2 NAVY MEN KILLED IN CRASH ID'D.Byline: Staff and Wire Services LAKE ISABELLA Isabella, 1296–1358, queen consort of Edward II of England, daughter of Philip IV of France. She married Edward in 1308. Neglected and mistreated by her husband, Isabella nourished hatred for the royal favorites, the Despensers (see Despenser, Hugh le), who were responsible (1324) for the confiscation of her estates. In 1325 she was sent to France to negotiate with her brother Charles IV over Gascony. - Two Navy men who died in the crash of a China Lake helicopter on a rugged Sierra Nevada ridge have been identified. Lt. Cmdr. Jason Bayer, 36, of Carson City, Nev., and Petty Officer Charles Chaco Chaco, Chaco Austral, Chaco Boreal, Chaco Central, and Chaco War: see Gran Chaco., 22, from Agat, Guam, died in the crash of the Vietnam War-era HH-1 ``Huey'' helicopter, Navy spokeswoman Doris Lance said Friday. The helicopter was from China Lake's Naval Weapons Test Squadron, known as the Dust Devils dust devil: see whirlwind., whose members provide support research and testing for weapons. The craft had taken off from China Lake about 9:30 a.m. on a routine mission and crashed just before 1 p.m. near the top of Split Mountain in the Sequoia National Forest north of Lake Isabella. The cause of the crash remained under investigation. Television footage showed the fairly intact white helicopter wedged cockpit-down in a steep crevice gingival crevice the space between the cervical enamel of a tooth and the overlying unattached gingiva. crev·ice (kr  v . ``Visibility is very clear, just a few scattered clouds and just a slight breeze. So weather conditions were favorable,'' Kern County fire Capt. Doug Johnston said. ``I haven't any idea what caused the crash.'' |
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