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Boston Evening Globe Wednesday, April 1, 1970 Air crash kills 61 in Morocco rf fltHHfJtoA-, rj' i a ui left, Pepsi passengers, alleged hi- IN HI-JACKED PLANE Herbert Brill, Cola official, of Hoboken, N.J., among At right is Tsuneo Umenai, one of jackers. (AP) all well on board and ask for United Press International CASABLANCA, Morocco The pilot of a Royal Moroccan Airlines Caravelle coming in for a routine landing swerved out of control today, dodged a small village then crashed onto a highway where the plane leapfrogged into the air, a ball of flames. Airline officials said the crash killed 61 persons and that 21 survived, including one stewardess. They said 25 persons were pulled from the wreckage alive but four died later in hospitals. The plane carried 76 passengers and six crewmen.

The aircraft came down on the El Gara road near Berrechid, 25 miles south of Casablanca, where it was scheduled to land five minutes later on its flight from Agadir to Paris. Witnesses at the village said the aircraft was plunging straight for them when the pilot appeared to gain enough control to swing it past. The plane hit the ground several hundred yards past the village and careened across country, losing wings and undercarriage before leapfrogging into the air, exploding and bursting into flames, witnesses said. Wreckage, baggage and clothing scattered over a 1000-square-yard area. Witness reports conflicted on whether the aircraft hit high tension wires before or after it crashed.

Casablanca control tower reported the pilot, French Capt. Roger Hemon, a veteran of 20,000 flying hours and on loan from Air France, had contacted them a few minutes earlier to report permission to land. the hi-jackers think South Koreans sought to make Clearance was given for the landing scheduled at 8:25 a.m. (3:25 a.m. EST).

The plane crashed two miles from the end of the Casablanca runway at 8:20 a.m. Airline officials said the passengers included at least 26 of French nationality returning from an Easter vacation at the Club Mediterranee holiday village in Agadir. DISGUISE THAT FAILED Two South Korean paratroopers, disguised in North Korean army uniforms, carry weapons as they run toward hi-jacked Japanese airliner when it landed at Kimpo airport in Seoul. The they were in North Korea but the ruse failed and the hi-jackers refused to give up the plane. (AP) gov- They said Moroccan survivors included the ernor of Agadir Province, Abdeslam Ben Hamou.

Hijackers, S. Korea stalemated Ambulances from surrounding villages and helH copters from police headquarters in Rabat went to the scene. The wounded, many of them in serious condition, were taken to hospitals in Casablanca. SI 14 either MIGs or antiaircraft batteries had fired on the plane when it veered away from North Korea on Tuesday and in- stead flew to Seoul. The hijack saga began at 7:10 a.m.

(5:10 p.m. EST) Tuesday when the plane left Tokyo for a routine flight to Fukuoka in southern Japan. A group of extreme Communist student radicals, armed with daggers, swords, pistols and homemade bombs, took over the plane. Japanese authorities today questioned the persons who Left the plane at Fukuoka and established there were at least eight members of the Red Army, the extreme radical Communist youth group, aboard the plane. The pilot of th plane is Capt.

Shinji Ishida, 46, who warned officials tension was running high in side the captured aircraft. Freed passengers told police they were bound to their seats by nylon ropes except on visits to the restrooms. "Please ask the Korean authorities for permission for the plane to depart," Ishida said. "All the passengers have weakened considerably because they have not eaten or drunk anything." officials worried about the fate of two Americans aboard. A Seoul radio station said today the hijackers had given Hashimoto an ultimatum to let the jetliner take off at 6 a.m.

tomorrow (4 p.m. EST today) or they would "take action," presumably blowing up the plane with homemade bombs. The Japanese said there had been no such ultimatum. Instead, a Japanese po kesman, counselor Toshikazu Maeda of the Japanese embassy, said: "No substantial breakthrough can be expected in the limited near future." Asked what he meant by that he replied: "I am not in a position to discuss the timing." South Korean authorities said radio reports from the plane indicated the hijackers had been eating the food sent aboard for all 115 believed on the plane and the passengers had had nothing to eat since a light snack served Tuesday when the airliners took off from Tokyo for Fukuoka. It was hijacked shortly afterward.

North Korea announced it would grant safe passage to the plane when it takes off. It said the passengers and crew would be released immediately and given humane treatment. It did not say whether the 727 would be returned. A Pyongyang radio broadcast denied reports 1 United Press International SEOUL South Korean and Japanese authorities took a tough attitude today toward a band of radical Japanese students who hijacked a Japanese airliner and demanded it be flown to North Korea. The Boeing 727 jet his remained at Seoul's Kimpo Airport since it landed at 3:16 p.m.

Tuesday (1:16 a.m. EST) in a contest of wills between the sword-waving hijackers, who have threatened to blow up the plane, and officials intent on freeing the passengers and crew. Japanese Transportation Minister Tomisaburo Hashimoto flew in from Tokyo and in a radio conversation with the hijackers said the plane would not be allowed to depart until the hostages were freed. His tough stand ap- parcntly had the blessing i of South Korean and U.S. Maine general killed in Vietnam by enemy Imllcl Associated Press SAIGON Brig.

Gen. William R. Bond, commander of the U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade, was killed by enemy small arms fire today. He was the fifth American general killed in action in the Vietnam war the previous our died in aircraft crashes.

Bond, 51, of Portland, was hit in the chest by a single bullet along the southeastern edge of war zone about 70 miles northeast of Saigon. He died within minutes after reaching an Army field hospital. Military spokesmen said his command and control helicopter landed in the area shortly after noon. He was shot after he gor out to inspect a patrol that had been in contact with Viet Cong troops during stepped-up enemy attacks. "Apparently he had gotten out of the helicopter and was walking when he was hit," said one spokesman.

was nor very far away from the helicopter. His pilot flew him to the hospital." The spokesman said it was possible that Bond was hit by a sniper's bullet. Contact earlier in the day indicated enemy troops remained in the received a reply. Coeds at Yale outshine men Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Ct Yale women are outdistancing Yale men in academic achievements in this first year of co-education at the Ivy League school. The female advantage in grades during the first semester breaks down this way: "Honors women 27.6 percent, men 23.9 percent; "High Pass" women 46 percent, men 39.6 percent; 'Pass" women 18.6 per- cent, men 23.4 percent; "Fail" women .9 percent, men 1.4 percent; Other women 7 percent, men 11.7 percent.

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