Man rescues 10 people before being washed off wrecked ship
LONDON -- November 19, 1997 6:47 p.m. EST -- A helicopter winch
man is missing presumed dead late Wednesday after he was washed from
the deck of a wrecked freighter after he rescued 10 crew members.
A search for William Deacon, 50, who was married with two child-
ren, was called off as night fell off the island of Shetland, north
of Scotland.
It will resume at first light, but the coastguard has given up
hope of finding him alive.
Deacon is believed to have been swept off the Bahamas-registered
freighter Green Lily, which was drifting out of control in high seas
en route to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, after the winch wire,
which had become snagged, had to be cut.
He had 27 years search and rescue experience with the Royal Navy,
British Airways Helicopters and Bristow Helicopters.
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Armored car heist suspect chartered plane to Notre Dame game
OKLAHOMA CITY November 20, 1997 00:23 a.m. EST - After stealing
millions in cash from an armored car, Michael Lutz didn't flee to
South America or the Caribbean - he spent $6,000 on a private flight
to a Notre Dame football game, an FBI agent testified Wednesday.
The Fighting Irish lost to Michigan State 23-7 in September, and
Lutz lost again Wednesday when a magistrate denied bail for him and
former armored car guard Bobby O'Neal Negri.
Lutz, 23, and Negri, 30, are accused of robbing a Loomis, Fargo,
and Co. armored car in Stroud on June 25, Negri's birthday. The two
allegedly looted the car of $2.7 million while another guard was
buying breakfast at a McDonald's, leaving Negri's gun and a postcard
that read: "Is Paris nice this time of year? Oui, Bye."
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