To address the needs of the emerging business aviation community
in Asia, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA)
announces the debut of the Asian Business Aviation Conference &
Exhibition (ABACE). NBAA first will host an ABACE Forum in Hong
Kong, China on July 15 and 16, 2004. Modeled after successful
NBAA-sponsored events in the United States, Europe and Latin
America, the ABACE Show will debut in Shanghai, China the following
summer. Dates for ABACE2005 will be announced shortly.
A small plane carrying a medical team and a heart for a
transplant patient crashed Tuesday in Sardinia, killing all six
people aboard, officials said. The Cessna Citation 500 had taken
off from Rome's Ciampino airport and was bound for the Sardinian
city of Cagliari when it lost radar contact with air traffic
controllers over a mountain range about 20 miles from Cagliari,
said Capt. Francesco Di Simone, a spokesman for Italy's air force.
On board were two pilots and a four-member medical team that had
picked up the heart at a Rome hospital and was returning back to
Sardinia for a transplant, Di Simone told Reuters by telephone.
Italian news reports said the two pilots were Austrian.
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