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The Battalion
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Continental reassigns
employees after crash
EAGLE LAKE (AP) - A
dozen Continental Express main
tenance employees who worked
on a commuter plane the day be
fore it crashed have been tem
porarily reassigned and will un
dergo routine drug testing, federal
investigators said Saturday.
Crews replaced the de-icer
boot, an inflatable attachment
made of fiberglass and covered
with rubber, used to break ice off
the tail, said Jim Kolstad, chair
man of the National Transporta
tion Safety Board.
Two maintenance technicians
worked on the right side while an
inspector removed 43 screws from
the left side, he said.
The screws were not replaced
before the Embraer 120 Brasilia
left Houston Intercontinental Air
port Wednesday morning for
Laredo, Kolstad said.
On the return flight from Lare
do, the twin-engine plane sudden
ly descended, killing all 14 people
on board.
"There is a conflict in testimo
ny between individuals who claim
they informed the next shift that
work had begun on the left hand
side," Kolstad said at a Saturday
night news conference near the
scene of the crash.
He added that workers from
the second shift claim they had
not been told.
In a prepared statement, offi
cials said, "a portion of the FAA
(Federal Aviation Administra-
tion)-approved general mainte
nance manual was not followed
with respect the completion of
work on the left hand leading
edge.
"Because these procedures
were not followed, individuals in
volved have been suspended by
the company from their mainte
nance duties pending the comple
tion of the investigation and have
been temporarily reassigned to
non-maintenance administrative
duties at another company facili
ty-”
Continental Express has not
commented other than to say it
was premature to speculate on the
cause of the crash.
"We want to know what's up
more than anyone," spokesman
Art Kent said Friday.
The 9-foot-long rubber boot
has not been recovered and was
the object of a massive search that
included the use of all-terrain ve
hicles and a helicopter.
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performance in the Mexican Independence Day festivities
held Sunday from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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B-CS lives up to No. 3 ranking, local official says
By Troy D. Hall
Tl'ie Battalion
Area residents might have
been surprised to learn that
Bryan-College Station was named
third in Money Magazine's " Top
300 Places to Live" in the United
States, but this news was no sur
prise for the newly appointed di
rector of the local chamber of com
merce.
People often take for granted
all the things the Bryan-College
Station area has to offer to its citi
zens and visitors, says Dick
Forester, who took over the direc
torship Sept. 2.
"The truly wonderful thing
about this community is that it has
so much to offer its visitors," he
says. "I have been here for a week
and a half and am amazed at the
amount of things to do that many
people, even local residents, are
not aware of."
Forester toured the Messina
Hof Wine Cellar in Bryan recently
and was impressed with the win
ery's operations and entertain
ment value.
He said this is just an example
of what the area has to offer
tourists.
Tourism ranks third as the
largest industry in Texas and
ranks number one in the world.
Forester says the Bryan-Col
lege Station area's tourism and
business conference industry has
steadily grown in the last several
years and likely will continue to
grow.
"There is the potential for sig
nificant growth in the tourism and
conference industry in the Bryan-
College Station area," he says.
The chamber of commerce
sponsors the Housing Bureau.
Visitors planning a trip to the area
can call a number and staff mem
bers will assist visitors in finding
hotel rooms for A&M events, con
ferences or any other reason.
The chamber keeps an accu
rate record of hotel-motel occu
pancy in Bryan-College Station
and even the surrounding cities.
Forester says the telephone is
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always ringing and the bureau is a
great success.
"This is an example of the kind
of response that will further devel
op our economy," he says.
During A&M home football
games all of the approximately
2,200 hotel rooms are booked.
This estimate means that between
4,500 and 5,000 people are spend
ing the night in the area and each
person is spending an average of
$80 each day while in the B-CS
area, he says.
As a result, the area receives
more than $800,000 in revenues
each home football game week
end. He added that this is a con
servative estimate and does not
even include visitors who stay
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the area only for the day.
Forester says what is ei
more significant about Bryan
lege Station is it brings "cli
money" into the area and
tional city services are rai
needed to facilitate the
tourist industry.
Taxpayer money is not use;
develop the tourism industry
says. Attracting more tourists:!
conferences to the area is fu:%
solely from the local hotel-m:«AP) -
tax. F
"The more tourism dollar'|§ ur 'd a
receive means the more we car poliut
to attract more tourism and cc ?zone
ferences into the Bryan-Colle: holler
Station area," he says.
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