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B Bryan 1673 Briarcrest 776-1124 The Best Pizza In Town... 7^0X842^"“/ Cate et Cer 7lov. 11 itet £v thtu 18 'ents Life Sciences Independent Job Search Nov. 12 4:00pm 502 Rudder Reap Rewards from Study Abroad Nov. 12 4:00pm 410 Rudder Co-op Orientation Nov. 15 12:30pm 302 Rudder Internship Stratagies Nov. 18 2:30pm 302 Rudder ^^CareerCenter k-J Texas A&M University h,ttp://cnr,eercenter. .edu 209 Koldus 845-5139 Tuesday, November 12, 2002 THE battalk Airplane crashes into Manila Bay after takeofi MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Investigators focused on pos sible engine failure alter a twin- engine commuter airplane car rying 34 people, including tourists from Australia and Britain, crashed into Manila Bay minutes after takeoff early Monday. At least 14 people aboard were killed and 16 survived after being plucked from the water, some by fishing boats, said Alvin Manual Yater, assis tant vice president of Laoag International Airlines. Hopes of finding more sur vivors diminished late Monday, with four people still missing. The 44-seat Fokker 27 broke apart and sank in about 50 feet of water. Divers were hampered by mud churned up by the wreckage, part of which was raised using a floating crane. At least six Australians were on board, and the Australian Embassy said it had been able to confirm only one survivor. Steve Thompson, 25, of Sydney. Several of the Australians remained unaccounted for. Three British citizens were on board. Thompson said he smoke coming from the engine just before the pilot came on the intercom to tell passen gers to brace for impact. Amateur video of the stricken plane showed the right propeller was not turning as the aircraft went down. “It means maybe the engine quit, so (the pilot) initiated maybe a return to the runway. also saw' left but unfortunately he was flying so low, about 300 feet, so he decided to ditch,” said Adelberto Yap, chief of air transportation for the Philippines. He said both the pilot and co pilot survived, so the investiga tion should go quickly. Recovery of the plane’s so-called “black box” flight recorders was expected Tuesday. Thompson said he arrived in the Philippines on Sunday and was flying with five Australian friends to the northern city of Laoag for a surfing vacation in nearby Badoc. “The plane took off. It flew for three minutes, and then the engine kind of got quiet,” said Thompson, who had bandages on his toes and left arm, during an interview at the navy’s bay- side headquarters. “Then I noticed some smoke coming out of the left engine, and then it banked. Then we ended up down in the water,” Thompson said. Saying he didn’t know' w'hat happened to his friends, he began weeping as he spoke with his mother by telephone. Yater said Flight 585 took off from Manila's domestic airport at 6:06 a.m. for a regularly scheduled hour-long flight to Laoag, lost contact with the con trol tower three minutes later and crashed. He initially said there had been no distress call, but later corrected that, saying the pilots had been aiming for a stretch of reclaimed land before going down in the water. Crash kills 14 An airplane carrying 34^ crashed into Manila Bay3% leaving Manila airport. Atleas, people were killed inthecr© SOURCE: ESRI Joggers who were niiE along the bay said the pla sounded like it was ha^ engine trouble as it triedi gain altitude. Besides the pilot and;. 1 pilot, the survivors incM Roman Catholic Bishopk’ Salazar. Three people »a hospitalized while others if fered only minor cuts a bruises. The airline’s other fo Fokker 27 planes were grow:: as a precaution. Yap said Tornadoes and thunderstorm kill at least 35 in five state ichard he hap nor of 176, but the lm is as a bi impass. In 1 Inching of t !, Coke sai( ielaw into Despair: i itt mallwood. blacks, Sr lonfederate Jivil War en jitervene wf || lobs attacks and wl inionists. C Iso served 1 com mi lat tried to Jbly remove lomanche 1 tom the Br; idian [Reservation ccording tt igraphy o Jandbook c lexas Onlin With sue lorritic hist behind him. lan has a t |ampus. Th Me Coke [rased, ther (therefore, 1 Specific; Ices and h; [be chosen f ibrary titl; I'exas A&N ^ The wal refers to G This is a lit MOSSY GROVE. Tenn. (AP) — Searchers and dazed survivors went from one shattered home to another Monday, picking through splin tered lumber and torn sheet metal for any sign of the missing, after twisters and thunderstorms killed at least 35 people in five states. More than 70 reported tornadoes cut a path of destruction from Louisiana to Pennsylvania over the weekend and into Monday. Sixteen deaths were reported in Tennessee, 12 in Alabama, five in Ohio and one each in Mississippi and Pennsylvania. More than 200 people were injured. “Yesterday, we had a nice brick house and four vehicles. Today, we don’t own a toothbrush,” said Susan Henry of Mossy Grove, where seven people were killed and at least 40 were still unaccounted for as of midafternoon. ■The tiny community 40 miles west of Knoxville was nearly wiped off the map, with about a dozen of the 20 or so homes reduced to con crete foundations and piles of rubble a few feet high. a th “We're hoping that we re p he said. In Carbon Hill, Ala., 70 miles nortWj Birmingham, seven people were killed by if time storms that sent giant hardwood trees ing down on houses and mobile homes. Sheryl Wakefield cowered in her concretes! shelter and listened to a twister roar 0 ® country road where her extended family > ves homes. Her sister and niece were killed w en ‘ doublewide mobile home was thrown acro^ street, its metal frame twisted around a tree,^ ^ house is just totally gone “Everybody’s nuusc ^ son doesn’t even know where his house 1 said through “It’s Yesterday, we had a tiice brick house and four vehicles. Todaj/, we don t own a toothbrush. less Elementary — Susan Henry storm survivor Henry, her husband and two children survived after taking shelter in the basement of a neighbor’s home that collapsed around them. “It was just deafening it was so loud,” said 17- year-old Tabatha Henry. “You could hear the wood pop in the house, and that was it. Then all you could hear was the screaming and praying.” Daylight brought a picture of destruction. In Mossy Grove, clothes fluttered from tree limbs. Power lines dangled from poles. Cars lay crum pled after being tossed like toys. About the only sound was the bleating of a battery-operated smoke alarm buried deep in the rubble. Searchers believed that most of the missing in and around Mossy Grove were OK and had sim ply been unable to get in touch with family mem bers, said Steven Hamby, Morgan County director of emergency medical services. The storm knocked out telephone service and blocked roads. No bodies had been found since early Monday, but Hamby said digging out could take weeks. gone, n gone." At the now Carbon ScW fourth-grader J Rosales through a wi into the rubble ; was once his dj room. It was on - town s high school S! words, a [; dents sht disguste< months ago that the - - - , down, and the boy said he does not n will go to school now. , “I’ll guess they'll bulldoze it like th) high school,” he said. ctnrm Prw Dan McCarthy of the federal Stor ^ G wa ifl Center in Norman, Okla., said unseas ^ weather Sunday in the 80s, follow ^ front, made conditions ripe . 4 to bd twisters, some of which were e . st ' 1 g i n ofro® least in the F-3 category, with win 158 mph to 206 mph. n f tornado It was the nation’s biggest swarm from a single weather system since ^ twisters — some topping 300 mP n 999. people in Oklahoma and Kansas n \ j tw j s ters' r Broadcast storm warnings tfatP hard-hil areas. 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