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Navy jet < ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE, Term. - A Navy F-14 fighter jet heavy with fuel crashed in a huge fireball into a neighborhood Monday, demolishing three houses and killing five people. The pilot had been blamed for a previous accident. Three of the dead were in a house that took a direct hit from the Tomcat, as the F-14 is known. The others killed were the plane's two-member crew. The Navy identified the pilot as Lt. Cmdr. John Stacy Bates, 33, originally of Chattanooga. The radar interceptor officer was identified as Lt. Graham Alden Higgins, 28, from Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. Neither ejected before the crash. In the earlier crash, off the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, Bates lost control of his F-14 and crashed into the Pacific Ocean during maneuvers with another fighter. He and the radar intercept officer ejected. Cmdr. Gregg Hartung, a Navy spokesman, said Monday night that pilot error was the cause of the April 1995 crash. 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I tMfoxk U.S. Department of Tranjportatiol DRUNK DRIVING DOESN'T JUST KILL DRUNKDRIVERS. Alonzo Drake, killed 3/17/91 at 10:53pm on Robbins Rd., Harvest, AL. Next time your friend insists on I driving drunk, do whatever it takes to stop him. Because if he kills innocent people, how will you live with yourself? Tuesd crashes into to flight status. That judgment was based ? on several factors, such as past performance, attitude and flying record, Hartung said. Bates' fighter squadron, VF 213, has had four accidents in the last 16 months, including the October 1994 fatal crash involving Lt. Kara Hultgreen, one of the first women to qualify for a Navy combat aviation assignment. The squadron was transferred to the USS Kitty Hawk in October. The F-14 had taken off"Monday from Nashville International base at the Miramar Naval Air Station near San Diego. The fireball could be seen for miles from the wooded, working-class neighborhood of brick homes where the crash occurred under overcast skies. "One guy was just sitting in his couch. He never had a chance. They were all just sitting where they were," said firefighter James Dean. \ The fighter jet hit one house, engulfing homes to either side in flames and littering the neighborhood with plane parts. Pieces of an engine sat in in a yard across the street; another part of the plane rested 1 in a tree. 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Monday, helping her husband get to or quarter to 1 iin Ar\riAiAf. - 113 uva.Mii a appjuiLiiiGiiL. gone (to the doc The couple and a family friend One neigh vere killed when a Navy fighter jet Newsom, a rei m a training fliglit crashed into their leader in the n lome 2 172 miles south of Nashville running battle International Airport. Also killed airport, which h vere two crew members aboard the for ^ Tennesse F-14 heading back to California. The Fed Kenny Newsom, 37, left work as soon Administration; is he heard about the crash near his ^ Newsom's fi Darents' home. He knew they were the sound, lead as soon as he rounded a corner was so md saw their flattened home. gnd everything 'I knew it was bad. Fm in awe," he be got taken oul >aid. "I don't know what I feel." Bartlett, whos< Mrs. Newsom, 63, had taken the street ?He pro lay off from her job at a fast-food g0t bit." estaurant to take her 66-year-old what shape it was, and then this huge fireball eri FINAN $11,700 quested for 1996-97. Business i - Graduate I 903 - Assoriatia ssociation 4370 ^ $31,91 ing Society 975 Theco ndergrad society 525 about $15! 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The plane crashed immediately known.' i.m. a team of investigate tppened at 12 o'clock Elnw Newsom, 6( , they would've been Newsom, 63, were ki] tor's)," Newsom said. police said. A visitinj bor said the elder Wair, 53, also was ki tired welder, was a Kenny Newsom, 3 eighborhood's long- as he heard about th( c i i ; agonist nuisc nuiii Knew nis parents we as an adjacent facility he saw their flattene e Air National Guard. The couple were n eralAviation of Joel and Anita Oe had put a microphone work well before the ont yard to monitor house was destroyed "I feel very fortun vocal in protesting us was hone. We lost t , so it's kind of ironic two great people. Tha ; like that," said Steve is now," Joel Oeschle j house is across the Neva Hammonds bably never knew he engine landed in her mile from the crasl immediately clear w] landed before the pli . , ,,, , . afterward, ipted and the heat came a r wusc ICE continued from page 1 "It (thi portion of c Masters in International from stud Student Association, $14,715 they're acc i Student