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Page 8/The Battalion/Tuesday, October 1,1985
World and Nation
Cessna crash
blamed on
overloading,
tainted fuel
Associated Press
JENKINSBURG, Ga. — A single
engine plane whose crash killed the
pilot and 16 skydivers carried con
taminated fuel and may have been
overloaded, federal aviation investi
gators said Monday.
A black discoloration was found in
the right fuel tank of the Cessna 208
Caravan, said Jim Burnett, chairman
of the National Transportation
Safety Board. Investigators did not
know what had contaminated the
fuel, or its source, he said.
The Federal Aviation Administra
tion said it grounded the plane Fri
day because of contaminated fuel,
but Burnett said the plane’s owner
took off without correcting the prob
lem, which would have been a viola
tion of FAA rules.
Burnett, speaking to reporters at
the crash scene 50 miles south of At
lanta, said maintenance workers at
an Atlanta air freight company re
ported that the plane’s fuel last
Thursday was ‘‘the color of black
coffee,” instead of its normal amber
color.
The plane’s weight limit for its
flight Sunday was 3,115 pounds,
Burnett said. The West Wind Sport
Parachute Center estimated that
each parachutist carrying equipment
would weigh 200 pounds.
“I’ll let you do the mathematics,”
he said.
The weight of the pilot and fuel
would be added to the estimated
3,200 pounds weight of the par
achutists in calculating the load, but
Burnett said the NTSB had not de
termined the actual weights.
Mechanics working for Midnight
Express at Fulton County Airport,
an air freight company which was
considering using the plane, discov
ered that the fuel was bypassing the
fuel filter through a mechanism that
is activated when the filter is
clogged, he said.
An FAA inspector at the airport
Friday was told of the fuel contami
nation and therefore did not certify
the pilot for flight, Burnett said.
“As far as I can determine, no fur
ther action was taken by the FAA,”
Burnett said. “The FAA inspector
did not have a form” that he could
have placed on the plane, grounding
it until the fuel problem was cor
rected.
After the FAA inspector left, the
plane’s owner, David Lee Williams,
ignoring the warnings from the FAA
and the mechanics, flew the plane
from Fulton County Airport, an
nouncing his destination as DeKalb-
Peachtree Airport, Burnett said.
The plane’s next known location was
the parachute center in Jenkinsburg.
Hicks said the plane made a nor
mal takeoff from West Wind Sport
Parachute Center and apparently
was in the air only a few seconds be
fore it crashed less than a mile away.
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Transcripts: Flight 191 crew
was anxious about storm
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In the min
utes before Delta Flight 191 crashed
while trying to land at the Dallas-
Fort Worth International Airport, a
thunderstorm was clearly apparent
and a pilot who had just landed no
ticed what he thought was a tornado
along the approach.
But National Transportation
Safety Board documents indicated
Monday the pilot of Flight 191 never
was warned of the storm’s severity.
Less than 10 minutes before the
crash he was told by air traffic con
trollers that there was “only a little
rain” north of the airport.
Investigators have speculated that
the Aug. 2 crash, which killed 136
people, was caused by wind shear, a
severe change of wind direction that
literally forced the Lockheed L-1011
jumbo jet into the ground as it was
about to land.
A transcript of exchanges in the
cockpit just before the crash sup
ported the wind-shear theory be
cause the crew could be heard strug-
ling to increase power amid the
ackdrop of engines revving to max
imum power.
“Push it up, push it way up, way
up,” pilot Edward Connors exnorted
his co-pilot, Rudolph Price Jr.
“Way up,” Price responded, with
the sounds of the engines increasing
power and the “whoop, whoop, pun
up pull up’ warning of the ground
proximity alarm in the background.
This was followed by a sound sim
ilar to a landing and someone say
ing, “Oh . . .” and what the NTSB
called a non-printable word. Almost
immediately there was the sound of
a second impact and silence.
The flight, from Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., was bound for Los Angeles with
an interim stop at Dallas when it en
countered heavy rain, lightning and
trecherous winds short of the run
way. The plane first touched down
_in a field, bounded across a highway
where it struck a car and crashed
into water tanks before bursting ini: |
flames.
According to the transcript free
the cockpit voice recorder, tnt cm
was concerned during theapproac
about severe weather in theim :
Several times they criticized aittni I
fic controllers lor di reeling them too |;
close to a severe weather cell.
“We’re going to get our airpk
washed,’’ Price, a 15-year veten:
with Delta, remarked. A short ditt:
later, about 90 seconds before &:
crash, he observed lightning “rigls
ahead of us” as the plane continuct
its descent.
As they spoke, another Delti
crew, its plane taxiing away fromtl*
runway after having landed, already
had noticed the severe weatk
along the approach path.
About 2V* minutes later, the tw
Delta crew members, neither ri
whom was identified, saw the fnelai
beyond the runway where Flight 181
had crashed.
Islamic fundamentalists vow to resii
attacks by Syrian-supported milith
Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Syrian-
supported leftist militias launched a
series of attacks Monday on besieged
Moslem fundamentalists who vowed
to resist “to the last drop of blood.”
