The World : Angola to Free U.S. Pilot
Angola today will release American pilot Joseph F. Longo, whose plane was shot down two months ago after it strayed over the southern African nation, Angola’s state-run news agency ANGOP reported. A dispatch from Luanda, the Angolan capital, quoted an unidentified official as saying that Longo, 33, of Greenburg, Pa., would be released to a U.S. congressional delegation due to arrive in Luanda today. U.S. officials say Longo was ferrying the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza to a customer in South Africa when he was downed April 21 in southern Angola.
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