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Safety oversights, inexperience at play in deadly 2020 ATV rollover at Ali Al Salem 3 hours ago Senior Airman Jason Khai Phan, assigned to the 66th Security Forces Squadron, was photographed in 2019 as an airman first class. Phan, of Anaheim, Calif., died as a result of non-combat related injuries while conducting a routine patrol outside the perimeter of Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, Sept. 12. (Air Force) A recent investigation into the all-terrain vehicle rollover that killed an American airman on patrol outside Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait last fall found that none of the ATV’s occupants wore seatbelts, and only one door may have been locked as needed. ....
The 41st president. important unity for the country. jon karl, thanks so much for your reporting all day. and our coverage of the celebration of george h.w. bush continues tomorrow. the final service at st. martin s episcopal church in houston. that s at 11:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow morning, right here. in the meantime, we do move onto the other news this wednesday night. and there is a breaking headline tonight. a military accident involving a marine fa-18 and a kc-130, plunging into the sea off the coast of japan. several american service members onboard, and there is a search and rescue mission under way at this hour. here s abc s chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz tonight. reporter: the midair mishap was in the middle of the night, in cloudy skies, 200 miles off the ast of japan. both aircraft ended up in the water, indicating a midair collision. details are still unclear, but the f-18, like this one, may have been attempting to refuel off of the kc-130. ....
Things. we believe the plane may not have that critical data recorder. what they have here that they didn t have six months ago is eyewitness accounts of exactly what happened. eyewitnesses saying they saw flames potentially smoke from one of the engines. there were withins to the all there for investigators to begin to look at. zain i should mention that fundamentally yes the investigation is important finding the cause is important. but this is a human tragedy. in a sense it was a military accident but it is taking it is feeling much like a civilian aircraft like a passenger plane. that s because it was not just military members on board, but families and relatives and in some cases we re hearing as many as four or five people from the same family aboard that plane. ....
would have been a better place to hit or a worst place to hit. there s so many apartment complexes around here. can you describe more that area of where the plane crashed? yeah. it s we are maybe a half a mile from virginia beach ocean front. big resort area. lots of homes, lots of apartment complexes. and it s it s just a place that, you know, anywhere but here kind of thing. again, if it was a half a mile to the west, it could have been in a creek or a marshy area. and he would have had to have probably crossed at least one marshy area to get to this point. how did you know that this was unusual or different? you say that you have got low-flying airplaplanes in this all the time. how did you know this was something that was unusual and dangerous? well, i ll tell you, again, the way it was coming in, it almost came in like it was trying to land with the nose facing up and there was nowhere for it to touch down. there was no flat ground in the direction he w ....