1. But when the jet actually does go up in a fireball, everyone suspects that he may have had a hand in the accident. 2. Every night, the jets go for Rakovica where, so the rumors have it, the Yugoslav military hierarchy work from a bunker deep beneath the airfield runways. 3. However, the Los Angeles Times reported that co-pilot Gamil El Batouty asked to fly the first leg and was at the controls when the jet went down. 4. That meant that nervousness was highest in the morning, when the news was fresh and many travelers knew only that a jet had gone down in New York. 5. The jet went through that area, smashed into stanchions holding lights that direct planes approaching from the opposite direction, and broke up and caught fire. 6. The jets go so fast that sonic booms are as common as sirens in a big city. 7. This was not long after Payne Stewart, one of my golf heroes, died when his Lear jet went down. 8. Private pilot Daniel Muelhaupt was flying toward Naples when he saw the jet go down. 9. An American fighter jet went down Friday in Bosnia, and a U.N. source said it was shot down over the Serb stronghold of Banja Luka. 10. An American fighter jet went down today in Bosnia, and a U.N. source said it was shot down by Bosnian Serbs. |