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Not, that is, until last week. At 9:41 on Tuesday morning, a Belarussian helicopter gunship opened fire on a balloon captained by Alan Fraenckel, 55, an airline pilot with TWA, and his partner, John Stuart-Jervis, 68, a retired British pilot who made his home in the U.S. Virgin...
Their balloon, the D-Caribbean, set out with 14 competitors from seven countries on Sept. 9 from Switzerland, the home of the previous year's winner. Because this would be the first Gordon Bennett race since the end of World War II in which former Soviet airspace would be accessible...
Belarus claims that information never reached officials at the military base, 100 miles southwest of Minsk, where a blip produced by Fraenckel and Stuart-Jervis' balloon suddenly appeared on radar screens, dangerously close to one of several strategic missile bases that dot the area. Belarussian officials sent two Mi-24...
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Jervis Chavase, deputy high commissioner at the British Embassy, said he learned of the hijacking when the bus drove up and stopped in front of the diplomatic compound.