** Missing Senegal air ambulance may have collided with larger plane, investigators say
** California paramedics found dead in murder-suicide
SENEGAL NEWS
** A missing air ambulance that disappeared Saturday evening may have collided with a Boeing B737.
That is the word from Quartz Africa (Omar Mohammed/September 7) which said the SOS Medecin Senegal
flight vanished from radar screens some 60 nautical miles from Dakar’s coast. According to the news service,
initial ideas that the aircraft ran out of fuel have now been replaced with the theory of mid-air collision.
The other aircraft believed to have been involved was a Ceiba International Airlines plane bound from Dakar
to Cotonou, Benin. That aircraft was forced to make an unscheduled landing in Malapo, Equatorial Guinea.
The Senegal plane, meanwhile, carried six people, including a French patient, 3 crew, 2 nurses, and a doctor.
It was en route to Dakar from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso at the time.
UNITED STATES NEWS
** Two California paramedics are dead following an alleged murder-suicide Sunday. The Los Angeles
Times (Richard Winton/September 8) identified the pair as La Canada-Flintridge residents Cecilia Hoschet
and her husband James M. Taylor, 35. According to the newspaper, the bodies were found in separate
locations after a voice on an emergency radio, believed to be Taylor’s, alerted authorities to their whereabouts.
Hoschet was at their home, while Taylor was located at his place of work. Although Hoschet and Taylor
were both trained paramedics, Hoschet was currently working as a county sheriff’s deputy, while Taylor was
with the fire department. The two had a six-year-old son who was dropped off with relatives after Hoschet was
murdered and before Taylor killed himself. Although financial difficulties may have played a role in the
deaths, police say there was no known history of domestic violence and no divorce proceedings.
