The electronic-warfare version of the Grumman A6 carries a crew of four. Others suffering burns and lacerations were flown off the ship to hospitals in Florida.įour men were burned so badly that they were being flown to the burn unit at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, according to Brooke spokesman Jerry DuBois. The ship's nuclear power plant also was undamaged, the Navy said.Ī team of doctors was airlifted from the Navy base at Jacksonville to the Nimitiz to help treat the injured in the carrier's sick bay. The Nimitz, which launched the helicopters for the unsuccessful attempt to rescue American hostages from Iran last year, suffered no major damage, according to the Navy. "When we say substantial, it's a big fire." Ken Pease, a Navy spokesman at Atlantic Fleet headquarters in Norfolk, said Navy firemen fought the blaze for 70 minutes with chemical foam. Jim Lois, a spokesman for Naval Air Force of the Atlantic.Ĭdr. "As far as I know, weather was not a factor," said Cdr. Tuesday, when the 92,000-ton Nimitiz was conducting night training exercises 60 miles off Jacksonville, Fla. Navy officials said yesterday that they did not know whether the plane missed the wires as it came in to the right of the center line on the deck of the carrier.īut on the basis of reports from the Nimitz, Navy officials said the Prowler evidently clipped the wings of several aircraft parked on the right edge of the deck before slamming into a cluster of parked planes near the bow. The bulbous-nosed EA6B Prowler normally lands at a speed of about 140 mph on the carrier, where its tail hook is snagged by a series of four wires stretched across the deck. Over $100 million in fighter and attack aircraft on the carrier were believed to have been destroyed or damaged in a rapid-fire series of collisions as the errant plane careened across the deck. The fireball that shot up from the bow of the flight deck when the EA6B radar-jamming plane smashed into other aircraft parked off to the side of the landing zone apparently caused most of the deaths and injuries. The Navy did not immediately release the names of the dead and injured, because not all the next of kin had been notified.Īlthough preliminary indications suggested pilot error, Navy spokesman said they would not be able to determine the cause of the firey crash until after an investigation likely to take six months. Consumer Product Safety Commission toll-free hotline 800/638-2772.A Marine electronics warfare jet slammed onto the wrong part of the USS Nimitz' flight deck late Tuesday night, skidded off to the right and ended up in a ball of flames near the bow of the giant aircraft carrier, killing 14 men and injuring at least 48 others, Navy officials said yesterday. Wham-O requests its retailers to remove all "Water Wiggles" from their shelves.Ĭonsumers who own a "Water Wiggle" toy should return the product to the retail store where purchased for a full refund or credit toward another product.Ĭonsumers requiring information concerning this recall should contact the Customer Service Department, Wham-O Manufacturing Company, 835 East El Monte Street, San Gabriel, California 91778 (toll free numbers 800/423-4592 and 800/423-4593) or call the U.S. Parents are advised not to allow their children to play with this product. Wham-O stated that it had no knowledge of how or why the toy was dismantled or how the nozzle became lodged in the child's mouth.Ī "Water Wiggle" was involved in a similar death of a three-year-old boy in 1975. The exposed aluminum nozzle became lodged in his mouth and he drowned. The youngster was playing with some other children in his backyard with a dismantled "Water Wiggle," one from which the bell-shaped head had been removed or had come off. Wham-O stated that the recall is occasioned by the death of a four-year-old child in March 1978. The toy is designed to be attached to a garden hose for water fun. The toy consists of a seven-foot plastic hose attached to an aluminum water-jet nozzle which is covered by a bell-shaped plastic head. Approximately 2 1/2 million of these toys have been sold throughout the United States over the past 17 years. Consumer Product Safety Commission, today announced it is voluntarily stopping sale and recalling its "Water Wiggle" toy. 13) - Wham-O Manufacturing Co., San Gabriel, Calif., in cooperation with the U.S. Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Minority Enterprise.
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