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REPUBLIC CIT36 The Arizona Republic Wednesday, November 10, 1982 HdBEK Tempe pilot dies after plane crashes into Scottsdale homes Court date profitable for drifter Ry Laurie Roberts and Neal Savage Republic Staff A twin-engine plane that may have run out of gas crashed into a Scottsdale neighborhood Tuesday night, hitting two homes and killing the pilot. No one else was injured in the 7:35 p.m. crash, which occurred at 68th Street and Culver, authorities said. The plane struck a power pole, knocking out electricity in an area of more than 2 blocks, skidded along a chain-link fence and became wedged between the two houses. The craft knocked a 5-foot hole in what appeared to be a bedroom of one house.

Occupants of the two dwellings, who were home at the time of the crash, were uninjured, authorities said. In Los Angeles, a Federal Aviation Administration regional duty officer said the pilot reported engine problems shortly after taking off from Sky Harbor Airport. The victim was identified as Delton Charles Burnside, 40. of 601 W. Fifth Tempe, a pilot there, Edwards said.

The pilot had flown to several Arizona earlier in the day in the four-seat Cessna Turbo Sky Master, said Gary R. Maschner, Scottsdale police spokesman. Children playing in the neighborhood said the plane, its engine sputtering, was gliding north and skimming treetops before it sliced power lines and crashed, sending the utility linns dancing through an alley and into the bark yards-of several homes. Pilot, CV? for Fiesta Airlines in Mesa. However, Bob Edwards of the Rural-Metro Fire Department said the pilot apparently had run out of gas and was trying to find a place to land when he hit the power pole, splintering it from the base.

Witnesses said they heard the sound of a sputtering aircraft engine before a series of explosions, which apparently were set off when the plane struck power lines. The pilot was taken to Scottsdale Memorial Hospital in "very grave condition" and died Jii' f1' ib! iwn 1 i i' j. "'PL'" ') 1 i i 1 1 JT ft I I 1 If w'-I 'A I I 1 I. i -U uQIP Wmm- WML jgf ft 1 1 I Gives soft even radiator heat Jk amm.am 1 'if it i i 1 1 11 1 III without vP SINGLE-TUBE II II 111 1 I 1 I senses temperature turns unit jyi Iff I SI -omaticany. i)HAlT7 fJBAfBD I 1 1 I I II 1 I 1 "'ummate rocker switch turns laf Jaii 1 1 sasJS is 14 'ksi I 1 If i 1 I unit off and on.

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Sanden told the Spotsylvania Sheriffs Department he had found the bill while hitchhiking on Interstate 95, but he was held over the weekend and appeared Monday before Judge Joseph L. Savage Jr. for arraignment on a charge of defrauding an innkeeper. Savage, after hearing San-den's story, decided to let the man go if he agreed to pay Howard Johnson's restaurant the $10.40 tab he owed for the meal. Rut Sanden said all he had to his name was the bogus bill.

At that point, a courtroom spectator raised his hand and offered to pay the bill so Sanden could be on his way. Then another hand shot up. And another. And another. As astonished attorneys, clerks and sheriffs deputies watched, the people of Spotsylvania County came forward.

Some pressed $20 bills into Sanden's hand. Others chipped in $1 bills and assorted change. "Would anyone like to contribute his air fare back to Florida?" the judge asked. But the people's generosity didn't go that far. However, Sanden left the courtroom $80 to the better, and he accepted a ride to nearby Fredericksburg with attorney Kenneth Mergenthal.

Blaze fatal to 27 ignited by cigarette Prisoners handed butt to padded-cell inmate Associated Press RILOXI, Miss. A mentally troubled inmate says two female prisoners slipped him a lighted cigarette shortly before a fire that killed 27 people started in his padded cell, authorities said Tuesday. Robert Eugene Pates, 31, of Granite City, 111., said he was "handed a lighted cigarette" by the women 4V4 feet across the corridor from him in the Harrison County Jail, according to J.J. Roberts, an investigator for the Sheriffs Department. Pates survived with minor burns, but the women were among those who died early Monday when smoke from the burning padding in his cell filled the jail.

"Pates said he went to sleep and the cigarette apparently started the fire," Roberts said. A Mississippi judge who ordered Pates committed for mental treatment Sunday said the inmate's family reported that Pates had been confined to mental institutions regularly for the past 10 years. Pates has been charged with 27 counts of capital murder in the fire, which injured 61 inmates and rescuers. On Tuesday, 53 people remained hospitalized, including 10 in Blaze, C2 'Homicidal' patient's release brings $25 million judgment lm presto 7 ttrT it TWIN-TUBE PRESTO 1 fBl I (J. I HoilikRTZ HEATERS-OSCILLATING i after being released.

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If he doesn the judgment will be appealed. McDonald said it appeared the judgment would have to be paid by the five individuals. He said none is insured by the state and only one has private liability insurance. The defendants are Commissioner Glenn Ireland; Jaime Condom, associate commissioner for state mental-health systems; and Larry Ingram, Edwin Seger and Thomas Smith of Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa. jfijll ill 1500 watts.

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