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April 19, 2006

Air sickness strikes 14 cadets on cargo plane ride

NORTH KINGSTOWN -- Fourteen boys and girls were briefly hospitalized this afternoon after they complained of nausea and dizziness during an orientation flight on a Rhode Island National Guard cargo plane.

None of them are in serious condition, according to Lt. Col. Michael McNamara, a Guard spokesman.

"It was classic motion sickness across the board," he said. "They anticipate everybody being sent home, back to camp."

The youths, ages 12 to 18, were among a group of 86 Civil Air Patrol cadets riding in a C-130J Hercules cargo plane today as part of a week-long training program held in Rhode Island each year.

Among other activities, the cadets ride helicopters and military planes, McNamara said.

The plane was out of Quonset Point. The majority of the cadets are from Rhode Island, he said, but some are from New York and Massachusetts and other states.

The group of cadets will graduate from the program Saturday at Camp Varnum in Narragansett.

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