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The Battalion
Friday, September 13,'
Officials find recorders in eras!
Frids
Investigators retrieve 'black box' from tail section of aircraft
Who
what
where
when
and
why?
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EAGLE LAKE (AP) - Federal
investigators on Thursday re
moved the "black box" recorders
from the wreckage of a twin-en
gine Continental Express plane
that crashed in a corn field, killing
all 14 aboard.
Continental Express released
the names of 11 passengers and
three crew members aboard Flight
2574, but the Harris County Medi
cal Examiners officials continued
work to identify positively the re
mains Thursday.
Tine dead included seven Mex
ican nationals, a crew of three
from the Houston area, and peo
ple from Laredo, Texas; Sterling
Heights, Mich.; Quito, Ecuador;
and Phoenix, Ariz.
The Mexicans included three
young couples from Monterrey
heading to Canada together for a
vacation, said a spokeswoman in
the Mexican Consulate in Hous
ton. The other Mexican was a
prominent social activist from
Ciudad Juarez.
The Brazilian-built Embraer
120 commuter plane was en route
from Laredo to Houston's Inter
continental Airport, crashed about
10:30 a.m. Wednesday, about 75
miles west of Houston, spewing
wreckage over a four-mile stretch
of southeast Texas farmland.
Investigators from the Nation
al Transportation Safety Board
and six other agencies found the
voice recorder and the flight data
recorder in the tail section of the
shattered aircraft just before noon
Thursday.
Though somewhat dented
from the crash, the shoe-box-sized
orange boxes "appear to be in fair
ly good condition," said NTSB
Chairman James L. Kolstad. "We
really can't tell the conditions of
the recording until we get inside."
The voice recorder provides a
taped record of cockpit conversa
tions, while the flight data
recorder records the aircraft's
speed, altitude and other parame
ters. The two boxes were shipped
to the NTSB laboratory in Wash
ington for read-outs and analysis,
said NTSB spokesman Brent
Bahler.
"We may have some
nary information from black hi
Friday night," Bahler said.
A new federal regulationtl
goes into effect Oct. 11 requj
that both boxes be in the tail off
aircraft, Bahler said.
"This aircraft was ahead
schedule," Kolstad said.
NTSB crews led investigate
at the site from the FBI, Fede
Me
Aviation Administration,Con: foott
O
nental Airlines and its
owned subsidiary. Continental! j^efor
press; Empresa Brasileira deAei
nautica SA, the plane manufadi
er; Pratt & Whitney Canada,!:
engine manufacturer; and the!i
tional Air Traffic Controller Ass
ciation, Bahler said.
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Chief exec,
employees
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’Killer’ bees attack Texas map
DALLAS (AP) — A former ex
ecutive and three other employees
for a failed Colorado City thrift
have plead guilty charges of bank
fraud and conspiracy, federal offi
cials said.
Neva C. Turner, the former
chief executive officer of First
Western Savings & Loan Associa
tion, was charged Wednesday in
Dallas with participating in a con
spiracy to steal more than $500,000
for investment in the stock market.
The indictment also names
three former employees of the
West Texas thrift.
Katy Byrd, Roy Byrd and Mar
ilyn Roberts were all charged with
conspiracy.
The defendants have reached
plea bargain agreements with fed
eral prosecutors and all have
pleaded guilty, according to FBI
Agent Oliver B. Revell.
McALLEN (AP) - African
ized honeybees attacked and
stung a South Texas man more
than 300 times in the first major at
tack by the so-called "killer" bees
in the United States, authorities
said Thursday.
Adan Garza, 65, was released
Thursday afternoon from Mission
Hospital, where he was treated for
the stings, officials said.
Garza was attacked Wednes
day about 10 miles west of
McAllen while clearing brush near
an abandoned shack where the
bees had built a hive, agriculture
officials said.
Preliminary tests conducted by
the Animal and Plant Health In
spection Service confirmed the
hive was contaminated by
Africanized bees.
"This is the first severe inci
dent," said Elba Quintero, manag
er for the U.S. Department of Agri
culture's Africanized honeybee
project. "We have had three or
four (small) incidents. But this is
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bees last May. The only fatal sting
ing recorded in the Rio Grande
Valley was a dog killed by the
bees in July.
The bees, often called killers
because they attack in swarms and
pursue prey for long distances,
were first sighted in South Texas
last October following a decades-
long journey from Brazil.
They have been spreading
through the Americas since 1957,
said.
However, the bees are expe;
ed to continue their spre:
throughout the region, said Fra:
Eischen, a scientist at theTei
A&M Research and Extensic
Center.
"What we expect is thattel
density ot the honeybee colori
will go up, and that's primarii
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drivi
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the si
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due to the influx of Africanizli
id. "Wll
"When you have a higher density of
bees, you have a higher probability of
people running into them."
