Dear Justin, FYI latest info from morning hours of Monday at Prague: The former astronauts Eugene Cernan and Vladimir Remek suffered slight injuries during an emergency landing of Mi-8 helicopter near the South Bohemian town Milevsko on Sunday 28th, 2001 at about 1450 local Central European Time (1350 UT). The helicopter's engine suffered sudden loss of power at the height of 150 meters (500 feet) but thenks their skills pilots managed to accomplish hard landing withou loss of live of any person on board. The astronauts were on the way to the birthplace of Cernan's grandfather Josef Cihlar in the village Bernartice near the town Tabor in Southern Bohemia. Immediately after landing one crew member used his gun to open the helicopter's window and helped other persons on board to leave the crashed craft. The Czech astronaut Remek was taken to hospital in town Pisek for observation, the American astronaut Cernan was transported to the Central Army Hospital in Prague with suspiction of broken ribs but this was not confirmed. The Cernan's stay in Czech Republic was prolonged because the medical observation were not terminated in time for his scheduled departure in the morning hours Monday. The Czech president Vaclav Havel, also hospitalised at Central Army Hospital with bronchititis, visited Cernan in evening hours of Sunday at the hospital. Czech Ministry of Defense created an investigation board to determine the causes of accident. -- Mgr. Antonin Vitek, CSc. Office: Main Library, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Narodni 3, CZ-11522 Praha 1 - Phone: +420(2)21403255, fax +420(2)24240611 Home: Kytin 127, CZ-25210 Mnisek p. B., Czech Republic Phone: +420(305)592865 - Coord.: 14.2194 deg E, 49.8488 deg N, 442 m ASL My satellite home page: http://www.lib.cas.cz/www/space.40/index.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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