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27 missing, feared dead, following Navy plane collision over Pacific

SAN DIEGO (AP) A pair of Navy submarine-hunting planes conducting warfare training in rough weather collided in a fireball over the Pacific, and all 27 people aboard were feared dead today. The Navy conducted an aggressive search into the night although there was little hope of survivors in the cold, choppy waters. Search teams recovered some wreckage Thursday, but no bodies were found. “I THINKE WE have to be realistic here,” said Senior Chief Petty Officer Bob Howard, a Navy public affairs officer al North Island Naval Air Station. It wasn’t immediately known how long the search would last, but Howard said the Navy would make extensive attempts to retrieve remains and wreckage. If no bodies were found, however, he said the Navy “deems the sea the final resting place.” The two P-3 Orions stationed at Moffett Naval Air Station in Northern California were taking part in anti-submarine warfare exercises when they crashed Thursday morning off the Mexican coast, about 60 miles southwest of San Diego.

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Officially, the crews were listed as missing. The names of those on board were not released. STRONG WINDS and rain hit the San Diego area overnight Wednesday. The National Weather Service said other pilots in the area reported severe turbulence in the area shortly after the crash. About three hours after the planes collided, a funnel cloud was sighted about five miles off San Diego’s Mission Beach. The Navy was uncertain what part, if any, weather played in the collision, Howard said. “The cause of the accident is still under investigation and we’re not ruling out any possibility at this time,” he said. THE CREW of a Navy helicopter in the area and sailors from the destroyer USS Merrill reported a loud explosion and fireball about 2:30 a.m., about the same time radio contact was lost, Howard said. The collision came as one P-3 Orion was arriving to relieve the other, which had just completed its seven-hour part of the exercise. Officials were uncertain how much

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Cuban MiG may have arrived undetected by U.S. Navy base

MIAMI (AP) A Soviet-built fighter jet flown into Key West by a defecting Cuban pilot apparently wasn’t detected until it began circling around a Navy base. U.S. air defense officials want to know why. The pilot, Maj. Orestes Lorenzo Perez, flew a MiG-23 to the Key West Naval Air Station on Boca Chica Wednesday. “THE PILOT TRIED to radio the tower using an international frequency, but he could not come up with it,” according to a Navy source who spoke on condition of anonymity. “When the tower spotted the plane, they tried to contact him.” No U.S. planes took off to intercept and escort the Cuban jet, which is standard procedure when

Return of Persian Gulf War troops sends lingerie sales soaring

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The return of troops from the Persian Gulf War and the anticipated homecomings of soldiers still in the Middle East, are sending lingerie sales soaring. Sales of silky underthings are especially high in Clarksville. Frederick’s of Hollywood reports a 300 percent sales surge boost at its store in the city near Fort Campbell, Ky. “WE HAVE OTHER stores that are doing well with 200 percent and 100 percent increases, but nothing like Clarksville,” said Ellen Appel, a Frederick’s spokesman. “It completely look us by surprise.”

vehicle was part of a convoy which came through the checkpoint to turn over the remains of a U.S. soldier who died in Iraq during the Gulf War.(AP photo)

an unknown plane is detected, said Maj. Thomas Niemann, a spokesman for NORAD, the nation’s air defense agency in Colorado. “We didn’t launch any interceptors. Why we didn’t is a question people are reviewing throughout the NORAD system right now,” Niemann said. THE DEFENSE Department referred questions to NORAD. NORAD has not determined if radar picked up the MiG at any point during its flight, Niemann said, but he said it might have taken as little as eight to 10 minutes to fly the 90 miles from Cuba to Key West. If the plane came in at only a few feet above the sea level, Navy aerostat balloons and other radar

The 180-store lingerie chain based in Los Angeles has had to restock the Clarksville outlet with lingerie from nearby stores, said manager Peggy Bedard. Sales started soaring at all of the chain’s 66 stores located near military bases when President Bush said troops would begin returning home, Appel said. SALES ARE UP 206 percent at the Frederick’s of Hollywood in Plaza Camino Real in Carlsbad, Calif., near the Miramar Naval Air Base in San Diego. “It’s spread like wildfire,” Bedard said. “We’ll have ladies come in and the next day they’ll come back with two or three of

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