Teen dies after campfire accident

SOUTH BERWICK (AP) – A 16-year-old boy from South Berwick has died in a Boston hospital of burns suffered last Wednesday during an accident at a campfire along Silver Lake in Shapleigh.

Jason Caouette suffered burns over 90 percent of his body when he poured gasoline onto the smoldering campfire to reignite it, the state Medical Examiner’s Office said. The stream of gasoline ignited, causing the metal five-gallon can to explode.

Caouette was transported to Maine Medical Center and later airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he died Saturday.

Charles Hayes, 17, of Shapleigh, suffered burns to his feet in the explosion.

Logan runway collision avoided

BOSTON (AP) – Air traffic controllers at Logan Airport avoided a potential runway collision between a passenger jet and cargo plane on Monday.

A FedEx cargo jet was being moved for maintenance when it crossed a runway without clearance at about 8 a.m., Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters said. A JetBlue passenger jet had already been given clearance to take off from that runway.

Air traffic controllers spotted the FedEx plane as it was crossing the runway and told the JetBlue craft not to take off, Peters said.

FedEx spokeswoman Sally Davenport said the company was cooperating with the FAA’s investigation of the incident.

There have been 12 “surface incidents” at Logan since Oct. 1, 2004, Peters said. In the same time period, there have been two other incidents when something was on a runway while a plane was taking off or landing.

Monday’s incident was less serious than a June 9 near-miss. Two planes were cleared to take off from Logan within five seconds of each other, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board. Radar images obtained by The Boston Globe showed that a US Airways Jet was traveling at 167 miles per hour and came within 171 feet of the intersection where an Aer Lingus plane was taking off at 198 miles per hour.