Southern California has brownouts after plane hits power lines
     LOS ANGELES (August 5, 1997 10:39 p.m. EDT) - As temperatures
 reached record highs across southern California, a light plane
 crashed into a high-voltage power line Tuesday, knocking out elec-
 tricity to parts of Los Angeles.
    The power outages caused huge snarl-ups as traffic lights were
 knocked out all over the city, fraying nerves already stretched by
 the heat wave.
    Steve Hansen, a spokesman for Southern California Edison, said
 the voltage drop across Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino
 counties was thought to have been caused by a plane crashing into
 a 500,000-volt power line at Cajon summit, some 30 miles northeast
 of Los Angeles on the main road to Las Vegas.
    A Piper aircraft snared the power lines and crashed, starting a
 fire in the brush, a San Bernardino county police spokeswoman said.
 The three people on board the plane were killed.
     Hansen said the brownout to homes and businesses was fairly
 widespread and consumers were urged to cut back on power usage.
     Jim Sherman, principal transportation engineer for the Los
 Angeles Bureau of Transportation, said the power outage caused
 1,500-1,800 traffic lights to go dark or flash red or yellow.
     He said it would take city crews working throughout the night
 to re-set all the lights individually. Meanwhile the evening rush
 hour in the Los Feliz and Gendale sections was chaotic as motorists
 tried to get through clogged intersections.
     Even lights on famed Sunset Blvd. went dark.
     Karen Shepard-Grimes of the Los Angeles Department of Water and
 Power said there had been "power disturbances" to its 1.4 million
 customers.
     The power outages came as the mercury rose to a record 100
 degrees Fahrenheit at the Los Angeles Civic Center. Temperatures
 in the suburban valleys were even higher.
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                   Search for Survivors in Guam
     Rescue workers are searching frantically Wednesday for any more
 survivors from the crash of a South Korean jumbo jet in the U.S.
 Pacific island territory of Guam. Authorities say the Korean Air
 Lines Boeing 747 was carrying 254 passengers and crew. Authorities
 say 35 people survived the crash in heavy rain, including some who
 miraculously walked away from the burning wreckage. At least 14
 Americans were aboard. Guam is located 4,000 miles west of Hawaii.
 The U.S. Navy says the two flight recorders have been recovered and
 sent to the Federal Aviation Administration in Honolulu. Officials
 hope the so-called black boxes will reveal clues about the cause of
 the crash.
                       Frantic Search for Survivors
     The crash site in Guam is presenting difficulties for rescue
 workers who combed through the wreckage Wednesday of the Korean air-
 liner that crashed in Guam. The plane went down on a hillside seven
 miles south of the U.S. territory's airport.  Officials say the
 search has been extended to surrounding areas to look for people who
 may have been ejected from the plane by the impact. The crash impact
 split the aircraft into at least five parts and rescue workers say
 it is miraculous that anyone escaped the burning wreckage. 
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 Jim
         Indiana man,son hurt in Tennessee plane crash
     TULLAHOMA -- An Indiana man and his 13-year-old son were in fair
 condition Tuesday after their single-engine plane ran out of fuel
 and crashed just short of a runway.
     Ronald Bennett, 48, and his son, Ryan, were traveling from their
 home in Elkhart to Tullahoma to visit relatives when their Beech
 aircraft crashed around noon.
     The plane's right wing hit the ground first, then its left wing
 was severed by a tree. It landed about 300 yards short of Tullahoma
 Airport.
     Officer Jim Tate said the elder Bennett, the pilot, told him he
 had failed to switch fuel tanks.
     (Before landing check list? Jim)
 Knoxville News Sentinel 6 Aug 1997
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