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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] FM-US ambassador

[02] Four dead in F-4 crash

[03] F4 jetfighter crashes

[04] Corsair pilot dies

[01] FM-US ambassador

Foreign minister George Papandreou met Thursday with the American ambassador in Athens Nicholas Burns to discuss preparations for the minister's meeting with his US counterpart, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, on the sidelines of a NATO ministerial conference in Florence next week.

[02] Four dead in F-4 crash

Four people, including two teenagers, were killed Thursday when a Hellenic Aiforce jetfigher crashed into a house Thursday in Antikyra village, Viotia prefecture, in the second Airforce jet crash in 48 hours.

The two-seat F-4 fighter plane crashed at 10:50 a.m. into a two-storey house, shortly after taking off, together with a second F-4, from the airbase at Andravida on a training flight.

The F-4's two pilots were killed in the crash, as they failed to use the automatic ejection system.

The jet crashed into the two-storey house and burst into flames. A young woman managed to escape the blaze, but fire-fighters later discovered the charred bodies of two girls, aged 15 and 16, who were at home studying.

[03] F4 jetfighter crashes

A Hellenic Airforce jetfighter crashed into a house Thursday in Antikyra village, Viotia prefecture, and the two pilots were missing, the Air Force General Staff (GEA) said.

The two-seat F-4 fighter plane crashed at 10:50 a.m. GEA said the fate of the pilot and co-pilot on board was not known, and it was feared they had not ejected.

It was also unclear whether there was anyone inside the house at the time of the accident.

[04] Corsair pilot dies

The pilot of a Hellenic Airforce jetfighter that crashed during take-off at Hania airport died in hospital early Thursday.

The pilot, Lieutenant Dimitrios Agiasofitis, succumbed to serious injuries sustained when his subsonic A-7 Corsair veered off the runway at Hania airport on the island of Crete Tuesday as it prepared to take off, and burst into flames.

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