Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 11, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba 95wient Winnipeg repress Canada world Pfilf Iek of term ss77294 h snowbirds clip Pilot killed ill Al practice manoeuvre goes awry near Moose jaw by Martin Ohanlon press to Ivi the famed snowbirds team died yester Day after his Jet clipped wings with another during a practice manoeuvre that required the planes to Fly no More than two arms lengths Michael originally from managed to eject before his Tutor Jet slammed into a Snow dusted Knoll near Mitchellton in sout Central but he died in Hospital a Short time the Pilot of the second plane Man aged to Fly his Jet safely to Canadian forces base Moose 35 Kilometres North of the four other Tutor jets in the formation were not involved in the Accident and also returned to All that remained of the downed Jet was a mangled mass of blackened Metal burned into the shallow Hill Small pieces of the plane were scattered around the crash Vandenboss Orange Parachute Lay blowing in the icy wind about 20 metres from the Sylvia Kol Omenuk reached the site shortly after the the plane is entirely she theres one Wing visible that has red and White on it almost looks like he came straight Vandenbos was a former flying instructor with More than 500 hours in the air As a teacher and hours Snowbird crash a Snowbird military let crashed and burned near cab Moose up of flying he was found an hour after the crash and taken by military ambulance to a Moose jaw Hospital where he was pronounced said Ritchie acting Wing commander at the the crash occurred while the pilots were starting their workup for the new said team commander Darryl adding that half of the 11member team was named just their first assignment was a Fly past at the Grey cup game in Winnipeg on Vandenbos is the third snowbirds Pilot to be killed since this was his second year with the two years Vandenbos was involved in a close Call while on a Reg ular training Mission As an instructor he and Dave were forced to land their Tutor Jet at an abandoned air strip just outside in Southern after their aircraft engine a ninety Ember Canadian forces flight investigation team is on its Way to the crash site to determine the cause of this said Michel director of flight safety for the the purpose of the team to determine All factors which contributed to the occurrence and the final and to recommend preventative safety he said in a statement out of it was not known what caused the jets to Brush but investigators said weather was not a officials said it was cold and Clear at the Joanne who lives on a farm near the crash said one of the planes appeared to be in my sister inlaw was outside and noticed one of the jets she thought was not with the group was flying rather slowly and was tipped on its Petersen the next thing we heard was that a plane was circling quite Low to the ground and then the Neighbour drove in and told me that theres a plane Down in the Farmer Bill Luduik was out in the Field when the plane i was just out feeding the cows and i seen a great big burst of smoke come up in the he so i radioed Back to the House and i told the wife a plane has continued please see a photos medical team treats Vandenbos at crash site near Moose tragic death closes House Early maps Swap stories about joyous Cohen As mourning process begins in Bruce Cheadle Canadian press Ottawa the shocking death of popular Liberal my Shaughnessy Cohen on wednesday hours after she suffered a massive brain Haemorrhage in the brought the fall session of House to an Early close All parties agreed they had no stomach left for the Cut and thrust of partisan politics As they paid tribute to one of the most partisan and humorous she was a Dynamo prime minister Jean Chretien told the commons As Cabinet ministers wept around is what is Best about collapsed at her desk shortly after question period ended wednesday the my was taken to Hospital and bounced dead at speaking yesterday to a hushed commons speaker Gib Parent quietly recounted the frantic moments after Cohens when Liberal my Bob Kilger called for a doctor and Reform my Grant Hill darted across the floor to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation As parliamentary of shuttle Crew turn on the enter fledgling space station by Kathy Sawyer Washington Post we Are a very special family and were going to have to like said nodding cup Hajto immigration minister Lucienne Robilland wipes a tear As Chretien remembers Dynamo to Cohens family seated in the commons Jerry tier husband of 25 flew to Ottawa and was at Cohens Side when she he was joined yesterday by their daughter Dena and close family including Mary a former Ergo my and currently Canadas Consul general in continued please see Houston the Crew of the space shuttle endeavour yesterday floated across the dark threshold of the new International space station and turned on the becom ing the first people to enter the fledgling outpost in just before 2 As endeavour sailed 39s Kilometres Over the Indian naut Robert Cabana and russian cosmonaut Sergei Kri Kalev swam an Airlock attached to the shuttle into the Unity the first of two main Chambers in the 35tonne Complex mounted in the shuttles cargo the four other Crew members soon can striking contrast with the worn e Tea inn sic Nulu non space the russian its just so Nice Cabana his voice catching with Emo its just really Nice to be in our new they then pushed further into the trailing cables and grasping flashlights or installing hooking up electronics and carrying out other work along the their lengthy checklist for yesterday and today included removing some 700 bolts that had secured equipment for the stresses hooking up a Tempo Rary communications swapping out a faulty Battery Ling unit and lugging from the shuttle to be go Otinus ;