Frank Eischen,scientist,
Texas A&M Research and ExtensionCenter
honeybees," Eischen said
you have a m
when African queen bees escaped
from an experiment in Brazil and
began breeding with more docile
European bees. The Africanized
bees are their descendants.
density of bees,™
have a higher ptf:
ability of peo:,..
running into I
The bees beg|
swarming again! (
the area this mq , •
and will continlf, P
through October,! , 11 1 "
said. ip so
But he added that hivesal Wei
more dangerous than the swarc?Jfon't r
A Brownsville man survived
after being stung 18 times by the
APHIS trappers on Thursday
combed the area where Garza was
attacked, but it was apparently
clear of Africanized bees, Quintero
because they have staked out ten ready 1
tory and are reproducing. fwe've ]
"They have every reason: l['s tim
defend that," Eischen sa:bh ern ii
"They're like a homeownel y 0 c
they're going to defend th-:| )arent .
home." ■ ,
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mie thi
Two more die as cholera
spreads in Mexico City
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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Two
people have died of cholera in
Mexico City and more than 800
people nationwide have contract
ed the disease, the Health Depart
ment said Wednesday.
The two who died — an adult
and a 5-year-old child — were
members of the same household
in the Iztapalapa neighborhood on
the eastern fringe of the city, de
partment spokesman Eduardo
Arvizu said.
They died last week at home,
Arvizu said.
He said 22 cases have been
confirmed in four different city
neighborhoods — Iztapalapa,
Xochimilco, Tlahuac and Iztacalco.
Another 20 suspected cases are
under observation in those neigh
borhoods which lie on the south
and east edges of the city.
Arvizu said health officials
have not discovered any common
thread linking the Mexico City vic
tims, most of whom were people
of modest means.
"The cases are very dis
persed," he said. "If anything, the
common denominator was poor
, „ Blse I Si
hygiene. ■ ,.
He said health officials wem 01 ^ )e
interviewing victims and thfl* 16 v n ° l
families and neighbors, searchi;| * p l
for the source of infection. K— yes,
"We're not standing in t:|ixpresj
doors of the hospitals waitingffflack. I
sick people to show up,” hesaic|v\'ouldi
Cholera has spread to ninei] • \
ferent states and Mexico City 2%^ pa
sickened 808 people since it w; §[1'^
discovered in Mexico thrf| 7
months ago, Arvizu said. |P 0 . j 1
The worst hit states are ^
go, with 392 cases, and Pueblii* 6 "/ ^
with 185, he said. * Lt
Arvizu said health officialsafound i
confident cholera can be corlknow t
trolled in Mexico City becausef!with ki
the availability of health care fadll n( j ^
ities. Jferyday
"People are close to hospita ', jS
and attention can be very fast Kir ^
don't see it as very dangeroiiL., 1
here," he said. "There is a chawr^ ^ 8
of responding rapidly in the city 1°° f” 0 }
The Western hemisphere's fc| as hue
cholera epidemic of the centurjAggies
began in January in Peru. *Won't t
More than 2,500 people havi
died in Latin America fre
disease this year.
Texas girls die from
exhaust system fumes
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Tior-
ivio and Angela Mancillos bought
an old truck recently so the farm
workers could take their four
daughters back to Pharr, Texas, to
begin school.
Now they have to find the
money to send three of them home
for burial.
A defective exhaust system ap
parently caused the carbon
monoxide poisoning deaths of
three of the girls this week. A
fourth remains at Children's Hos
pital in Seattle.
"I'm hoping the truck and the
camper were sold unknowingly
with this problem," said Maggie
Cuellar-Lopez, a friend who has
given the family shelter in a sub
urban Seattle home.
"They are just taking it step by
step," Cuellar-Lopez said. "She
tends to cry a lot and let a little bit
out. He is holding everything in."
The family lived each summer
in Lynden, about 90 miles north of
Seattle, and had finished harvest
ing berries and cucumbers in that
area.
They were heading back to
their home in Pharr so the girls
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They stopped near Cle Eluu i ,
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along Interstate 90, and thefom
girls were found unconscious it
the truck camper.
They apparently asphyxiated
when carbon monoxide fume!
from the 15-year-old truck leaked
into the camper, Cuellar-Lopez
said. The Kittitas County coronei
is still investigating and hasnol
determined the cause of death.
One girl was dead at the scene
One died at a hospital in Yakima
A third, 11-year-old Sylvia, died
Wednesday at Children's Hospital
in Seattle.
Yadira Mancillos, 14, remained
in satisfactory condition into
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hospital, spokeswoman Susan pusdu
Macek said. She is suffering mem
ory loss, and does not know aboiii
his sisters' deaths, Cuellar-Lopez
said.
The other victims were identi
fied as Arangelica, 13, and Maria
del Rosario, 10.
The parents and an 18-year-old pining
son were riding in the front
were not hurt.
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