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'OH 8LL/EB/RPOF HAPPINESS, CAN .ONE EXIST ON . DREAMS? y Joe Transfer by Dan Baric J(|0ell,... iruooLCiPPeAt.. | 1 mAT 1 WALLED ACCcrs-S out OF A^M'-s telaDitiou-s'. I TO 5L££PU^kAT X w Answer sought to caus of recent plane crashes! Investigators probe wreckage of Detroit jet By Elisa Hutchins. Staff Writer he The emotional impact of the Northwest Airlines jetliner crash August 18 that left 157 people dead and one survivor has eased. Investi gation is continuing into the cause of the accident and into Finding solu tions for the large number of recent plane crashes. Sharon Kadlec, a Northwest rep resentative, said, “The investigation is difficult because the plane is in so many pieces. Our personnel are working with the FAA (Federal Avi ation Administration) and NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) as well as pilot union mem bers, but we’re not going to say any thing until after the investigation. And even then, the facts will speak for themselves.” Several theories about the cause of the crash have been circulating. John Lauber, an NTSB employee, said he couldn’t hear the captain or first officer give a check call for the flaps or slats on the voice recording. It was later reported that an eyewit ness, a Northwest co-pilot on an other plane, said he saw the flaps and slats extended. Jerry Virden, of FAA operations in San Antonio, said it will be months before the investigation team arrives at a conclusion. “The flaps, slats and the entire en gine have to be sent back to the man ufacturer to be taken apart and looked at,” Virden said. “The proc ess takes weeks.” The “black box,” or flight corder, should have the answers said, and the NTSB, which has re sponsibility for determining the facts, will find them. The Detroit crash is one of a re cent rash of commercial and private plane accidents. One of the similari ties in each of the aftermaths is that people always want someone to blame, Virden said. “They blame the air-traffic con trollers or the crew,” he said. “It has been so bad recently that the govern ment is feeling the heat from the public.” This accident and several other small plane crashes that didn’t have flight recorders have touched off de bate between the FAA and Appro priations, a Transportation depart ment subcommittee. The NTSB issued a list of 17 changes it would like the FAA to make involving airline regulations. One change involves lowering the number of passengers the FAA al lows on a plane before it requires any type of recorder. This would force some smaller aircraft to have flight and/or voice recorders installed. Currently, all turbojet airplanes that carry 10 or more passengers, most of which are commercial air craft, are required by FAA regula tions to have a flight and voice re corder. A turbojet has no props. There are no regulations on small, light-engine aircraft to have recorders. Small turboprop planes — not pure jet planes, that have props — can carry up to 29 people without a voice and flight Small turbojets that carry 101 people are only required to 1 voice recorder. If the jet cart more than 30 people, FAA mi mandate a flight and voice records But I rai nk Rex c:k, of the OffiDCj Airwort hir icss in W; ishinglon, D|J said it’s to< < <\[)( rnsr i <* tor sinalli craft to ha 1 ve rec< >rd< •i s mstnlledij they wc decr< ac< idents ai way. “The ers, but said. P r oblem ombir is n talk <x flight reemj m of thingil -pr esenta live of Fairchi Westin, recor der manufactu!' said the ini tial co- st is aroundJ1W| and insi all; at ion < OSt! s can be ask| as $15,C >00 , depe ndi ng on the pkl and oth. er 1 Factors Ron Sw Terski, of FAA aviatl safety in S ian A i nor do, said hurt: error is th e caus ;e o f about 85 p ; cent of all- an d la t ge-airplane| cidents. “The bi| ggest | prol )lem we ha'tl what’s f joii ig on in a pilot’s mte bwiersk i sa id. “It i aii craft as tedil logically 1vance d a; i Northwest 1 ! line’s twin- engin< ■ jet — a McDortJ Douglas ; N ID-80 there is going oi a al ttakeo ffti me.” Depa rtn tent of Transport^ consum er reco rds indicate uj Ifyoi your to pa day, 9:151 Northwest Airlines ranked secomij customer complaints for the J half of the year. The airline hacU complaints in July. The FAA cited Northwest inf ractions of Federal Airline N lations so far this year. Former governor appears in cool to organize set ling off of assets AUSTIN (AP) — Former Texas Gov. John Connally met with his creditors in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Thursday, saying he hopes to start fresh after getting the best possible deal for them in selling off his assets. “The only plan I have right now is ... to dispose of my assets, all the personal assets and the realty, to the maximum benefit of the creditors, and then I’m going to start over,” Connally told a news conference after meeting with creditors. Connally and the Barnes-Connally Partnership have filed separate bankruptcy actions. Harvey D. Caughey, trustee of Barnes-Connally and related partnerships, said after a meeting of the partnerships’ creditors that he expects even unsecured creditors to receive some re payment after disposal of assets. “It’s premature for them to have a lot of hope, but it’s premature for them to give up the ghost,” Caughey said. “I frankly expect they’re going to get something.” Connally spent about an hour on the witness stand. He answered questions about his financial situation from both creditors’ lawyers and his attorney, Myron Sheinfeld. In statements filed with the court Wednesday, Con nally listed liabilities of $93.3 million and assets of just over $13 million. “I cashed all the stocks I had, all my life’s savings, I put into the company in order to try to keep it operatio nal ... to see if we could get the refinancing or the reca pitalization,” Connally said. Connally said he hopes the court will allow Har^' leries of Houston to auction off his personal propel 1 ' January. He said he wants to sell his real estate qui ts but methodically enough to obtain a fair price. “I hope we’re not under such pressure frofl 1 creditors that we have in fact a fire sale of the tea 11 .; tate,” he said. Connally predicted the court wou pose of all his property by late spring. Connally said he could not give an exact estint^ what his real estate holdings will bring on the nW p For example, he said, a 2,600-acre ranch he own* miles from San Antonio could increase in value if'0 1[ approve pari-mutuel horseracing. “I would anticipate that a major track would [rtf bly be built in the East Side of San Antonio,” he said so, it couldn’t be over 30 or 40 minutes from that^ Hills Ranch, and it would be a beautiful horse-train 1 ! area.” The ranch now is valued at $1,250 an acre, said. Connally said he would have done things differe 11 ' had he known that oil prices would drop and cause' 1 economic -slowdown he blames for the failure of® Barnes-Connally real estate ventures. “The people who came to Goliad and who cantf the Alamo took a few risks, and fpr what?” Conn* asked. “For what they thought Was right. If you hope j| achieve anything in life, you have to take a few risks £ u