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Transcripts from jet crash release
New Delhi airport flight controllers notified both pilots of a nearby pla
CHARKHI DADRI, India (AP) —
As a Kazak cargo plane flew head-
on toward a Saudi jetliner, con
trollers told its pilot to watch out
for the 747 in the clouds ahead.
The pilot asked how close it was.
“Fourteen miles,’’ a con
troller said.
Seconds later: “Thirteen miles.’’
The pilot’s acknowledgement
of that message was the last word
New Delhi airport flight con
trollers had from either aircraft
before they hit and spun to earth
in spectacular twin fireballs, tak
ing 349 people to their deaths.
The exchanges, in transcripts
released Wednesday, indicate the
planes did not see each other in
time and hint that the pilots were
misled by their instruments or
misunderstood the tower’s direc
tions. They were supposed to
pass with a 1,000-foot difference
in altitude — instructions that the
Saudi plane’s pilots never con
firmed, the transcripts show.
The Saudi Boeing 747 was sev
en minutes into its flight and the
Kazak plane was descending for its
final approach into Indira Gandhi
International Airport when the
collision occurred Tuesday about
60 miles southwest of New Delhi.
Whether there was a last-
minute evasive maneuver by ei
ther plane was unclear, but India’s
top civil aviation ministry official
said the crash was not direct.
“It was not a head-on colli
sion,” Yogesh Chandra said at a
news conference. “The cockpit
and fuselage of the Kazak airliner
was found intact.”
Searchers retrieved hundreds of
bodies from wreckage strewn in a
six-mile area around Charkhi
Dadri. Grieving relatives tried to
identify the badly mangled re
mains of their loved ones lying on
blocks of ice at makeshift morgues.
Many of the victims of the Sau
di Airlines flight that carried 312
passengers and crew apparently
were Indian workers returning to
jobs in the Middle East or making
the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca;
the Kazak plane carrying 37 peo
ple had been chartered by a
clothing company in Kazakstan.
A weeping Irene Colaso said
she identified her 20-year-old
daughter Sanim, a flight atten
dant on the Saudi plane, by her
feet — the rest of her body was
burned beyond recognition.
Searchers found the flight
data recorders of both planes
Wednesday but only the cockpit
voice recorder of the Kazak
plane. The recordings were not
made public immediately.
But flight control transcripts
showed that the airport tower
instructing the Kazak plane to
fly at 15,000 feet and the Saudi
plane, which was ascending, to
level off at 14,000 feet. The Saudi
plane never acknowledged the
order to hold its altitude.
The tower then tells the Kazak
plane’s pilot that the Saudi aircraft
is 14 miles away: “Identified traffic
12 o’clock reciprocal. Saudi Boeing
747, 14 miles. Report in sight.”
The Kazak pilot replied: “Re
port how many miles?
“Fourteen miles now,” the
tower said.
Moments later, the controller
told the pilot that the Saudi
plane was just 13 miles away,
flying at 14,000 feet.
The aircraft were traveling at
hundreds of miles per hour at the
time of the crash; the Boeing 747
takes off at about 200 mph,
reaching a maximum speed of
600 mph, while the slightly slower
Ilyushin-76 flown by Kazakstan
Airlines lands at about 150 mph.
At that speed, the planes head
ing toward one another were eat
ing up about six miles per
minute. With 13 miles separating
the two aircraft, the pilots had
just two minutes to avoid a crash.
The exact cause of the crash,
the third-deadliest crash in
tion history, may take mom
determine. But speculatioi
ready has focused on antiq
radar equipment and poor
munications. Brnheprol
Chandra, the civil aviatic: I youth i
ficial, said the army has res: don’t R
ed air space over Delhi, reduleir rights,
the airport to only one aircT
dor for civilian aircraft in (
and taking off.
A.K. Bhardwaj, assistant
eral-secretary of the Air In
Controllers Guild, said hisn
had been demanding sep:
corridors because trafficai
airport has increased from
daily arrivals and depart;
three years ago to as mar
290 now.
Bhardwaj also said the
ment he and his colleague
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direct planes is inadequate, mat he had a
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country is using this sort ofnmtable again
which gives only the imagecsnudent durir
aircraft. It doesn’t show imh^d been awe
altitude,” Bhardwaj told Thsneech, he co
sociated Press. “The contr margued his’
handicapped by missing onealpons. But ur
cial piece of data.” • Be American
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each other at different al fight for they
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Intel expands to China, Costa Rica, Texa
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Intel Co., the
world’s largest maker of computer chips, an
nounced Wednesday it is continuing its global
expansion with a $1.3 billion advanced-logic
wafer fabrication factory planned for Texas and
assembly-test plants in Costa Rica and China.
