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Show 2 Monday, March 23,2009 BULLETIN www.dailyutahchronicle.com All stories and photos from The Associated Press Up to 17 dead in Montana plane crash ; BUTTE, Mont.—A ; small plane—possibly ; carrying children on a ski ; trip—crashed Sunday as it ; approached the Butte air; port, killing 14 to 17 people ', aboard, a federal official isaid. The single engine i turboprop nose-dived into '. a cemetery 500 feet from its destination. The aircraft crashed • and burned while attempt•ing to land, said Federal • Aviation Administration ; spokesman Mike Fergus. ; The plane crashed in Holy ; Cross Cemetery. ; An investigator with the 1 National Transportation Safety Board offered few : details at a press conference in Butte on Sunday ; night. No cause of the : crash was given. "We are just beginning • our investigation/' said IKristi Dunks. "We don't ', have a lot of information \ at this time. ' ; ' "Certain family memIfcefswere contacted," she > Said. "At this point, I don't f have an exact number." t; • Dunks would not say if •there had been a distress [call from the pilot. It was [ partly cloudy, the visibility ; was 10 feet and winds were ; blowing from the north; west around 10 mph at the ! time of the crash, accord; ing to hourly temperature ! information from the Na! tional Weather Service. '. The aircraft had departed from Oroville, Cat Iff;, and the pilot had filed 2 3 Monday Snow Showers 39/32 • Summer 2009 Academic Deadline: Registration by appointment begins • 15th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide: Perspectives from a Survivor and a Prosecutor: 9:40 a.m. to 1030 a.m. @ Hinckley Caucus Room/ OSH . 255 • Queer Student Union: Dating and Relationships* 730 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ £ Union Student Lounge ' -f v ; : , « - ^ ^ f e ; , H , K-. ?.*• 2 4 Tuesday PM Showers In this picture provided by Martha Guidoni via The Montana Standard, a fire bums inside the Holy Cross Cemetery after a small, singe-engine plane crashed in an area just south of the Bert Mooney Airport in Butte, Mont, on Sunday. Seventeen people, including several children, were killed In the incident according to the Federal Aviation Administration. a flight plan showing a destination of Bozeman, about 85 miles southeast of Butte. But the pilot canceled his flight plan at some point and headed for Butte, Fergus said. Preliminary reports indicate the dead include numerous children, he said. "We think that it was probably a ski trip for the kids," Fergus said. Butte Silver-Bow Sheriff John Walsh said there were a few people at the cemetery at the time of the crash, but no one on the ground was injured. He would not describe witness reports. "I heard a loud bang," said Nick Dipasquale, 19, who was working at a gas station across the street. "It sounded like someone ran into the building." He said he ran outside to see flames as tall as the trees. Dipasquale said people who were fueling their cars said they saw the plane flying low, begin a turn, start to wobble and then slam into the ground. Fergus said the Pilatus PC-12 aircraft was manufactured in 2001. Such planes are certified to carry 12 people. The plane was registered to Eagle Cap Leasing Inc. in Enterprise, Ore., Fergus said. He didn't know who was operating the plane. I. Felkamp is listed in Oregon corporate records as Eagle Cap's president. Attempts to reach him by phone were unsuccessful. The flight originated at Brown Field Municipal airport in San Diego on Saturday evening and flew to Redlands, Calif., where it left Sunday morning for Vacaville, Calif, according to Flight Aware, a Web site that tracks air traffic. From there it flew to Oroville, Calif., and then to Butte. The NTSB could not confirm that information; "We are still gathering the information of the aircraft, its purpose, what they were doing and where they were going," Dunks said. FedEx plane crashes : during Tokyo landing ' TOKYO—A FedEx cargo plane burst intoflamesafter bouncing off a runway in unusually high winds at Tokyo's main international air; port Monday, killing the pilot and ; co-pilot and closing a major run; way for several hours. ' The flight from Guangzhou, ! China, skipped along the main runway at Narita Airport before ; skidding to a fiery halt, according to footage from airport security cameras. Firefighters and rescue r s immediately swarmed the ; plane. ; The pilot and co-pilot—the only ! people onboard the flight—were < pulled from the cockpit and taken • to a local hospital, where they were • later confirmed dead. • National broadcaster NHK -identified them as 54-year-old •pilot Kevin Kylemosley and his ; 49-year-old co-pilot, Anthony Ste; phen-Pino. ; FedEx could not immediatel y confirm details of the crash, ; spokeswoman Denise Lauer said ; in an e-mail from the company's ; Memphis office. Police could •confirm only that the two crew ; member have died. ; The plane smashed into the ! longer of Narita's two runways, I which remained closed Monday I morning with all incoming flights ' diverted, said airport spokes'. woman Misuho Fukuda. ! Ikuo Uda, a spokesman for Narita 'International Airport Corp., which ! manages the airport, said 16 inter• national flights were canceled, and j that the airport was operating with • only one runway several hours after the crash. . 