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LD1409184295 MOSCOW ITAR-TABS ENGLISH 141753 -- AIR DEFENSE COMMANDER ORDERED DOWNING OF BALLOON 2. LD1409152895 MOSCOW ITAR-TABS WORLD SERVICE RUSSIAN 141422 -- COMMISSION PROVIDES 'MORE DETAILS' ON BALLOON .:~..: 000212849 *t* Document 45 of 25 for FBIS ?~* DoCN 000600394 FBIS F3IS 165SE?15 C~aS u.iCT_,AS 3I SU3J 3EL.a,~US: Findings on Balloon Shootdo~rn (Ta'te 1 of 2) SERI ;?^".1509_90795 Mosco~r :cO~tSOrtOLSK.aYA ?R.aVD~ ?1 Russian 16 Sep 95 pp TEXT 1-2 (Report by special correspondent Igor Sinyakevich: "Why did the People in the Balloon Keep Quiet?" -- first paragraph is editorial introduction) [F3IS Translated Text) The rem-tants of the balloon piloted by 55-year-old Alan Bernard Fraenckel (photograph on the left) (report is accompanied by small passport-style photos of the two men] and o3-yea=-old George Stuart (name as published) came down on +~ednesday near the village of Krugloye in Berezovskiy Rayon, Brest Oblast. Our correspondent dictated this report fron the scene of the tragedy. When the helicopter opened fire on the balloon, Olga Nikolayevna, an elderly inhabitant of Krugloye, decided that the war had started again, and hid under an apple tree. Her son Vasiliy, a senior warrant officer in the reserves, heard the shooting while he was ~::aving dinner and thought, "someone's had too much to drink, stolen a helicopter, and now he's firing at the dachas." If only..... Yuryy Sivakov, chief of the Belarusian Security Council quick =eection section and also deputy chairman of the commission exarnini~g the circumstances of the incident, summed up the initial rexults of the investigation. According to him, the border guards mere Che first to see the balloon. That was at 0991 hours. The duty officer for the Belarusian Air Defense Forces tried to establish the identity of the flying machine. But it turned out that neither the Air Defense Forces central cocrrnand point nor the other command points had any information of the possible appearance of balloons. The Belarusian Center for Navigation and O.ganizatian of Flights was also unable to clarify anything as regards the legitimacy of the appearance of flying machines of that type in the =epublic's airspace. The duty officer made inquiries of the Polish air Defense Forces duty officer as to whether any balloons had flown over Polish territory. No, they hadn't.... ? Thus, having discovered a "UFO," Major General Valeriy ecostenko, commander of the Air Defense Forces, gave the order to put the Air Defense Forces duty patrols onto number one readiness. At 1136 the order was given for an irii-8 combat helicopter to take off from ?ruzhany military airfield; it was supposed to approach the target, identify it, and report back to the control point. when the helicopter pilot saw the balloon at an altitude of 2,300 meters, he asked the control point for permission to approach the target. The order was issued to approach the target no closer than 50 s~eters. .he helicopter went to within 100 meters. The young captain reported that he could see a small balloon 3-4 meters in size (as published) with a closed type of suspended container resembling a freight container. There were no identification marks on the flying machine. The target did not reply to inquiries which were broadcast twice on the international frequency. The helicopter pilot was ordered to open warning fire and, in the absence of any response from the target, to destroy it. The helicopter maneuvered and, from a distance of 600 meters, =iced a round from a large-caliber machine gun to the side of the balloon. But even after that the balloonists did not reveal their presence in any way. Three minutes later, 20 12.7 mm bullets had reduced the balloon to tatters. The container, which subsequently turned out to be a gondola with people in.~t, began to fall. Buz .. ... ,x:.u .. :~:;.., 000212849 even then the pilot did not see the people. (more) (THIS R:,PORT MAY CONTAIN CO?YRIG6T.~D f4aTERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHI3ITED tcET_:iOUT ?S?JfISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT O~vZ~RS . ) 15 SAP 21452 i '