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...McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 aircraft, had taken off from Miami International bound for Atlanta when its crew reported smoke in the cockpit and turned the aircraft around for an emergency return to the airport. At about 2:25 p.m. Miami air-traffic control reported the jet had disappeared from its radar...
Daniel Muelhaupt, the pilot of a small plane, watched as the big jet turned and plunged into the Everglades at a 75 degree angle in a 100-ft. spume of water, dirt and small fragments of debris. He then flew over the site and radioed for help. "The wreckage was like if you take your garbage and just throw it on the ground," he told CNN. Moments later Coast Guard aircraft and crews from the nearby Fort Lauderdale Air and Sea Show, then in progress, were dispatched to search for the aircraft, but they found only scattered pieces...
...increase of 4.3 cents per gal. be repealed, an action that Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested Congress could accomplish by Memorial Day. Pointedly noting that there had been no Republican support for that 1993 tax increase, Dole declared on the Senate floor, "We believe, with the skyrocketing prices of gasoline, jet fuel and other fuels, that the most certain way to give consumers relief is to repeal...
...leaders also reached common ground on a number of other issues, including increased communication and cooperation in developing nuclear energy. Increasing the $5.5 billion in trade between the two countries was a top priority for both men. China has already agreed to spend $1 billion to buy 72 Russian jet fighters. "Russia has a lot to offer China in terms of aircraft, military, nuclear and satellite technology," FlorCruz says. "China offers Russia a source of raw material, consumer goods and possible labor...
...linking ABC TV shows, Disney movies, theme parks and merchandise. "The Disney marketing machine will take over, and no network has ever had access to anything like that before," says International Creative Management agent Alan Berger. "General Electric does not paint the name of NBC's shows on their jet engines...