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Show The Sait Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Wednesday, May 8,2002 A3 ALL THE RIGHT GIFTS FOR MOM Chinese Jet Plunges Into Sea All 112 on board are presumed dead; a busyport 280 miles east of Beijing. Xinhua said the plane pilotreported fire ported a fire in the cabin. BY JOHN LEICESTER ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING — Its cabin lights went into Dalian Bay at about 9:40 p.m. after the captain re“We sent every boat we Darkness hindered biggest hospitals said tos of bodies being pulled from anypeople surviving in the accident,” Xinhua said. Xinhua said mostof those on board were residents of Dalian, which faces the sea on three sides. The accident came at the end of China’s weeklong labor Xinhua Flight 6136 from pains to the northeastern city of went down in the bayjust shy of its destination, Xinhua reported.It was the second accidentin one month involving a Chinese passenger jet and a blowto China’s efforts to improveairline safety. Eight foreigners were re ported on board, including passengers from Japan and South Korea, Xinhua said. An official at China Northern Airlines said 90 percent of the passengers were Chinese. ETERNITY ETERNITY they ficial media said. Rescuers trolled murky waters for survi- government-run A “ay early vors, but expected none. News Agency said. There was no indication that anyone survived, Xinhua said. China Northern Airlines Plane crashed off shore rescue efforts. Dalian’s two were on standby but had received no survivors or bodies. One Chinese Web site, Photocome.com, posted pho- the 100m 100km could find,” said a Dalian port authority official who gave onlyhis surname, Liu. darkened, a Chinese airliner carrying 112 people reported a fire on board and plunged into More than 60 bodies had been retrieved by this morning, Oo 0 CALVIN KLEIN GIFT SETS the waier. “There is little possibility of dayholiday, a time when mil- lions of Chinese travel within the country, suggesting many aboard were returning home for the resumptionof business this morning. The plane was an MD-82 air- liner, Xinhua said — one of 24 such aircraft in China Northern’s 82-plane fleet. It was carrying 103 passengers and nine crew. officer said. Police reported they had begun DNA testing to identify victims. eral circles before plunging into the sea.”Liusaid the plane An emergency services officer at the airport, who had hadnolights on asit plummet- just returned from the crash plagued bya rash of accidents in the 1990s, has spent millions onnewjetliners, pilot training Dozensof rescue boats and volunteer fishermen, bathed in site, said the plane had broken ghostly floodlights, converged at the crashsite just off Dalian, ing on the water. into pieces, which were float“It disintegrated,” _the ETERNITY 3-PC. GIFT SET, ‘60 Liu Jiging, a loader at Dalian Port who was working Tuesdaynight, told Xinhua he saw the aircraft “making sev- 3402. Eaude Parfum Spray China’sairline industry, and upgraded services to burnishits reputation. EgyptAir Plane Crashes in Tunisia Eighteenreported dead in downing blamed on weather, blowing sand BY BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TUNIS,Tunisia — Hindered by fog, rain and wind blowing from the Sahara desert, an EgyptAir plane with 62 people on board crashed Tuesday while trying to land near Tunis. The airline said 18 people were killed. The plane, a Boeing 787, nearly split in two after ram- ming into a hill in Nahli Park about four miles from the ‘Tunis-Carthageairport. The control tower had lost contact with the plane a few ‘TheAssociated Press seconds before the crash, just after a distresscall from thepi- Tunisia on Tuesday. Sixty-two people were aboard. lot, according to the national newsagency, TAP. EgyptAir issued a statement late Tuesday saying 18 people had died and 25 were injured. being Mohamed Amine, the head flight attendant, said that he be- lieves “bad weatherandbadvisibility” were at the root of the accident. 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MOTHER'S DAY IS SUNDAY, a Retired PriestPleads Lacah to Child Rape CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A retired priest brought back to the victim, now 24, out of religious ed- jail, prosecutor Lynn Rooney ucation classes at St. John Parish in Newton and raped him in various locaShanley tions, including the rectory, the bathroom and the confessional, when the boy was said at an arraignment for one 6 to 13. Massachusetts from San Diego to face charges of repeatedly raping a boy during the 1980s pleaded innocent Tuesday and was ordered held on $750,000 cashbail. The Rev. Paul Shanley, 71, had recently been in Thailand and mightflee if released from commenton the identity of the victim. But a source close to the case has told The Associated Press that the charges stem from allegations made by Paul Busa,24, a former Air Force security officer in Colorado. Busa wentpublic with allegations last month, saying he had repressed all memory of being abused until he read a newspaper article about a of the most notoriousfigures in the sex scandal engulfing the Boston Archdiocese, ward within the past two weeks after reading newsreports about Shanley is charged with three counts of child rape. the Shanleycase.Police, fearing Shanley would flee the country, priest accused of molesting a child at Busa’sold parish. Shanley was returned to Massachusetts under tight security Monday, wearing a bul- moved quickly to arrest him in letproofvest. Prosecutors said Shanley took Thealleged victim came for- MAY 16 San Diego last week after a TV station found him. Prosecutors have refused to MS 2 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS one This Week's Super Special Make Cleaning Easy for Mom! EUREKA Steam Cleaners ¢ No Chemicals Needed ¢ Pressurized Steam ¢ Sanitizes Environmentally Safe ony °139” Spray 3.4 02. Body Wash + 3.4 oz. 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