak kept Israel’s commit
ment to the Palestinians yesterday,
approving a troop pullback from 5
percent of the West Bank and send
ing soldiers to drag Jews off an ille
gal hilltop encampment.
The land handover, to take
place Monday, will leave a smat
tering of West Bank settlements
isolated and surrounded by Pales
tinian-controlled territory — set
ting the stage for more tensions.
Barak has spent his four months
in office making good on promises
to revive the peace process, while
reassuring Jewish settlers that he
sympathizes with their mission to
reclaim biblical lands.
Palestinian and settler claims to
the same rocky hills seemed im
creasingly irreconcilable, however,
and scenes televised yesterday of
soldiers holding red-faced settlers
in headlocks could be a glimpse
into the future.
Soldiers moved in on Havat
Maon as light crept from Israel’s
coast over its plains and up the
West Bank’s layered hills. Settlers
climbed on rooftops, clung to door
frames and flung themselves to
the ground, making it harder for
the unarmed troops to forcibly
evacuate them.
“We’ll be back! ” the settlers shout
ed as they were driven away in buses.
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