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WASHINGTON (AP) — The pilot of
Ita Flight 1141, which crashed on
akeoff near Dallas last August, told in-
/estigators he thought he could fly his
oeing 727 out of trouble but said he
should have applied full power much
sooner, according to government docu
ments.
The plane crashed several thousand
feet beyond the runway and burst into
flames, killing 14 of the 108 people
iboard. The Delta Air Lines flight was
bound from Dallas-Fort Worth to Salt
Lake City, Utah.
Documents released Monday by the
National Transportation Safety Board
said that while Flight 1141 had no prob
lems as it rolled down the runway, it en
countered almost immediate trouble after
liftoff and rolled violently from left to
right.
Seconds after Capt. Larry Davis, 49, a
veteran Delta pilot, raised the plane off
the ground there was an unusual “snap”
noise followed by a vibration of the con
trol column, a warning that the aircraft
was about to stall, according to the docu
ments.
Davis told investigators he first
thought they would make it but then
more bangs were heard and he had a sen
sation the plane was losing power and
“pulling us backward . . . .”
But according to the documents made
public Monday, Davis did not apply full
engine power for about 22 seconds after
the first unusual noise and nearly 20 sec
onds after the stall warning system began
to activate.
Even after a series of five engine com
pressor stalls and an exclamation by Da
vis that “we’re not gonna make it” the
captain did not call for “full power” for
another eight seconds. The first sound of
impact came less than a second later.
According to aviation experts, the nor
mal procedure when an aircraft is about
to stall during takeoff — when a plane is
dangerously close to the ground — is to
apply maximum power.
In an interview with investigators
from his hospital bed several days after
the accident, Davis, according to the
documents, said: “In retrospect, I should
have pushed up full power immediately”
— when there was an indication of stal
ling.
Although Davis said he sensed a loss
ofenginc power, investigators, after clo
sely examtniftg the thfcd'engineS, have
ruled out any mechanical engine failure.
It is widely believed the compressor
stalls were caused by an interruption of
proper air flow, which could be caused
by a plane flying at an unusual angle.
Davis acknowledged to investigators
that after the plane rotated off the runway
he continued to pull back the control col
umn, raising the nose of the aircraft to an
unusually high angle. At one point the
angle was so severe he no longer could
see over the aircraft’s nose, the docu
ments said.
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Davis said he did so because he feared
imminent impact with the ground.
The investigation continues to focus
on the possibility that the flight crew
failed to set the plane’s flaps properly,
inhibiting its lift. The NTSB previously
has said that the flaps were found in a re
tracted position in the wreckage as was
the cockpit lever controlling the flaps.
Investigators also have closely exam
ined two “click” sounds on the cockpit
voice recorder tape of flight 1141 to de
termine whether they might have been
co-pilot Carey Kirkland setting the flaps.
But one document released Monday con
cluded that after sophisticated sound:
tests it was determined that the two'
clicks do not match sounds of the actual
setting of flaps on a similar aircraft.
In fact, said the NTSB document, no
noise pattern could be found on the entire
cockpit voice recorder tape that matched
the pattern heard when flaps were set on
a test aircraft.
On the other hand, the same tape also
shows — as had previously been made
known — that the co-pilot acknowledged
that the flaps were in the correct position
during a routine pre-flight checklist.
“Flaps,” the flight engineer Steven
Judd was heard to say.
“Fifteen, fifteen, green light,” re
sponded Kirkland, 37, referring to the
proper flap degree setting.
Kirkland has told investigators he re
calls nothing after the plane departed
from the gate.
Court rules
prayer case
as frivolous
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Prisons
don’t have to supply free prayer shawls,
sermon tapes or religious books to in
mates, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals ruled Monday.
The court upheld U.S. District Judge
William Wayne Justice’s decision that
Donald Ray Frank’s lawsuit against the
Texas Department of Corrections should
be dismissed as frivolous.
“We agree with the District Court’s
observation that ‘(t)here cannot possibly
be any constitutional or legal require
ment that the government provide
materials for every religion and sect
practiced in this diverse country,”’ the
5th Circuit said.
Frank, who is Jewish, claimed his
freedom of religion was violated because
the department wouldn’t give him reli
gious materials including six books, a
prayer shawl, sermon tapes and a kippah
— the skullcap also called a yarmulke.
The 5th Circuit noted that Frank does
not claim he is not allowed to worship or
that he is discriminated against because
he is Jewish.
Actor Houseman
dies in home at 86
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — John
Houseman, the producer who terrified
millions with the “War of the Worlds”
and won an Oscar for intimidating his
students as the imperious law professor
in “The Paper Chase,” died Monday.
He was 86.
Houseman died at his seaside home
before dawn, said Ivan Goff, a family
friend and scriptwriter. Margo Harley, a
longtime friend and colleague, said he
had spinal cancer.
Houseman brought a magnetic eloqu
ence to the role of the curmudgeon and
gained wide fame while in his 70s as
Professor Charles W. Kingsfield in “The
Paper Chase,” a role he first played in
the 1973 film and then in the television
series.
He parlayed his fame and his distinc
tive speaking style into a lucrative series
of commercial endorsements, including
ads for the investment firm Smith, Bar
ney in which he growled, “They make
money the old-fashioned way — they
EARRNNN it.”
“Behind that austere public posture
was the warmest, most generous man in
the world — with his time, his remarka
ble intelligence, his insight,” writer Da
vid Rintels, who collaborated with
Houseman on the movie “Gideon’s
Trumpet” and the play “Clarence Dar-
row,” said.
Actor Kirk Douglas said, “He was a
gentleman of the old school, polite and
courtly. He had wonderful manners. He
was an unusual character and I’m going
to miss him.”
While he was best known for his work
on screen. Houseman’s passions were
for the theater, writing and teaching. His
acting students included Kevin Kline,
Robin Williams, Christopher Reeve,
Patti LuPone and David Ogden Stiers.
Houseman appears in the new Woody
Allen film, “Another Woman,” in
which Stiers plays a younger Houseman.
At the time of his death. Houseman
had achieved what he told friends was
his ultimate dream: the establishment of
The Acting Company, a touring theat
rical ensemble of the nation’s brightest
talents.
Houseman co-produced the “War of
the Worlds” radio drama for Orson
Welles. He later apologized for the na
tionwide panic induced by the program
about invading Martians, which aired 50
years ago Sunday.
Born Jacques Haussmann in Romania,
the veteran actor, director and producer
launched his career in 1934 as the direc
tor of a Broadway production.
Cousin of slain child
charged with murder
FORT WORTH (AP) — A murder
charge has been filed against a step-
cousin in the slaying of Michael Toston,
a 5-year-old who was bludgeoned and
dumped in a field near his grandmother’s
east-side apartment complex either Oct.
22 or 23, police said.
Homicide Sgt. Paul Kratz said Sirron
Hicks, 18, was charged Monday.
Michael had last been seen about noon
Oct. 22. He was reported missing about
90 minutes later by his mother, who had
come to pick him up after he had stayed
overnight with his grandmother.
The boy’s body was discovered by a
cousin the morning of Oct. 23, less than
100 yards from his grandmother’s front
door in a wooded area that had been
searched the previous night by neigh
bors, patrol officers and police dogs,
Kratz said.
Kratz said police had been puzzled
why someone would dump the body in
an area that already had been searched by
police and neighbors.
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