Remembering the crash at the gate on the airstrip
James Fennel, a GARE worker visiting a vehicle inspection lot on a military airstrip recalls a collision. A car allegedly attempted to run him down, with the incident witnessed at the gate.
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1992
Page
7
James Fennel, a GARE worker visiting a vehicle inspection lot on a military airstrip recalls a collision. A car allegedly attempted to run him down, with the incident witnessed at the gate.
Relief workers toured the U.S. airstrip in Somalia to view six feared military vehicles seized so far. Marines showcased a Nissan pickup with a mounted machine gun and a green flat-bed truck with an anti-aircraft gun. One convoy escort was hit, five died in a rocket attack by looters previously allied with U.S. forces.
U S officials press for a broad political leadership in Somalia to restore order as Marines and Belgian troops advance in Kismayu. Special envoy Robert Oakley met political and religious leaders in Kismayu, then Mogadishu and Baidoa, to build consensus.
Marines guided eighteen wheat trucks from Mogadishu to Baidoa, with Belgian paratroopers arriving at Kismayo port. The convoy, protected by twenty one U.S. vehicles, aims to boost daily aid and prove safer roads for civilians, despite bandit risks and past lootings.
A Dutch charter DC-10 carrying 327 passengers and 13 crew crashed during a storm while landing in a southern Portuguese resort. Witnesses and officials reported at least six charred bodies retrieved and survivors escaping the burning wreckage an hour later. The Amsterdam origin aircraft was chartered by Martinair and all aboard were Dutch nationals.
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