The Palestinian-backed Tawheed
Island, or Islamic Unification,
movement beat back repeated at
tempts by four other militias to push
into the heart of Tripoli in the sav
age struggle for power.
The city’s streets were strewn with
bodies. Police said they had been un
able to gather a casualty report since
Saturday, when they said at least 273
people were killed and 714 wounded
since Sept. 15.
Several hundred Syrian par
atroopers with tanks ringed the port
city and appeared ready to join the
battle if their allies failed to break
through the dogged Tawheed de
fenses.
Associated Press photographer
Rex Henderson reported a battalion
of Syrian paratroopers was spotted
on Tripoli’s southern outskirts along
with nine Syrian T-54 tanks in a con
voy with 106mm guns and field artil
lery.
On bluffs east of the city, Syrian
and militia artillery bombarded the
western sector of Lebanon’s second-
largest city where the black-scarved
Tawheed fighters are trapped on a
peninsula around the port.
A telephone caller describing
himself as Tawheed’s Beirut spokes
man told the AP that the movement
held all its positions.
“We shall fight to the last drop of
blood,” said the caller, who would
not give his name. “Our dead go to
heaven and theirs to hell.”
The heart of Tripoli has been laid
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waste by shellfire and rockets sina
the fighting broke out. Tripoli’sgot
ernor, Iskandar Ghibril, fledthtdti ’
Monday to a makeshift headquarten
on the outskirts.
■
He told the state radio that,“Dot;
ens of casualties lie uncared for it;
the streets. The fighting is veryut
age.”
So far, the estimated 7,500Syra:
regulars around Tripoli haveonk
provided covering fire and dashtc
periodically with Tawheed outposts
They have not yet been thro*:
into the fighting, which beganwic
clashes between Tawheed and tin
Syrian-backed Arab Democrat
Party. The two factions have foujlt
intermittently for two years for®
trol of the city.
Botha refuses to offer blacks full voting rights
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
— President P.W. Botha offered
some concessions to South Africa’s
black majority Monday, including
the possibility of seats on the advi
sory President’s Council, but ruled
out full voting rights. He said the les
son of black Africa is that one man,
one vote “means the dictatorship of
the strongest black group.”
Botha declared his commitment
to a united nation that allows for
black rights, but said any future sys
tem must protect the rignts of whites
and other minorities m South Af
rica, which has been swept by more
than a year of violence against white-
minority rule.
The 60-member President’s
Council advises the government on
legislation. It was restructured last
year to include mixed-race and
Asian members, after legislative
bodies with limited power were es
tablished for those minorities. But
whites remain in control.
Rioting continued in black town
ships. Police said mobs killed three
blacks and set fire to their bodies in
the latest outbreak of black-against-
black violence.
More than 700 blacks have been
killed since rioting began against
apartheid, the race laws that guar
antee privilege for South Africa’s 5
million whites and deny rights to the
24 million blacks. Most died at the
hands of police, but some are victims
of other blacks who accuse them of
being informers or of cooperating
with the white government.
Botha offered no specifics in his
speech to a congress of his ruling
National Party in the Cape Province
city of Port Elizabeth. He said details
must be negotiated.
It contained none of the bellicos
ity that characterized his remarks to
the Durban party congress Aug. 15,
in which he said full voting rights for
blacks would take the white minority
“on a road to abdication and sui
cide.”
Disappointment over the tone and
contents of the Durban speech
caused international reaction that
thrust the country deeper into finan
cial crisis and sent its currency to
new lows on world markets.
The president said in Port Eliza
beth that structures must be built to
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give blacks effective power over
their own communities, in cities as
well as tribal homelands, and a say in
matters of concern to all people of
South Africa. Copies of the speech
were distributed to reporters in Jo
hannesburg.
Botha presented a view of South
Africa as a nation of minorities, in
cluding several within theblackcoir
munity, and said any reforms mis
protect all of them from dominatiot
The central question, as Bothaa
pressed it, is how to include not
white minorities in a constitution
system built by whites over tilts
centuries — “tnat is, how they®
share in a liberated South Africa
Hard liquor sales peak
during rush to beat tax hike
Associated Press
Vodka, whiskey and scotch dis
appeared from store shelves
across the country Monday as
customers put in a final rush to
buy their booze ahead of an in
crease in federal liquor taxes.
“We’re having a mad rush,”
said Mike Bordenave, a St. Paul,
Minn., liquor store clerk as peo
ple carteu out cases of liquor and
cordials. Stores around the coun
try reported sales up from 30 to
50 percent.
The sales rush peaked hours
before new federal rules went
into effect, increasing taxes byan
average 19 percent. Starting at
12:01 a.m. Tuesday, drinkers
were taxed $12.50 for each gallon
of 100 proof booze, up $2 from
the old rate of $10.50 a gallon.
“Customers have been aware
of the increase,” said Harold
Kraun, manager of a Hamilton,
N.J., liquor store. “The customers
that can afford it are doing the
heavy buying.”
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