Plane siege ends as gunwoman shot by SWAT team
Oranette Mays, 42, of Cleveland, held four passengers at gunpoint on a Pan American jet at Cleveland Hopkins Airport for six hours. A psychiatrist labeled her paranoid schizophrenic while police described her deteriorating condition and threats to harm an infant. SWAT and FBI stormed the plane. Mays was wounded and listed in critical condition.
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PanAm
Hopkins International Airport
Cleveland
C-T
Bernie Noble
Brazil
Roger Denneryl
Oranette Mays
Pan American
Cleveland Hopkins
FBI
Jim Gwew
Gnew
Ms. Mays
Bolton
SWAT
Bobby Patton
Cleveland Metro
Klaus Mueller
Cincinnati
Kennedy Airport
New York
Muellar
Ruth Beck
JFK
Germany
Cleveland Hopkins Airport
Miss Beck
Pan Arm
Akron girl in security scare delays trip to Switzerland
Deidre Duker 17 and her parents faced a frightening moment at Kennedy Airport when a woman flashed a gun on the boarding ramp and fired several shots aboard Pan Am bound for New York. Passengers panicked, police ran, and the family fled to safety as security actions unfolded.
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Akron
Deidre Duker
Douglas
Mary Beth Duker
North Portage Path
New York
Zurich
Switzerland
Lugaxe
Pan American World Airways
Kennedy International Airport
Deidre
Flight 558 hostage drama in Cleveland ends with gunfire
Pan American Flight 558 landed in Cleveland with 30 passengers to JFK. Klaus Mueller and Ruth Beck hide in a restroom as a gunwoman grips a revolver and fires at a police officer and into the cockpit. The mystery man with a baby aided the tense standoff.
Lorain Mayor Zaho among 38 dead in 1984 crashes
Icy Lorain County roads caused three accidents this morning. One was serious and involved victims including Mayor Joseph Zaho and 37 others. Authorities report multiple fatalities from early incidents on unsafe routes.
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Lorain
Joseph Zahorec
Weather forecast for tonight and Sunday
Snow flurries possible tonight with a low near 25. Sunday cloudy with a chance of snow developing. high in the mid 30s. Precipitation chances 70 percent tonight and 50 percent Sunday. Details on Page A-3.
Funeral for Zahorec in Lorain honors late mayor and police chief
Police Chief John Malinowski bids farewell to Lorain mayor Joseph Zahorec who died in an automobile accident. Pallbearers carried the casket from John J. Glavna Funeral Home to St. Peter's Church for services and burial at Calvary Cemetery this morning. Photo features Zahorec's widow Helen.
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Safety Forces
John Malinovsky
Lorain
Joseph Zahorec
John J. Glavna
St. Peter’s Church
Calvary Cemetery
Zahorec
Helen
Gus Chan
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Norbert Dennerll Jr
Robert Bolton
Klaus Muellar
Duker
Jennifer
Patricia Graham
Stephens Ant
Joe Klinec
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