I am leaving the KAL crash on Guam to TV for now. Jim
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                    Two killed in plane crash
     COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (August 6, 1997 08:33 a.m. EDT) --- Two
 men were killed Tuesday when their twin-engine plane crashed in
 steady rain and fog as it approached the Colorado Springs Municipal
 Airport.
     Pilot Gary Leroy Wobermin, 41, of Westminster and passenger
 David R. Green, 36, of Aurora were hurled from their Beech Baron 58
 after the aircraft's left wing clipped the ground and cartwheeled
 in a muddy field about four miles north of the airport.
     The wreckage was about a quarter-mile northwest of a residential
 neighborhood and about two and a half miles west of Sky Sox Stadium.
     No one else was on board the eight-seat plane that took off from
 Jefferson County Airport, Colorado Springs authorities said.
     Visibility was about a quarter-mile at the time of the crash,
 and Colorado Springs air traffic control operators told investiga-
 tors the plane was too high on its approach as the aircraft pre-
 pared to land on one of the two north-south runways, said George
 Dushan, airport and city spokesman.
     Air traffic control tower operators advised the pilot that he
 needed to execute a "missed approach procedure," essentially meaning
 he had to circle the airport and try his approach again at a lower
 altitude.
     "Shortly afterward they lost them on the radar screen," Dushan
 said.
     Colorado Springs firefighters were hampered from reaching the
 wreckage because the crash was a good distance away from roads..
     Tuesday's crash was the fourth in Colorado since Thursday and
 the second deadly one involving smaller aircraft.
     Glenn Werner, 47, and Linda Driscoll, 37, of Antioch, Calif.,
 were killed Thursday when their plane crashed in a storm near the
 Eisenhower Tunnel.
     Four people flying from Creede escaped serious injury on Sunday
 when their single engine plane plunged in bad weather into the La
 Garita Wilderness Area.
     Also on Sunday a pilot, the lone passenger in a plane, walked
 away from a minor crash near Castle Rock.
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            Engine trouble forces KAL plane back to Japan
    TOKYO (August 6, 1997 05:33 a.m. EDT) - A Korean Air Lines Airbus
 A300 heading to Seoul from Osaka in western Japan returned to the
 airport shortly after takeoff due to engine trouble, an airline
 official said on Wednesday.
     All 261 passengers and 12 crew members on board were evacuated
 and no one was hurt in the incident, a KAL official told Reuters.
     KAL flight 724 took off Kansai International Airport around 1.20
 p.m., but returned to the airport about 15 minutes later after the
 pilot reported engine trouble, he said.
     "We're not sure what caused the incident and we're investigating
 the case," the official said.
     The plane experienced the engine problem over the island of
 Awajishima in western Japan, according to the official.
     The airline was planning to reschedule the flight with a differ-
 ent aircraft on Wednesday evening.
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   Helicopter Goes Down in Southern Lebanon - 5 U.N. Troops Killed
     Beirut, Lebanon -- A U.N. helicopter belonging to the Italian
 air force crashed Wednesday in the Israeli-occupied area of sou-
 thern Lebanon, a U.N. spokesman said.
    There were a "number of casualties," said Timur Goksel, a spokes-
 man for the peacekeepers, without providing details.
    Israel's army radio said all five people riding in the helicopter
 were killed. Their nationalities were not released.
    The helicopter was one of several used by the peacekeeping force,
 Lebanese security officials said on customary condition of
 anonymity.
     The cause of the crash was not immediately known.
     U.N. authorities lost contact with the helicopter about 15 min-
 utes after it took off on a routine training mission, the officials
 said. It was believed to have crashed around 9:15 p.m. near the
 village of Tebnine, about 15 miles east of Tyre, they said.
     The 4,500-man force, known formally as the U.N. Interim Force
 in Lebanon, polices the border area between Lebanon and Israel.
 With contingents from nine countries, the force is often caught in
 the middle of fighting between Lebanese guerrillas and Israeli and
 allied forces.
     More than 200 U.N. peacekeepers have been killed since U.N.
 peacekeepers were deployed in southern Lebanon in 1978.
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