2 5 Wednesday Rain/Snow Showers 42/30 • Art Now: Recent Work by U Art and Art History Faculty: 10 a.m. to 5 p m @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts • Star Party: Half an hour after sundown @ Roof of the South Physics Building • Open Safe Zone Training: 9 a.m. to noon @ Union Room 311 '; . s, • Women's Softball vs. Utah State: 4 p.m. @ Ute Softball Field •'•• / v ; ^ • Dial *M W for Murder: 730 p.m. @ Pioneer Theatre / r T :^ ^ - f ' ^ V . 500,000 expected for Pope's last big Africa event LUANDA, Angola—Hundreds of thousands of Angolans have gathered for an open-air mass that is the last major event of Pope Benedict XVTsfirstAfrican pilgrimage. Officials expect 500,000 people, but state television says it could be 3 million in this mainly Catholic country. Portuguese news agency LUSA reported at least two people were killed in a stampede at a stadium before the pope addressed young people there Saturday. Vatican officials say the pope will speak about the tragedy. Dozens at Saturday's event collapsed from heat exhaustion. U.S. IFamily says suspect in Oakland cop deaths feared jail OAKLAND, Calif.—Relatives of the man suspected of fatally shooting three Oakland police officers SH3 Sunday the 26-year-olH parolee'7 was frustrated about not finding feared returning to j a i L ^ ^ ie suspect Lovelle JMixpn was slain in a gunfight with police during which two officers were killed Saturday, authorities said. Another officer was fatally shot earlier in the day and a fourth gravely wounded after the two of them pulled Mixon over for a routine traffic stop, police said. ; • Mixon's family gathered Sunday at.his grandmother's East Oakland home, where he had stayed on and off since being released from a nineinonth sentence for a parole violation, family members said. • Spring Semester 2009 academic deadline: Last day to register, elect CR/ '; NC, or audit second session classes . • Bennion Center's Marrow Donor Registration Drive: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. @ LDS Institute Foyer • • Humanities Happy Hour: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. @ Squatters Pub Brewery Guitar Ensembles: 7:30 p.m. to 10;p.m. @.Libby Gardner Concert Hall He had previously served six years in state prison for assault with a firearm during an armed robbery in San Francisco, the fanffiy* said. While he was in Corcoran state prison, he girlfriend, they said. " Mixon's uncle, 38-year-old Curtis Mixon of Fremont, said his nephew had become depressed because he could not find work as a convicted felon. His nephew expected authorities to issue an arrest warrant for missing parole meetings, even though the he felt he was not to blame, he said. "I think his frustration was building up, but he was trying to better himself," Curtis Mixbri said. Mixon was wanted on a no-bail warrant for violating his parole when Sgt. Mark Dunakin, 40, and Officer John Hege, 41, both on motorcycles, stopped a 1995 Buick sedan in east Oakland just after 1 p.m., police said. The driver opened fire, killing Dunakin and gravely wounding Hege, Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said. Police initially issued a statement Sunday saying Hege had died but later backtracked, saying the officer had been declared brain dead but remained on life support while a decision was made about donating his organs. Reached by telephone, Dr. John S. Hege said his son was attached to a ventilator and "looks fine" except for a black eye behind which the bullet was lodged. CROSSWORD SPONSOR Frustrated with the BCS? Show it on your chest! Michigan 15-year-old dies after police Taser him BAY CITY, Mich.—Police in Michigan say a 15-year-old boy died after being Tasered by officers who were trying to break up a fight. Police didn't release his name and say state police are investigating. A Bay City police news release says officers answered a report of an early morning fight on Sunday. The statement says two males were arguing^uvan apartment, and one of them "attempted to fight the officers." . Police say officers Tasered him, and his reaction led them to immediately call for emergency medical help. He was pronounced dead at Bay Regional Medical Center. Deputy Chief Thomas Pletzke told WNEM-TV that police placed one officer on administrative leave. UTAH Utah colleges await building construction SALT LAKE CITY—A $106 million bonding package approved by state lawmakers will help finance construction of several large, long-awaited projects at Utah schools if its signed into law by Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. Bond money would finance Salt Lake Community College's Digital Design and Communication Technology Center, and the reconstruction of the Uni. versity of Utah's Eccles School of Business. Utah College of Applied Technology campuses in Ogden and Lehi, as well as Southern Utah University's science center, also won funding for projects. Last year, lawmakers turned down all colleges' capital requests. But with construction costs down and bond rates at historic lows, lawmakers decided this is the perfect time to fund them. Corrections , , ^ .. and Clarifications BUY T-SHIRTS AT The policy of The Daily Utah Chronicle is to correct any error made as soon as possible. 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