Plane lands on beach, flips over

BEIJING,April 18-- Beachgoers in Australia had a lucky escape
yesterday when a small plane crash-landed in the sand then flipped over in the
sea. The two pilots also survived the accident.

Phil Walters and his co-pilot were flying the single-propeller Piper Cub
towing an advertising banner above the tourist town of Caloundra, Queensland,
state when the engine stalled.

Walters told Network Ten television that he spotted a patch of empty sand
on Shelley beach and began sliding toward it. Witnesses said the plane hit the
sand, flipped and came down in the shallows.

(Source: China Daily)

Stolen plane from Canada Lands in Mossouri

CHICAGO, April 6 (Xinhua) -- A small plane stolen by a student from an
aviation center in Canada's Ontario Province, landed near a Missouri highway
Monday and the pilot is now on the run, U.S. federal aviation officials said.

A U.S. Federal Aviation official said that the single-engine plane was
tracked by two U.S. fighter jets when it flew into the United State, and it
landed on a dirt road at Ellsinore, southeast of Missouri. The pilot ran away
after the plane landed and local police were responding.

Two F-16 fighters had been dispatched to track the plane which was taken at
about 2:30 p.m. from the Aviation Centre of Excellence at Thunder Bay's
Confederation College in Ontario.

Fighter pilots intercepted the plane at the border between the states of
Michigan and Wisconsin, according to a spokesman for the North American
Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado.

As the plane flew over Madison, Wisconsin, the state capitol building was
evacuated shortly after 5 p.m. as a precaution.

The pilot acknowledged seeing the F-16s but refused to communicate with any
authorities, U.S officials said.