-Caveat Lector- On Headline News tonight, 9pm Eastern edition, they covered this story for TWENTY MINTUES of a half-hour news program; this is the lead story on Yahoo! news, NPR and Reuters, and the #3 story on AP (NY Times is only updated once a day; we'll see tomorrow). In the grand scheme of things, the crash of a rescue chopper doesn't merit this much coverage. Perhaps another 9/11 bombshell from which they are trying to distract us??
Tenorlove http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020531/ts_nm/life_climbers_dc_5 Yahoo! News - Six Dead, More Hurt in Two Mountain Disasters PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - A military helicopter slammed into Oregon's snow-capped Mount Hood on Thursday as crews tried to pluck six injured climbers from an icy crevasse that claimed three lives. One of the five crew members aboard the Black Hawk helicopter was critically hurt and the other four suffered less serious injuries as the aircraft's rotors shattered before it tumbled down a glacier. The accident on Mount Hood occurred just a day after three climbers died atop Washington's Mount Rainier. Rescue crews on Mount Rainier, about 100 miles to the north, tried to reach a German woman who was believed killed in a fall, along with three others from her climbing party, from near the 14,410-foot peak. Two other Mount Rainier climbers died and another survived, authorities said. <p> The dramatic helicopter crash on Mount Hood was captured live on television and narrated by a stunned announcer. "Oh, my God," the announcer said. "Oh, that's horrible. You're watching this live, folks. Oh, if only this were a movie. You saw the tail go into the mountain and it just blew apart, rolling down the hillside, oh, good Lord." The helicopter had been hovering over a crevasse where nine climbers fell on Thursday morning while trying to scale the 11,237-foot peak, the highest point in Oregon, when they lost control and crashed into the mountain. <p> The helicopter was seen briefly flying backward before its front end smashed into the side of the mountain and then began tumbling until it was out of the picture. Three of the climbers who fell into the crevasse died and the other six were injured, four critically and two seriously. After the helicopter crash, other rescue personnel airlifted at least four men off the mountain. Three survivors were flown to Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland, where a spokeswoman described two men, aged 40 and 45, in serious condition. Another injured man, aged 43, was in fair condition at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. Aside from the helicopter, crews equipped with oxygen tanks and life support were making their way to the scene by snow tractor. ONE SURVIVES MOUNT RAINIER FALL Of the four people involved in the Mount Rainier accident, only one climber was believed to have survived, an unidentified man from Germany, said Lee Taylor, a spokeswoman for Mount Rainier National Park. All four climbers fell on Tuesday during a desperate attempt to get off the mountain. The survivor was rescued on Wednesday after falling, losing the shell of his boots and making his way alone down to 7,800 feet, where he called for help from a cellphone he borrowed from a skier, Taylor said. "Of the four people, two are known to be dead and the third person, there is a very slim chance that she could be alive, but probably not," Taylor said. Taylor said the climbers were trying to descend from the mountain's summit on Tuesday when a fierce snowstorm, bringing 70 mph winds, hit and destroyed their tents, forcing them to dig snow caves. She said two members of the party, who apparently met at Oregon State University in Corvallis, had managed to get into a snow cave they had built when one of the other climbers, who were not roped to the mountain, slipped on an icy surface and fell. Taylor said the fallen climber's partner, in trying to alert the two members of the team who were already inside the snow cave to his plight, inadvertently walked on its roof and plunged inside, destroying the shelter that had been so difficult to create. Snow caves are essentially holes dug into the side of the mountain that affords climbers in dire straits some relief from howling winds and freezing temperatures. "That moment when the cave collapsed was a major turning point because they now had no shelter and a lot of their gear was now buried underneath snow," Taylor said. "One of them ended up without a jacket because the jacket was buried in snow," she said. "At that point their situation became quite desperate." Copyright � 2002 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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