Association, $18,174 by operatu n of African-American Students said. 53 -Carolina Debate. - Halkr s mmittee must cut a total of for WUSC i 5,000 from the total requests out and h, ved from the organizations. "If the he $750,000 is allocated, the then the ur g amount is attributed to a to liability nallocated reserve, about 10 Haller sai or $100,000 goes to an there. B ative fee and about $300,000 obligation d salaries that "directly affect already pa rvices," Carothers said. Accord nate Finance Committee will $4,400 a mi rday to make decisions as to out. l the 71 organizations will "Everyl tie committee will post their said. "It wa l the SG office window Monday, thing start ;y will hear appeals from the Brewer. 3ns Wednesday, Feb. 7. Tuesday, si SG decisioi "Ihav< funds) fro haven't se< Ijustreallj Student G hasn't don Brewei doesn't ne< *+ * J f V W.' & T m i WmlM l!l< Cat ,reak Special ^ 25 personalized gradue h coupon 33.75) (plus 5% SI Plus , Gown & Tassel wi st Graduate Gowns Add $10oo ap, gown & tassel with purchas its. All for $33.75 with this cou Expires March 1,1996. R[n0 Special's.' it on 10K or 14K Class 5 off any ring order pa 3 ood, kills five my car," said Don The crash site is 2 1/2 miles south of g near the airport. Nashville's airport, which is next to a 1, who lives a half- Tennessee Air National Guard >lane crashed, said: installation. ping directly down The F-14 is a supersonic, twin-engine fighter designed to attack enemy aircraft e crash was not at night and in any weather. Its crew Ihe Pentagon sent consists of a pilot and a radar intercept rs. officer. It typically carries missiles, rockets 5, and his wife, Ada and bombs, but the Navy said the plane lied in their home, that went down on Monday was not I friend, Ewing T. armed. lied. - The jet, built by Grumman, was 7, left work as soon introduced in the Navy in the 1970s and 5 crash but said he *is no longer in production, re dead as soon as According to the Navy, this was the d house. 30th crash of an F-14 since 1991, including t ext-door neighbors 11 in 1993, five in 1994 and seven in schle, who left for 1995. crash and whose It has a better than average safety by the fire. record based on the number of "class A ate that neither of mishaps" per 100,000 flying hours. Class wo great neighbors, A mishaps are those that result in a .9 1 1 I 1 .1 1 1 I *11 1 cs wnere my neart aeatn or at least $i minion m aamage said. to the aircraft, said a piece of the From 1981 to present, the F-14 has front yard, a half- had 5.45 major mishaps per 100,000 1 site. It was not flying hours, according to the Pentagon, hether the engine For all Navy tactical aircraft over the me went down or same period, there were 6.03 major accidents per 100,000 flying hours. continued from page 1 2 phone bill) is a major operate "as long as you wanted to >ur budget which comes without those type of funds." ent activity fees, and "To operate the radio station, umulating further bills there's no expenditure of activity ig at this time," Lofton funds. The university furnishes electricity. There's no payments aid most of what it takes on equipment," Brewer said, to be on air is contracted SG Vice President Darcie as already been paid. Shively said SG was under the university didn't pay, impression that they were in control liversity would be subject of the situation and had agreed to on those contracts." release some monev to the station id. "The freeze is still for operational costs, at t)ie contractual "We felt like that (going on-air s are considered to be again) was not the right thing to id." do. Right now they're operating ing to Haller, around without an executive board," Shively mth has been contracted said. "Ifs not like we want the issue to be us against the administration, thing was paid," Haller We want to resolve the situation, is paid before this whole "There's a major lack of ;ed." communication and that's why we , who will be interviewed want to sit down with everyone aid he didn't know if the and tiy to figure out what's going a had frozen the funds, on," Shively said. 3 no idea if they're (the The task force interviews will zen," Brewer said. "I end Friday. As of now, there is a an anything in writing, petition circulating in support of r don't understand what former executive board members, overnment has done or "You're dealing with people e." who are passionate about what said the radio station they're doing, and they're not going 3d the funds and could to let it die," Lofton said. : ' 7 ; : :: 7; : . ' 77:77 Coitie see us. 5 | m I gMjjgl? * \ v-% g ... he Bamecocluum /Jlipll ikina fot writers. (/ us at 777-7726. ^ I I I ition announcements.! tate Tax) ! th your order, j ;e of 25 graduation pon! i hmbmhT VISA . Rings lid in full! . [ ]