6.16.2005

With All These Fallen Planes, Who Needs Terrorists?

Since Monday morning, four planes or helicopters have gone done in or near residential neighborhoods, including one yesterday in Yuma where the military plane carried at least four 500 lb planes, with this CNN story following up today:

About 300 Marine base workers walked shoulder to shoulder through a southern Arizona neighborhood Thursday in search of any stray ammunition from the crash of a bomb-laden Harrier jet.

As each section was cleared, officials planned to let residents return to the last 52 homes still evacuated after Wednesday's crash in Yuma, said James Stover, the city's public affairs manager.

Hundreds more evacuees had been allowed to go home late Wednesday, hours after the jet plunged into a backyard while trying to land at Marine Corps Air Station-Yuma, about 185 miles southwest of Phoenix.