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Jun 2, 8:16 PM EDT

PILOT SAFELY EJECTS IN COLORADO BEFORE THUNDERBIRD CRASH

BY JOSH LEDERMAN AND DAN ELLIOTT

ASSOCIATED PRESS

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) -- The pilot of a U.S. Air Force Thunderbird ejected safely into a Colorado field Thursday, crashing the fighter jet moments after flying over a crowd watching President Barack Obama's commencement address for Air Force cadets.

A short helicopter ride later, the pilot found himself shaking hands with the president on the tarmac at a nearby air base.

"The president thanked the pilot for his service to the country and expressed his relief that the pilot was not seriously injured," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.

The Air Force identified the pilot as Maj. Alex Turner, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He has more than 270 combat hours over Libya and Iraq.

News of the crash broke while Obama's motorcade was returning to Peterson Air Force Base for his flight back to Washington. Turner ejected about 15 miles south of the Air Force Academy near Peterson, where Air Force One was waiting to take off.

Emergency responders who picked up Turner in the rescue helicopter brought him to a spot that happened to be on the president's motorcade route back to Air Force One.

Nathan Lavin, spokesman at Colorado Springs Airport, which shares space with Peterson, said some flights were delayed because of Obama's visit, not because of the crash.

It was one of two crashes Thursday for the military's elite fighter jet performance teams. An official in Tennessee said a pilot was killed when his Blue Angels fighter jet crashed, but no civilians were hurt on the ground. The Navy's Blue Angels team was near Nashville practicing for a scheduled performance this weekend.

In Colorado, the Thunderbirds had just finished their traditional performance at the commencement, screaming overhead as the graduating officers tossed their white hats skyward.

The jets then did multiple fly-bys over the academy's football stadium, where the graduation took place, blasting by in tight formations or looping high overhead.

There was no obvious sign of trouble with any of the jets during the performance.

Peterson base spokesman Jeff Bohn said it was unclear whether the plane developed problems while on its final approach path over empty fields. It also was unclear whether Turner maneuvered the jet into a position to crash without harming anyone on the ground.

Turner had to make multiple decisions in a moment.

"We're talking fractions of seconds," Bohn said.

Justin Payne was working on wallpaper inside his house when the plane struck the ground.

"What I heard was a big boom," Payne said. "I ran outside. Three or four degrees to the left and that jet would have hit our house."

Payne said the fuselage slid about 2,000 feet before coming to rest. He said it appeared the nose was ripped from the rest of the F-16.

Authorities quickly cordoned off the area, and a hazardous materials crew was suiting up to inspect the site, said Payne, who added he was ordered to stay inside his house.

A smudgy, gray skid mark extended a few hundred yards from where the plane came to rest on its belly in the tall grass. About four hours after the crash, an Army Black Hawk helicopter circled low over the downed jet and made several passes along what appeared to be the plane's path before it crashed.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Alexander Rodriguez, a U.S. Air Force firefighter stationed in San Angelo, Texas, who was visiting with his family, said he raced from his brother's house after hearing "a few loud bangs" and saw the plane gliding close to the ground before impact.

"I started booking straight for the aircraft," Rodriguez said. "I saw the cockpit was empty and checked for any fuel hazard - there was a single fuel leak on the right side. I heard a ticking noise that indicated something was still running and I backed off."

By then, first responders from Petersen and Colorado Springs were arriving on the scene, he said.

The Thunderbirds are the Air Force's precision flying team, known for their red, white and blue painted F-16 fighter jets. The unit, based out of Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base, will perform more than 40 shows in 2016, according to its website. The vaunted aerial demonstration team has been performing air demonstrations since 1947.

During a performance at the Chicago Air and Water Show in 2005, two of the jets made contact while they were flying in formation, and a missile rail was dislodged. No one was injured in that accident.

The group was in a diamond formation when a 4-foot-long missile rail came loose from the wing of one of their jets. The carbon fiber object fell into Lake Michigan, roughly 2,500 feet from where spectators had gathered to watch the show. No one was hurt.

Two years earlier, a Thunderbird jet crashed at an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho as about 85,000 spectators looked on. The pilot safely ejected with only minor injuries.










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Jun 2, 7:55 PM EDT

THE LATEST: BLUE ANGELS PILOT KILLED; NO CIVILIANS HURT

SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) -- The Latest on the crash of a Navy Blue Angels fighter jet outside Nashville, Tennessee (all times local):

5:35 p.m.

An official in Tennessee says a pilot was killed when his Blue Angels fighter jet crashed, but no civilians were hurt on the ground.

Harry Gill, the town manager in Smyrna just outside Nashville, said Thursday that the pilot was the only casualty. Some power outages were caused by the crash, but no civilians were hurt.

A U.S. official says the pilot was identified as Marine Capt. Jeff Kuss. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Navy says the pilot was beginning to take off during an afternoon practice session when the crash happened. Five other F/A-18 jets landed safely moments later.

The elite acrobatics team was scheduled to perform at an air show this weekend.










From 4/24/1946 ( the formation of the United States Navy "Blue Angels" flight demonstration team ) To 1/16/1997 is 18530 days

18530 = 9265 + 9265

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 9265 days



From 11/3/1959 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Remarks at the Cornerstone-Laying Ceremony for the Central Intelligence Agency Building, Langley, Virginia ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 11398 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/16/1997 is 11398 days



From 11/3/1959 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Remarks at the Cornerstone-Laying Ceremony for the Central Intelligence Agency Building, Langley, Virginia ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 11398 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/16/1997 is 11398 days



From 4/14/1939 ( Franklin Roosevelt - Message to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini ) To 9/11/2001 ( the scheduled terrorist attack by force of violence to destroy the New York City World Trade Center and the Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense "The Pentagon" by Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal with massive fatalities and destruction ) is 22796 days

22796 = 11398 + 11398

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/16/1997 is 11398 days



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New `Office' launch likely to improve Microsoft's outlook

STEVE LOHR New York Times

TUE 01/14/1997

HOUSTON CHRONICLE

NEW YORK - Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, will take the stage of Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in Manhattan on Thursday to introduce "Office 97," the new version of the company's software bundle for office computing.

But the real star of the show, analysts say, will probably be a new application, called "Outlook," that has been added to the Office software suite, joining such popular programs as Word and Excel.

Outlook, analysts say, shows the progress Microsoft Corp. has made in linking its traditional products with the Internet, a key element in the company's effort to keep its sales rising rapidly.

And the new application, they add, also represents Microsoft's bid for leadership against rivals such as IBM and Netscape Communications in the fast-growing market for so-called groupware programs, which help employees work in collaborative groups.



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