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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 213-95
April 20, 1995

ARMY IDENTIFIES C-21 ACCIDENT VICTIM

The Department of the Army has identified the Army sergeant killed in the crash of an U.S. Air Force C-21 Learjet near Alexander City, Alabama on April 17. He is Sergeant Pedro Sanchez Mercado, Corpus Christi, Texas. He was assigned to the Defense Information Systems Agency, Arlington, Virginia.