小林善樹です。
Abolition 2000という核廃絶を目指すネックワークのMLで流されて来た情報で
す。発信元はホワイトハウスの前で核廃絶を求めるVigilを毎日やっている
Ellen ThomasさんたちのProposition Oneという平和団体です。
イタリヤでのゴンドラ事件についてのニューヨークタイムズの情報です。
エレンさんは、日本でも同じようなことがあるのではありませんか?あったら
ニューヨークタイムズに投稿してはいかがですか、と呼びかけています。
低空飛行問題に関わっておられる方からお願いできますでしょうか?
小林善樹<PEE03105@nifty.ne.jp>
以下転送文です。
INET GATE
INR00104 99/02/12
04:16
題名：Japan: Aren't there similar stories abou
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 05:49:20 -0500
From: Peace through Reason <prop1@prop1.org>
To: (JapanNews) prop1@prop1.org
Aren't there similar stories about Marine pilots in Japan? If
so, it would
be good to write to the New York Times: letters@nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Marines-Cable-Car.html
Witnesses: Marine Jet Rustled Trees
February 11, 1999 - By The Associated Press
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) --
A Marine jet rustled
tree tops as it swooped
over an Italian valley with a
roar moments before it struck
a ski gondola cable,
sending 20 people to their
deaths, witnesses testified.
``It was almost at the top
of the trees,'' 16-year-old
Andrea Mover of San Michele
all'Adige, Italy, testified
Wednesday at Capt. Richard
Ashby's court-martial.
``Just as the plane passed
by the tops of the two trees, I
saw the tops moving.''
Ashby, 31, of Mission Viejo,
Calif., is charged with 20
counts of involuntary manslaughter,
destroying
government and private property
and dereliction of
duty. If convicted on all
charges, he faces more than
200 years in prison.
Ashby was piloting the EA-6B
Prowler on Feb. 3,
1998, when it sliced the
cable over the Italian village
of Cavalese.
Mover testified that his
home is on a route commonly
used by military planes,
but that Ashby's jet was ``much
lower than they usually
go.'' He said he watched the jet
from a window in his home.
Prosecutors contend Ashby
was negligently flying too
fast and too low -- in violation
of an altitude restriction
of 1,000 feet. The cable
was hit at about 360 feet.
Defense lawyers say Ashby
will tell the jury his map
didn't have the ski gondola
marked on it and that his
jet's radar altimeter --
which measures flying altitude --
was faulty.
Mario Bleggi, a surveyor
working near a mountain
ridge near Chivo, Italy,
testified that he heard the
Prowler before he saw it.
Bleggi, of Trento, Italy also
told jurors he watched the
jet make a clockwise
rotation, allowing him to
see the belly of the jet.
``Apart from the fact I had
never seen a plane so low, I
was very afraid because
of the noise,'' Bleggi testified.
Also Wednesday, maintenance
officer Lt. Col. Gary
Eugene Slyman and Capt.
Scott Roys testified that the
jet's radar altimeter had
malfunctioned on two earlier
flights but was fixed.
And Chief Warrant Officer
Jeffrey Poncelet said his
analysis of tapes from the
Prowler showed the jet had
exceeded its 517-mph speed
limit during 89 percent of
the ill-fated flight.
The Prowler's navigator,
Capt. Joseph Schweitzer, 31,
of Westbury, N.Y., is awaiting
trial next month for the
deaths.