Ok, On Fox TV News about thirty or more minutes ago they flashed a blurb about another crash (with how many dead-don't remember). I searched their website, which is screwed up by the way, not there. Searched AP national and regional. Not there. Anyone else see this? Post a link?

-- canthappen (n@ysayer.com), February 24, 2000

Answers

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000223/wl/zimbabwe_crash_landing_1.h tml

EgyptAir Jet Crash-Lands in Zimbabwe

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - An engine on an EgyptAir jet hit the runway and fell off the plane during a landing in bad weather at Harare airport, the airline said today. There were no serious injuries reported among the 76 passengers.

Eight passengers were admitted to hospital with ``minor injuries as a result of the evacuation,'' which happened late Tuesday, EgyptAir said in a statement from Cairo, Egypt. No details were reported about the crew of Flight 880.

Tuesday night's accident is the second involving an EgyptAir Boeing 767 in four months. On Oct. 31, an EgyptAir Boeing 767 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off the eastern United States, killing all 217 people aboard. Investigations into that crash are continuing.

-- Helium (HeliumAvid@yahoo.com), February 24, 2000.

Published Thursday, February 24, 2000

Three dead in plane crash south of Moorhead

By JOHN MacDONALD / Associated Press Writer.

Boone, Iowa, sted Sioux Falls, S.D.; ADDS detail from scene; ADDS

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) -- A small plane flying from Boone, Iowa, to Fargo, N.D., crashed south of this northwestern Minnesota city in heavy fog Thursday, killing at least three people, authorities said.

The plane missed an approach, then lost contact with the Federal Aviation Administration Tower in Fargo, said Tony Molinaro, a spokesman for the FAA in Chicago. The FAA originally said the plane had come from Sioux Falls, S.D.

The pilot contacted the tower at the Hector International Airport and was preparing for an instrument approach, said Clay County Sheriff Larry Costello. The tower contacted Costello shortly after 11 a.m., saying the plane had disappeared on radar and lost radio contact.

The twin-engine Beechcraft Baron crashed into a muddy field about five miles south of Moorhead. Three bodies were thrown clear of the wreckage, which was scattered over about 200 yards.

Costello said the FAA reported the plane was westbound but appeared to have hit the ground in a southwesterly direction.

Because of the fog, which at times made it difficult to see investigators about 100 yards away in the wreckage, an FAA investigator was not expected at the scene until Friday, Costello said.

Costello said a break in the fog helped authorities find the plane just after 12:30 p.m.

The plane seats six people, but Molinaro did not know how many people were on board. The passengers reportedly were on a business trip. Costello said authorities found two Iowa driver' s licenses in the debris.

The tail number on the airplane indicated it was registered to Winton Dickey of Alvin, Texas, a private pilot licensed to fly using instruments.

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-- Homer Beanfang (Bats@inbellfry.com), February 24, 2000.

Helium, that ain't it. Homer that could be the one, but I think this one was different. Still searching for it.

-- canthappen (n@ysayer.com), February 24, 2000.