LOS ANGELES (Reuter) - A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 airliner
 carrying at least 300 passengers crashed into a mountainside on
 Guam, police and hospital officials on the Pacific island said.
     In a telephone interview, a spokesman at Guam Memorial Hospital
 said reports of the number of survivors ranged from six to 29. The
 U.S. Navy Hospital and Guam Memorial Hospital were preparing to
 accept casualties.
     "We are in an emergency mode preparing to accept casualties. We
 are getting out every ounce of plasma we have and my understanding
 is the U.S. Navy Hospital is doing the same," Harry Fornas, a
 spokesman for Guam Memorial Hospital, told Reuters by telephone.
     Police and hospital officials said the plane crashed into a
 mountainside early Wednesday morning, but they were unable to give
 further details.
     The plane, flight 801, lost contact a few miles from the air-
 port, airport officials said.
     It was cloudy and raining at the airport and there were reports
 of flights being delayed because of the weather, aviation sources
 in Los Angeles said.
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            Third day of go-slow delays at Kenya airports
     NAIROBI (Reuter) August 4, 1997 -- Flights were delayed for up
 to 12 hours or diverted from Kenya's main airports on the third day
 of a go-slow by air traffic controllers on Monday, officials said.
     An official at national carrier Kenya Airways said flights leav-
 ing Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport were delayed by
 between three and 12 hours and incoming flights were waiting up to
 two hours.
     "We are moving to crisis point. We hope the government will
 intervene to resolve the issue," the official added.
     An air traffic controller at Jomo Kenyatta airport said by tele-
 phone the situation there was "absolute chaos" on the third day of a
 go-slow called to press for better pay and benefits.
     But a senior Kenya Airports Authority official said: "We do not
 expect anything to change at this point. The government and the air
 traffic controllers have not begun talks yet."
     The Kenya Airways official, who declined to be identified, said
 airlines were running up high costs by paying passenger hotel bills
 for the extra time spent in Nairobi and in the Indian Ocean tourist
 center and port city of Mombasa.
     Airports in Kisumu and Malindi were also affected by the
 go-slow.
     "You can only hope no aircraft runs out of fuel while stuck in
 the Nairobi airspace for hours," the official told Reuters.
     Officials at the Ministry of Transport and the office of the
 president were not immediately available. Senior officials at the
 directorate of civil aviation declined any comment.
     The air controllers began the go-slow at midnight on Friday,
 demanding a 50-fold salary increase from about $90 a month, housing
 allowances and government-guaranteed home mortgages.
     One air traffic controller said the government had not begun
 talks on the crisis but ..."people here are stubborn enough not to
 resume normal work until these issues are finally dealt with and
 determined."
     They went on strike in December until the government pledged
 to resolve the dispute.
     Meteorologists who supply weather information have launched a
 go-slow, increasing problems in flying in and out of Kenya.
     Kenyan officials said the go-slow forced the postponement of a
 visit on Sunday by South African Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo.
     "These people have waited for seven months for their problems
 to be examined and settled by the government but the government does
 not appear to understand the problem," said a senior police officer
 at Jomo Kenyatta airport.
     "This appears the only solution left to the controllers," added
 the officer, who declined to be identified.
     The strikes increased pressure on a government hit by the Inter-
 national Monetary Fund on Thursday halting a $205 million aid
 package to Kenya, citing concern over high-level corruption.
     Tourism is Kenya's largest single hard currency earner with
 717,000 visitors in 1996.
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