Passengers wrestle drunken man to floor as plane lands
     SINGAPORE - December 3, 1997 00:11 a.m. EST - Passengers wrestled
 an apparently drunk Burmese man to the floor as he tried to haul the
 pilot of a Cathay Pacific jumbo jet out of his seat minutes before
 landing, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
     The economy class passenger, who was not named, staggered up-
 stairs with a bottle of whisky to the cockpit deck before landing
 in Bangkok, pushing aside three flight crew before grabbing the
 British pilot, the Straits Times said, quoting an airline
 spokeswoman.
     Three business class passengers on the upper deck leaped in to
 help, the newspaper said.
     Charles Adams, 58, a senior United Parcel Service (UPS) official
 based in Singapore, broke a wrist punching the Burmese man as the
 passengers forced him to release the pilot and pinned him to the
 floor.
     The inflight fracas happened on a flight from Singapore on No-
 vember 25, the newspaper said.
     It quoted the airline spokeswoman as saying the co-pilot had
 been in full control throughout and the Burmese passenger was
 arrested after the plane had landed safely.
     Thai authorities told the newspaper the suspect was still being
 questioned on Tuesday in Bangkok.
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       Cuba protests planned boosted transmissions of TV Marti
     HAVANA -- December 2, 1997 5:23 p.m. EST -- Cuba's top lawmaker
 objected Tuesday to U.S. plans to bolster Television Marti broadcasts
 into Cuba by sending up a high-powered transmitter in a blimp over
 the Florida Keys.
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           Woman dies after mysteriously falling from sky
     MIAMI -- December 2, 1997 9:35 p.m. EST -- A woman who police be-
 lieve may have fallen out of an airplane was killed when she hit a
 garden wall in an apartment complex Tuesday.
     Police have no idea who she is or exactly how she fell. Nobody
 saw her fall.
     "We have no clue," Detective Delrish Moss said.
     Residents heard a loud bang and went outside to find that a
 woman's body had landed on a garden wall and was ripped in half,
 Moss said.
     Police said she could not have fallen from a nearby 20-story
 apartment building, the tallest structure in the area. The condition
 of her body indicates she fell from a much higher point, Moss said.
     The woman was wearing a long black shirt and black tights and
 had no identification, Moss said. She was described as white with
 shoulder length black hair. Police estimate she was in her mid-30s
 to late 40s.
     "Right now we're still trying to figure out where we go from
 here," Moss said. "You have to put together part of the mystery
 before you even start a direction."
     Police will try to identify the woman through her fingerprints,
 Moss said. They are also calling airports seeking information.
     An autopsy will be performed to determine whether the woman was
 alive before she fell.
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            Plane crash lands in San Francisco suburb
     SAN FRANCISCO - December 2, 1997 8:53 p.m. EST - A small plane
 lost power and crash landed in a residential San Francisco suburb
 Tuesday, cartwheeling down a road and onto the front lawn of a
 house.
     Officials said the pilot of the Cessna escaped from the crash
 with only minor back injuries.
     Aaron Edens, a spokesman for American Medical Response para-
 medics, said the 27-year-old pilot reported that he lost power at
 1,200 feet and fought to bring his plane down in a slow glide.
     "He tried to bring it down into the street and he caught up on
 some power lines as he was coming in, which apparently caused the
 plane to cartwheel a bit," Edens told KCBS radio.
     "He did come to a rest in a nose-down fashion, up against a
 residence. He ended up on the front lawn, but did not go into the
 house."
     Officials said the plane had been heading from the northern
 California town of Hayward to Salinas when it crash landed in Union
 City, about 25 miles southeast of San Francisco.
     "The pilot did a heck of a job of bringing it in close to the
 street without impacting any of the houses," Edens said.
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