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U.S. NEWS Saturday 18 May 2019
F-16 fighter crashes into California warehouse, pilot ejects

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — video from inside showed sibly a falling fire sprinkler — Damage to the warehouse
An F-16 fighter jet crashed what appeared to be the and wasn’t seriously hurt. was relatively minor, and
Thursday into a warehouse tail of the plane buried in A dozen people were there was no major fire,
just outside March Air Re- twisted metal and piles of hosed down and taken to which Holliday called “a
serve Base in California, cardboard boxes. hospitals, and there were miracle.”
sending a dozen people Daniel Gallegos, a ware- no major injuries, state fire The pilot, the only person
to hospitals for evaluation house worker, said he’s Capt. Fernando Herrera on board, was taken to a
after they were exposed to used to hearing the sound said. hospital for examination,
debris, authorities said. of planes coming and go- The crash also caused a officials said.
The pilot ejected and para- ing, but the noise just be- small fire doused by the The F-16, assigned to the Air
chuted to safety, said Maj. fore the crash was deafen- warehouse sprinkler system, National Guard, was carry-
Perry Covington, the base’s ing. Herrera said. ing standard armaments,
director of public affairs. “Next thing I know I just The crash happened as the Holliday said. It will be re-
The cause of the crash was hear this explosion and turn pilot was landing following covered once authorities
under investigation. around to the back of the a routine training mission, make sure the weapons
Interstate 215, which runs building, and I just seen March Air Reserve Base don’t pose a risk, he said. This photo taken from video
between the base and the a burst of flames and just Deputy Fire Chief Timothy The base is home to the Air provided by KABC-TV shows
warehouse, was closed in the ceiling started falling Holliday said. Force Reserve Command’s where an F-16 fighter jet
both directions, backing up through every part of the “The pilot was having hy- Fourth Air Force Headquar- crashed into a warehouse
just outside March Air Reserve
rush-hour traffic for miles. building,” he told KABC-TV draulic problems,” Holliday ters and various units of Base in Riverside, Calif.,
Television news showed a . “I turned around, and my said. the Army Reserve, Navy Thursday afternoon, May 16,
large hole in the roof and co-worker just told me to “He started losing control of Reserve, Marine Corps Re- 2019.
sprinklers on inside the get out, so I just made a run the aircraft.” serve, California Air Na- Associated Press
building about 65 miles for it.” The jet’s cockpit canopy tional Guard and California al Guard unit based in Fres-
(105 kilometers) east of Los Gallegos said he believed was on a runway, and a Army National Guard. no, and the F-16 belongs to
Angeles. one of his co-workers was parachute had settled in a The pilot is from the 144th the South Dakota Air Na-
Cellphone photos and struck by something — pos- nearby field. Fighter Wing, an Air Nation- tional Guard in Sioux Falls.q

Man exonerated after 45 years

will get $1.5M from Michigan

By ED WHITE
Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan
man who spent 45 years in
prison before he was ex-
onerated of murder will re- This file photo provided by Alexandria Sheriff’s Office shows
ceive $1.5 million from the Kevin Mallory. Mallory, a former CIA officer was sentenced
state, the attorney gener- Friday, May 17, 2019 to 20 years in prison on charges that he
al’s office said Friday. spied for China and allegations he sought to expose human
Richard Phillips, 73, was ex- assets who were once his responsibility.
onerated in 2018, becom- Associated Press
ing the longest-serving U.S.
inmate to be cleared. He’s Ex-CIA officer gets 20
been selling his prison paint-
ings to raise money while years for spying for China
waiting to learn whether he
would be compensated By MATTHEW BARAKAT handlers in exchange for
under a Michigan law that Associated Press $25,000. Mallory’s scheme
pays the wrongly convict- ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A began to unravel when he
ed. In this Jan. 17, 2019 file photo, Richard Phillips stands next to former CIA officer was sen- was selected for second-
“We have an obligation some of his artwork during an interview at the Community Art tenced Friday to 20 years in ary screening at Chicago’s
to provide compassionate Gallery in Ferndale, Mich. prison on charges that he O’Hare International Air-
compensation to these Associated Press spied for China and allega- port in April 2017 on a flight
men for the harm they suf- plead no contest to perjury co-defendant in 2010 told tions he sought to expose back from Shanghai with
fered,” Attorney General in a homicide investiga- the parole board that Phil- human assets who were his son and customs agents
Dana Nessel said in a state- tion in St. Joseph County. lips had absolutely no role. once his responsibility. found $16,500 in unreport-
ment. The conviction was thrown Someone who is exonerat- The sentence issued by ed cash. “At its heart, this
Her office agreed to pay out in 2017, two years after ed based on new evidence U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis was a very basic crime,”
$780,000 to Neal Redick, another man confessed to can qualify for $50,000 for III in federal court in Alex- prosecutor John Gibbs
who served nearly 16 years the killing. every year spent in prison. andria for Kevin Mallory, said during Friday’s hear-
in prison for criminal sex- Michigan lawmakers still Phillips would appear to 62, of Leesburg, Virginia, is ing. “He was desperate
ual conduct in Genesee need to put more money qualify for more than $2 less than the life sentence for money, and the most
County. The complainant into the fund. million, based on 45 years sought by prosecutors but valuable thing he had was
recanted, and the convic- Phillips had long declared behind bars. But he’s be- more than the 10-year term our nation’s secrets.” Gibbs
tion was thrown out in 2007. his innocence in a fatal ing paid only for 30 years requested by the defense. said the $25,000 Mallory re-
Ray McCann will receive shooting in the Detroit area because he was serving a A jury convicted Mallory last ceived was just the begin-
$40,000. He served 20 in 1971. The Innocence Clin- separate armed robbery year under the Espionage ning of what would have
months in jail and prison ic at University of Michigan conviction at the same Act for providing classi- occurred if he hadn’t been
after feeling pressured to law school learned that a time. q fied information to Chinese caught. q