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Crash investigator says
wet cloths saved lives
United Press International
FLORENCE, Ky. — The 23
people who survived a fire
aboard Air Canada’s flight 797
may have saved their lives by re
maining calm and putting wet
cloths over their faces, a federal
investigator says.
Donald Engen, a member of
the National Transportation
Safety Board, said Sunday a
copilot, Claude Quimet, may
have saved pilot Don Cameron,
who was credited with bringing
the smoke-filled plane to an
emergency landing Thursday
night.
Authorities listed smoke in
halation as the preliminary
cause of death for most of the
23 victims.
Based on interviews with
crew and passengers, Engen
said split-second actions during
11 minutes — the time between
a decision to land and the touch
down — made the difference be
tween life and death.
“Things really began to go to
pieces rapidly,” he said.
During that time, “white, then
gray, then black” smoke rapidly
poured from the rear restroom
into the rest of the cabin and
through the open door to the
cockpit.
“The pilot put on eye goggles
and an oxygen mask,” said En
gen. “All passengers who sur
vived had some sort of wet cloth
over their face.
“A washcloth, a Kleenex, a
vest, they all had something over
their face to protect them from
the smoke. They also leaned
over and put their head between
their legs,” he said.
Asked if the people killed had
not used wet cloths, Engen said,
“I can’t say that. We just don’t
know.”
He said oxygen masks in the
passenger compartment were
not deployed “because of the
concern” for fueling the fire.
Despite smoke so thick one
passenger said it was impossible
to see the seat in front of her,
Engen said, “There was no panic
in the cabin. It was ‘amazingly
quiet,’ to quote some passen
gers. The absence of any panic
enhanced the escape a great
deal.”
Engen reaffirmed it was
“highly probable” an electrical
fire produced the thick deadly
smoke. As for where the fire be
gan, he said he remained “high
ly suspicious” of a rear restroom,
where passengers first noticed
smoke.
But Engen said “nothing de
finitive” had been determined.
John Kennedy Jr. receives
college degree from Brown
United Press International
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — John
F. Kennedy Jr., his mother smil
ing proudly, marched Monday
in a procession through the city’s
historic East Side to receive his
baccalaureate degree at Brown
University. Kennedy, 22, tall
and angular, was lost in the sea
of 1,400 black-robed graduates
until a swarm of photographers
crowded him. With news camer
as clicking, his classmates
formed a tight circle around the
impassive Kennedy, son of slain
President John Fitzgerald Ken
nedy.
family
p£
looked on.
Kennedy’s sister, Caroline,
smiled and waved at Kennedy as
he joined his classmates in the
processional march led by mar
shals in top hats and tails.
The Ivy League school’s
215th commencement began at
8:30 a.m. from the Green of the
College Hill campus, winding its
way through the historic district
The graduates were to gather
in the First Baptist Church to
hear an address by Brown Presi
dent Howard Dearer, then
march back up College Hill for
the formal awarding of degrees.
Many members of the famous
family were on the Brown cam
pus over the weekend, to visit
Kennedy and hear his uncle.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-
Mass., speak at one of the col
lege’s commencement forums.
Sister Caroline also attended.
Kennedy broke a longstand
ing family tradition when he de
cided to enroll at Brown. His
grandfather and three uncles all
went to Ivy League rival Har
vard University.
Kennedy said he chose Brown
because he wanted to stay out of
the limelight, which he has done
quite well except for an occa
sional mention in the media.
Gaining attention were Ken
nedy’s acting debut in a campus
production in his sophomore
year, his launching of an organi
zation to help students under
stand South Africa’s apartheid
system, and his trip to Municipal
Court in the fall of 1981 to pay
$108 in overdue traffic tickets.
Kennedy has not made public
his plans after college, but he has
an avowed interest in a tradi
tional family calling — politics.
Makeshift ramps built
over Utah floodwaters
United Press International
SALT LAKE CITY — Con
struction crews finished
makeshift ramps to carry drivers
over the “State Street River,”
and police had airplanes and
helicopters ready Monday to di
rect more than 100,000 commu
ters into flood-plagued Salt
Lake City.
Crews blasted a clogged
storm drain with explosives Sun
day in an attempt to contain the
record mountain runoff. Offi
cials urged more than 100 resi
dents to move out of homes pla
gued by backed-up sewage, but
they did not officially order an
evacuation because the raw sew
age stopped short of the homes.
The major freeway ramps
into the downtown area — used
by nearly 25,000 drivers on
workdays — lead to streets that
cross State Street, now dubbed
the “State Street River” because
work crews have lengthened to 2
miles the stretch of road car
rying tons of runoff from the
hills overlooking the city.
Workmen constructed 4-foot
high hills to help motorists driv
ing on the freeway on-and off
ramps, the most heavily used in
the city. Two-foot diameter cor
rugated pipes were rammed
into the dirt hills to carry the
water underneath the makeshift
9,000 people generally travel to
the downtown area during the
average day to shop or do busi
ness, police figures show.
Salt Lake City flood control
spokesman Paul Barber said
officials were forced to lengthen
the river streaming down State
Street to 14 blocks to relieve
pressure from the rushing
spring runoff from City Creek
Canyon.
ramps.
Another 85,000 motorists
commute to the city by other
routes. Police scheduled extra
men and helicopter patrols to
help direct that traffic.
In addition to the 110,000
daily commuters, an estmated
Barber said workmen ex
tended the controlled river
down the middle of the city be
cause the storm drain designed
to control the runoff was plug
ged for more than half a mile
with silt and rocks carried into
the system by the canyon runoff.
Houston
man still
missing
United Press International
TEXAS CITY — The Coast
Guard has called off its search
for a Houston man, 31, who dis
appeared Saturday night while
swimming near the Texas City
dike.
Coast Guard officials said
Thomas Jackson Jr. was using
an inner tube and swimming
with another man when he dis
appeared about 9 p.m., Satur
day. Searchers combed the area
Saturday and Sunday without
finding Jackson.
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CBS, Rather cleared
in defamation ruling
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LOS ANGELES — A jury said
CBS and Dan Rather did not
show “reckless disregard for the
truth” in a “60 Minutes” seg
ment that linked a doctor to a
fraud scheme, ruling against the
physician in a $4.5 million de
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“The verdict strikes a blow
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Dr. Carl Galloway, who
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known newsman had damaged
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been vindicated.”
Galloway told ABC if he had
won the suit “it would have put a
proper responsibility on the
news-gatherers.”
After three days of delibera
tion, the jurors ruled the net
work, Rather and the producers
of the highly rated TV program
did not act with a “reckless disre
gard for the truth” when linking
Galloway to the scam in a De
cember 1979 segment titled “It’s
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Rather and a “60 Minutes”
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ly involved in an insurance scam.
Galloway did not appear on the
show but was implicated when
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