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PIEDRAS NEGRAS — A plane carrying a load of auto parts crashed Sunday as it was trying to land in northern Mexico, killing the pilot and severely injuring the co-pilot.

The plane crashed before dawn Sunday half a mile from the runway in Ramos Arizpe, 200 miles south of the U.S.- Mexico border, said Segismundo Doguin, the deputy civil defense chief for Coahuila state.

The co-pilot suffered second- and third-degree burns and was in critical condition at a hospital in the nearby city of Saltillo, Doguin said.

The DC-9-15 freighter was operated by USA Jet Airlines, based in Ypsilanti, Mich. Company spokesman Donald McNeff said the crew members were U.S. citizens but declined to identify them. Mexican officials gave conflicting versions of the names. The plane was carrying car parts for a General Motors plant in Ramos Arizpe.

SEOUL — The American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it "would be permitted" to machine-gun 3,500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining approaching enemy forces.

In the early days of the Korean War, other American officers observed, photographed and confidentially reported on such wholesale executions by their South Korean ally, a secretive slaughter believed to have killed 100,000 or more leftists and supposed sympathizers, usually without charge or trial, in a few weeks in mid-1950.

Extensive archival research by The Associated Press has found no indication Far East commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur took action to stem the summary mass killing, knowledge of which reached top levels of the Pentagon and State Department in Washington, where it was classified "secret" and filed away.

Now, a half-century later, the South Korean government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is investigating what happened in that summer of terror, a political bloodbath largely hidden from history, unlike the communist invaders' executions of southern rightists, which were widely publicized and denounced at the time.

In the now-declassified record at the U.S. National Archives and other repositories, the Korean investigators will find an ambivalent U.S. attitude in 1950.

"The most important thing is that they did not stop the executions," historian Jung Byung-joon, a member of the 2-year-old commission, said of the Americans. "They were at the crime scene, and took pictures and wrote reports."

JERUSALEM — Israel TV on Sunday showed tractors working at a cemetery where Lebanese and Palestinian fighters are buried, part of a prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah.

Israeli military officials said the exhumation of bodies would begin today, and identification of the remains would take several days.

Israel approved the prisoner swap last week. In exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers captured two years ago by the Lebanese guerrillas, Israel is set to free Samir Qantar, a Lebanese serving multiple life terms for a grisly attack in 1979 in which a father, his two daughters and two policemen died. Also, Israel will free several other prisoners and return bodies of fighters.

GEORGETOWN — Guyanese authorities say a first-class airline passenger was so angry at seeing economy passengers leave a jetliner before him that he yanked open an emergency hatch and slid down the chute.

Police spokesman Sealall Persaud says the man appeared to be intoxicated after the Delta Airlines flight from New York.

Persaud said Sunday that local police arrested the man, who was quickly released on bail after the Friday incident.