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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1979
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IRVING — Inadequate air traffic
control computer systems are creat
ing an “incredibly dangerous situa
tion” that is responsible for incidents
such as the near-collision of two jet
liners over Texarkana, officials of the
Airline Passengers Association said
Wednesday.
APA President James R. Philon
said near-collisions and computer fa
ilures that cause loss of communica
tion between airports and pilots are
becoming more common. The Avia
tion Safety Institute reports there
are as many as 20 narrow misses a
day, he said.
Two American Airlines jets, car
rying 230 people, came within 600
feet of each other Tuesday night
when the Fort Worth “en route traf
fic control” center, one of 20 in the
nation, was without computer capa
bilities — knocking out radar screens
— for four minutes.
Federal Aviation Administration
officials were investigating to deter
mine if the problem was related to a
weekend outage at the Dallas-Fort
Worth Regional Airport. Computer
failure left the airport without radar
for eight minutes and without radio
communication for four minutes.
“It’s an incredibly dangerous
situation, incredibly dangerous,”
Philon said. “And it goes beyond
DFW. Outages across the country
are incredible. They’re sitting there
with worn-out equipment — Korean
War vintage — and sometimes not
even parts are available.
“The most sickening part of all this
is there’s 3.8 billion dollars in a trust
fund in Washington that’s ear
marked for just this kind of improve
ment. And it’s sitting there not being
spent because they’re buying
artwork in Atlanta to put in the new
terminal.”
APA spokesman Dean Meddors
said the FAA would provide more
sophisticated computers in 1980 but
that an air controllers organization
said the new system would be out
dated quickly. The auxiliary compu
ter system is even worse, he said.
“We re dealing here with a backup
system — broad band — that’s 20
years old,” he said. “It’s not as good
as the primary system but with all
these outages, it’s needed.”
FAA spokesman George Burlage
said the weekend computer problem
was caused by a power fluctuation
and failure of the auxiliary computer
but no cause had been determined
for the Tuesday night problem.
The planes, both “stretch” version
Boeing 727s, were inbound to Dallas
from Little Rock and Nashville.
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United Press International
CHICAGO — About 15 to 20 mil
lion Americans suffer chronically
from insomnia, according to a recent
report in the Journal of the American
Medical Association.
Drs. Thomae J. Coates and Carl
High Court backs family in debt case
reported that nonprescription medi
cations have little impact on insom
nia, except for “placebo” effects, and
hypnotic drugs obtained by pre
scription often lead to dependence,
tolerance and escalating doses.
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AUSTIN — A low-income
family which pledged its televi
sion, refrigerator, and washer
and dryer as security for a loan to
meet living expenses is entitled
to $26,000 in damages because
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necks possible.
the loan company solicited cri
minal charges against the man to
force payment of the debt, the
Texas Supreme Court ruled
Wednesday.
The court, without written
comment, upheld lower court de
cisions awarding the $26,000 to
James M. Myers, a Dallas resb
dent who borrowed $298.25 to
help meet living expenses while
he lived in Wood County.
Myers had obtained the loan
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TRILOGY: PART I
THE EIGHT
FIRST OF THREE ART EXHIBITIONS
FROM THE COLLECTION OF
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Group tours available by appointment at 845-1914
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EL PASO — A Massachusetts teen-ager charged in a weekend
attempt to hijack an American Airlines jetliner to Iran has been
transferred to a Missouri hospital to undergo tests to determine
whether he is “presently insane.”
Gerald James Hill Jr., 18, of Chester, Mass., was transferred to the
Medical Center for Federal Prisoners at Springfield Tuesday on tlie
order of U.S. District Judge William S. Sessions.
Hill’s court-appointed lawyer, El Paso attorney John Langford wing teachi
submitted a motion Monday seeking an evaluation for Hill, whowas sional organ
discharged from the Army in October for “mental reasons,” accot
to an FBI agent.
Langford also filed a motion Tuesday peeking postponement of Hills
preliminary hearing before a U.S. magistrate, which had been setfor
Thursday.
Langford’s first motion requested that Hill he examined “to deter
mine if the defendant is presently insane or otherwise so mentally
incompetent as to be unable to understand the proceedings against
him” or to aid in his own defense.
Although Sessions ordered the center to evaluate Hill “as soon as
possible, ” the defendant could remain at the Missouri facility up to90
days.
Hill is charged with assaulting, intimidating and threatening crc»
members on the Los Angeles-bound flight last Saturday. If convicted,
he could face up to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. If evidenceis
presented indicating a deadly weapon was used in the assault, heco
face a maximum life sentence upon conviction.
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