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It is revealed that Joan Bennett Kennedy's children are granted legal guardianship over her due to her ongoing struggle with alcoholism.  
 
It is revealed that Joan Bennett Kennedy's children are granted legal guardianship over her due to her ongoing struggle with alcoholism.  
  
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* February 3 - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kam_Air_Flight_904 Kam Air Flight 904] crashed in Afghanistan killing 104 people.  The plane  was on the peak of the Chaperi Mountain, at about 20 km (12.5 miles) east of the Afghan capital of Kabul, in remote mountainous terrain on the side of Chaperi Mountain at an altitude of 3,300 metres (11,000 feet). The incident took place shortly after 4:00 pm on February 3 (local time), when a private Kam Air Boeing 737-200 jet aircraft in Afghanistan went missing during a domestic flight from the western city of Herat to Kabul International Airport in the capital of Kabul to the east. The crash is the deadliest air disaster in Afghan history.  <br> The aircraft lost communication during a snowstorm. The cause of the loss of communication, and the subsequent crash, is presently unknown. Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah said his guerrilla fighters had not shot down the plane and expressed sadness at the crash. Air traffic control for Afghanistan is provided by the US occupation force operating out of the Bagram airport. Bagram has become a US airbase and is the closest airport to Kabul where 904 could divert to land safely. <br> One theory is that the plane ran out of fuel after being turned away by US troops occupying the Bagram Airbase. Flight 904 could not land at Kabul due to bad weather and diverted to Bagram as a final choice. Bagram air traffic control refused permission to land even after being informed that Flight 904 had only 15 minutes of fuel remaining. This claim of landing clearance being denied by US air traffic control at Bagram was first published in the Pakistani print and Internet news and in an international shortwave broadcast interview on Radio Tehran.  <br> At Pol-e-Charkhi, where the ANA's Central Corps soldiers are based, Lt. Col. Kabuly Qadeer, commander of 2nd Kandak (Battalion), 3rd Brigade quickly gathered his soldiers, who mounted their vehicles and prepared to head to the Chenari Village at the base of the mountain. <br> Alongside the ANA were their U.S. embedded tactical trainers. The team's commander, South Carolina Army National Guard Lt. Col. Gordon Johnson Jr., said their mission was to support the Afghan soldiers in any situation that developed. <br> At the base of Chaperi Mountain, the 2nd Kandak and the U.S. advisers set up a command center to coordinate between ISAF and Central Corps headquarters. <br> First, the ANA set up two checkpoints leading into the area to limit the number of people around the crash site. <br> Next, Qadeer, a seasoned mountain fighter familiar with the terrain, accompanied 40 of his ANA soldiers aboard a BMP-1 armored personal carrier. Along with them was a local village elder to use as a guide in a rescue attempt.  <br> The Boeing 737-200, flown by Kam Air, Afghanistan's first post-Taliban private airline, vanished from radar screens Thursday afternoon as it approached Kabul airport in a snowstorm from the western city of Herat. There were 96 passengers and eight crew aboard.  <br> NATO helicopters spotted parts of the wreckage some 11,000 feet up Chaperi Mountain on Saturday, but freezing fog, low cloud and up to eight feet of snow had prevented alliance and Afghan forces from reaching the site.  <br> At the town of But Khak, German and French soldiers ran mine-detecting equipment over a makeshift landing pad that Afghan officials said would be used as a staging post, though the Afghan Defense Ministry said no bodies would be brought down before Tuesday.  <br>  At least 24 were foreign nationals: nine Turks, six Americans, four Russians, three Italians and one Iranian, as well as the captain, who held dual citizenship in Canada and Russia. According to reports, the Russians were crew members, the Turks were civilians working for Turkey-based firms, and the Italians included an architect working for the United Nations, as well as another Italian civilian and a navy captain. Three of the six Americans on board were women working for the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Management Science for Health company [http://www.msh.org/news_room/news_releases/04feb05.html Cristin (Cristi) Gadue, Amy Lynn Niebling, and Carmen Urdaneta] were Working To Expand Health Care For Poor In Afghanistan.
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* February 3 - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kam_Air_Flight_904 Kam Air Flight 904] crashed in Afghanistan killing 104 people.  The plane  was on the peak of the Chaperi Mountain, at about 20 km (12.5 miles) east of the Afghan capital of Kabul, in remote mountainous terrain on the side of Chaperi Mountain at an altitude of 3,300 metres (11,000 feet). The incident took place shortly after 4:00 pm on February 3 (local time), when a private Kam Air Boeing 737-200 jet aircraft in Afghanistan went missing during a domestic flight from the western city of Herat to Kabul International Airport in the capital of Kabul to the east. The crash is the deadliest air disaster in Afghan history.  <br> The aircraft lost communication during a snowstorm. The cause of the loss of communication, and the subsequent crash, is presently unknown. Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah said his guerrilla fighters had not shot down the plane and expressed sadness at the crash. Air traffic control for Afghanistan is provided by the US occupation force operating out of the Bagram airport. Bagram has become a US airbase and is the closest airport to Kabul where 904 could divert to land safely. <br> One theory is that the plane ran out of fuel after being turned away by US troops occupying the Bagram Airbase. Flight 904 could not land at Kabul due to bad weather and diverted to Bagram as a final choice. Bagram air traffic control refused permission to land even after being informed that Flight 904 had only 15 minutes of fuel remaining. This claim of landing clearance being denied by US air traffic control at Bagram was first published in the Pakistani print and Internet news and in an international shortwave broadcast interview on Radio Tehran.  <br> At Pol-e-Charkhi, where the ANA's Central Corps soldiers are based, Lt. Col. Kabuly Qadeer, commander of 2nd Kandak (Battalion), 3rd Brigade quickly gathered his soldiers, who mounted their vehicles and prepared to head to the Chenari Village at the base of the mountain. <br> Alongside the ANA were their U.S. embedded tactical trainers. The team's commander, South Carolina Army National Guard Lt. Col. Gordon Johnson Jr., said their mission was to support the Afghan soldiers in any situation that developed. <br> At the base of Chaperi Mountain, the 2nd Kandak and the U.S. advisers set up a command center to coordinate between ISAF and Central Corps headquarters. <br> First, the ANA set up two checkpoints leading into the area to limit the number of people around the crash site. <br> Next, Qadeer, a seasoned mountain fighter familiar with the terrain, accompanied 40 of his ANA soldiers aboard a BMP-1 armored personal carrier. Along with them was a local village elder to use as a guide in a rescue attempt.  <br> The Boeing 737-200, flown by Kam Air, Afghanistan's first post-Taliban private airline, vanished from radar screens Thursday afternoon as it approached Kabul airport in a snowstorm from the western city of Herat. There were 96 passengers and eight crew aboard.  <br> NATO helicopters spotted parts of the wreckage some 11,000 feet up Chaperi Mountain on Saturday, but freezing fog, low cloud and up to eight feet of snow had prevented alliance and Afghan forces from reaching the site.  <br> At the town of But Khak, German and French soldiers ran mine-detecting equipment over a makeshift landing pad that Afghan officials said would be used as a staging post, though the Afghan Defense Ministry said no bodies would be brought down before Tuesday.  <br>  At least 24 were foreign nationals: nine Turks, six Americans, four Russians, three Italians and one Iranian, as well as the captain, who held dual citizenship in Canada and Russia. According to reports, the Russians were crew members, the Turks were civilians working for Turkey-based firms, and the Italians included an architect working for the United Nations, as well as another Italian civilian and a navy captain. Three of the six Americans on board were women working for the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Management Science for Health company
  
 
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