UPDATE ON NUMBER DEAD
   Four killed as single-engine plane crashes into building
     TORRANCE, Calif. (September 21, 1997 8:15 p.m. EDT) -- A single-
 engine airplane crashed into a medical office building Sunday shortly
 after taking off, killing all four people aboard and setting the
 building on fire. No one on the ground was injured.
                  Remainder previously posted.
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     Small Plane Crashes During Air Show - Oklahoma Pilot Killed
     San Marcos, Texas, Sept. 22 - The Oklahoma pilot of a single-
 engine plane was killed Saturday when his plane plunged into the
 infield at a Confederate Air Force show at San Marcos Municipal
 Airport.
     Veteran pilot James Kincaid, 60, was unable to pull his vintage
 Pitts Special out of the last of a series of spins and rolls during
 his aerobatic demonstration. Kincaid apparently lived in Ponca City,
 Okla., until about two weeks ago, according to the Ponca City News.
     The plane then plunged into the airport infield near thousands
 of spectators, many who witnessed the crash.
     "He couldn't maneuver away from the ground back up to the air,"
 said one witness. "The plane finally leveled and crashed on the
 bottom of the plane. He kind of hit hard and fast."
                          Plane Broke in Two
     The man, whose telephone interview was interrupted before he
 could identify himself, said the plane broke in two from the impact
 of the crash.
     "It looked like he was barely alive by the time they pulled him
 out of the plane," the witness said.
     Airshow Chairman Jim Lux said no spectators or ground personnel
 were injured and the show will continue throughout the weekend as
 scheduled.
     The annual show by the Cen-Tex Wing of the Confederate Air Force
 features World War II-vintage planes, which the C.A.F. restores and
 flies.
     Pat Phagan, spokesman for the Cen-Tex Wing of the Confederate
 Air Force, said the crash was the first in the show's six-year
 history.
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Tobacco to Open Defense in Trial
     Big Tobacco will call an MIT engineering expert as its first
 witness in Miami today in a $5 billion secondhand-smoke trial to
 counter claims that cigarette smoke sickened non-smoking flight
 attendants. The engineer is a specialist in aeronautics and is ex-
 pected to discuss the ventilation systems aboard passenger jets
 during the 1970s and 1980s.
     Another witness scheduled to be called this week is an organic
 chemist from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Some 60,000 flight
 attendants claim that cigarette smoke aboard U.S. airlines caused
 their lung cancer, emphysema and other ailments. The trial is in
 its fourth month.
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