Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:54:51 +0900
From: 小林善樹  <PEE03105@nifty.ne.jp>
Subject: [keystone 1086] FW:Japan: Aren't there similar stories a
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小林善樹です。
Abolition 2000という核廃絶を目指すネックワークのMLで流されて来た情報で
す。発信元はホワイトハウスの前で核廃絶を求めるVigilを毎日やっている
Ellen ThomasさんたちのProposition Oneという平和団体です。
イタリヤでのゴンドラ事件についてのニューヨークタイムズの情報です。
エレンさんは、日本でも同じようなことがあるのではありませんか?あったら
ニューヨークタイムズに投稿してはいかがですか、と呼びかけています。
低空飛行問題に関わっておられる方からお願いできますでしょうか?

小林善樹<PEE03105@nifty.ne.jp>

以下転送文です。

    INET GATE         INR00104          99/02/12 04:16
    題名:Japan: Aren't there similar stories abou

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 05:49:20 -0500
From: Peace through Reason <prop1@prop1.org>
To: (JapanNews) prop1@prop1.org

Aren't there similar stories about Marine pilots in Japan?  If so, it would
be good to write to the New York Times:  letters@nytimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Marines-Cable-Car.html

        Witnesses: Marine Jet Rustled Trees

February 11, 1999 -  By The Associated Press

        CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) -- A Marine jet rustled
        tree tops as it swooped over an Italian valley with a
        roar moments before it struck a ski gondola cable,
        sending 20 people to their deaths, witnesses testified.

        ``It was almost at the top of the trees,'' 16-year-old
        Andrea Mover of San Michele all'Adige, Italy, testified
        Wednesday at Capt. Richard Ashby's court-martial.
        ``Just as the plane passed by the tops of the two trees, I
        saw the tops moving.''

        Ashby, 31, of Mission Viejo, Calif., is charged with 20
        counts of involuntary manslaughter, destroying
        government and private property and dereliction of
        duty. If convicted on all charges, he faces more than
        200 years in prison.

        Ashby was piloting the EA-6B Prowler on Feb. 3,
        1998, when it sliced the cable over the Italian village
        of Cavalese.

        Mover testified that his home is on a route commonly
        used by military planes, but that Ashby's jet was ``much
        lower than they usually go.'' He said he watched the jet
        from a window in his home.

        Prosecutors contend Ashby was negligently flying too
        fast and too low -- in violation of an altitude restriction
        of 1,000 feet. The cable was hit at about 360 feet.

        Defense lawyers say Ashby will tell the jury his map
        didn't have the ski gondola marked on it and that his
        jet's radar altimeter -- which measures flying altitude --
        was faulty.

        Mario Bleggi, a surveyor working near a mountain
        ridge near Chivo, Italy, testified that he heard the
        Prowler before he saw it. Bleggi, of Trento, Italy also
        told jurors he watched the jet make a clockwise
        rotation, allowing him to see the belly of the jet.

        ``Apart from the fact I had never seen a plane so low, I
        was very afraid because of the noise,'' Bleggi testified.

        Also Wednesday, maintenance officer Lt. Col. Gary
        Eugene Slyman and Capt. Scott Roys testified that the
        jet's radar altimeter had malfunctioned on two earlier
        flights but was fixed.

        And Chief Warrant Officer Jeffrey Poncelet said his
        analysis of tapes from the Prowler showed the jet had
        exceeded its 517-mph speed limit during 89 percent of
        the ill-fated flight.

        The Prowler's navigator, Capt. Joseph Schweitzer, 31,
        of Westbury, N.Y., is awaiting trial next month for the
        deaths.



 
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