TWA pilot aborts takeoff from Detroit airport after engine ignites
     ROMULUS, Michigan -- April 25, 1998 11:10 p.m. EDT  -- A TWA
 plane bound for St. Louis aborted its takeoff Saturday from Detroit
 Metropolitan Airport after flames were seen shooting from an
 engine.
     None of the 24 passengers and five crew members were injured,
 TWA spokesman Jim Brown said. The people got out of the DC-9 through
 an emergency exit.
     The fire was extinguished quickly by the airport fire department
 about 12:45 p.m., said Mike Conway, an airport spokesman.
     Brown said the plane had begun its takeoff run when pilots in
 nearby planes -- and the airport's control tower -- told Flight
 349's pilot that flames were shooting from the aircraft's right
 engine.
     The pilot aborted the takeoff and cleared the plane of its
 passengers as a precaution, Brown said. The plane was towed from
 the runway and will likely have the damaged engine replaced,
 Brown said.
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                  Four killed in mid-air collision
     RENNES, France - April 26, 1998 2:37 p.m. EDT - Four people were
 killed when two former military jet aircraft used in air shows and
 for stunt flying collided over central Brittany on Sunday, police
 said.
     The aircraft, Fouga-Magister trainers, each carried a pilot and
 a passenger and were heading for an air show in nearby Normandy,
 police said.
     The reasons for the collision were not immediately known.
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