Twenty-five years ago, Intel invented the
microprocessor, the brains of most personal
computers. With sales last year of $16.2 bil
lion, it has rapidly become one of a handful of
companies that are shaping the personal
computer industry. In addition to chips, it
makes personal computer, networking and
communications products.
The company has been considering the
Dallas-Fort Worth area for a plant since 1993.
Its plan for the Fort Worth area includes a
75,000-square-foot “Class 1” clean room, which
are 3,000 times cleaner than a hospital room.
The company said the factory will build ad
vanced logic products on 0.25 micron tech
nologies and then progress to smaller geome
tries in the future. One micron is equal to ap
proximately one hundredth the thickness of a
human hair.
The first phase will encompass 800,000
square feet, employ over 800 people and he
operational by 1999, the company said.
The new Texas plant will be near Fort Worth
Alliance Airport and part of the 8,000-acre in
dustrial park owned by developer Ross Perot Jr.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel is negotiat
ing tax breaks and other economic develop
ment incentives with local officials.
This is not the company’s First venture into
the Lone Star State.
“In the early ’80s, we had a small software
company in Austin that we had bought. So
there have been Intel employees in Texas. But
this is our first manufacturing facility within
the state,” said spokesman Howard High.
At what will be Intel’s assembly-test plant in
San Jose, Costa Rica, the company initially will
build two manufacturing buildings at a cost of
pari of a patte
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more than $300 million. It is expected youth has a r^
ploy 2,000 people over the next few years .at his classmai
scheduled to begin operations in early 199f 1 Under a net
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Shanghai, China, has already begun, joinin.behavingyout
struction on plants in Malaysia, Israel and I nate classes to
Intel also has major domestic sites ir youths that act
gon, California, New Mexico and Arizon.; time, they ma>
High said the company has been ex; ivith behaving
ing at a rapid rate and needed to movt avc ” or “specia
some new areas. listrict can do
I he company announced stronger-tlfc Bill 1, parte
expected third-quarter earnings last nioorm package|
up 41 percent over the same periodlastprelastyear.il
and attributed to sales that surpassedS5:rutch to Texas
lion for the first time. teed a way to t
Analysts say Intel, maker of the Pen: But what bi
Pro microprocessor, has been able to pilire straits tha
because of its dominant position in (heirample on th<
ket and because it does not make ,'hildren to ins
chips, a kind of memory chip that has Jf
sharply in price.
Panhellenic
Continued from Page 1
The new sorority will hold informal rush in
Spring 1997. In the fall of 1997, they will hold
formal rush with the rest of the sororities.
Hanson said the Panhellenic Council will
publicize the new sorority.
“We will do collective advertisement with
the sorority in January,” she said. “A national
representative from the sorority will be here
in January to recruit for new membership.”
Hancock said it will be exciting to have a
new sorority on campus.
“They will have the opportunity to start
something fresh,” Hancock said. “It offers
a lot of opportunity.”
Margge Robinson, Panhellenic presi
dent and a senior bilingual education ma
jor, said A&M chapters are growing com
pared to Greek systems elsewhere.
“Being Greek makes other experiences
better at A&M,” Robinson said. “It gives you
more chances to do other things.”
Citation
Continued from Page 1
If granted, the amount of the appeal bond is
credited to the student’s fee statement.
In a letter to PTTS, Miller included a state
ment outlining the time he spent throughout
the appeal process. He claims he has spent an
amount of time equal to $40.50, which he
hopes will be reimbursed by PTTS. He valued
his time at $15 per hour.
Tom Williams, PTTS director, said the warn
ing was issued as a courtesy.
“We try to encourage people to leave the van
spaces open,” Williams said. “We issue very few
tickets to people with handicap tags. And we try
to accommodate their needs the best we can.”
Williams said although it is not technically
illegal for people with handicap tags to park in
van spaces, PTTS tries to reserve those spaces
for vans with wheelchair lifts. Handicap park
ing, he said, is a major issue confronting Texas
universities.
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Miller said PTTS has not maintainelf
original reasoning behind the warning,
letter to Miller, PTTS stated that the dial
was “in reference to the nature of theveltj
that was parked in the space, not the validirl
any existing handicap.” FI ome rule
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cause his pickup was “parked in an accessavent; women
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