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A White House official, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said authorities
have concluded there was no fire and no
distress call from the pilot prior to the
crash, as was previously believed. The of
ficial said earlier accounts contained in
formation that proved unreliable.
Some witnesses reported hearing an
explosion before the jet went down, said
Ginger Cruz, a spokesperson for Guam’s
governor, CarlT.C. Gutierrez.
saw it in the fog,
then there were these
bright red flashes. They
filled up the sky.”
Melissa Amett
Resident
Gutierrez, who was among the first on
the scene and pulled crying survivors from
the burning wreckage, said there were 32
confirmed survivors and he didn’t believe
any more would be found.
“It was eerie. As I got close to the scene
I could hear the screams,” he said. “We
only had a single flashlight. We had to fol
low the sounds to find them.... You could
not stand there and hear those screams go
on and not do it.”
Among the four or five survivors he
pulled from the plane was an 11-year-old
Japanese girl he found trying to tend to a
critically injured flight attendant. The girl
suffered only cuts and bruises.
“I had to go to the hospital with her,”
Gutierrez said. "She wouldn’t let my
hand go.”
The National Transportation Safety
Board sent an 18-member team from
Washington to investigate. The lead inves
tigator will be Greg Feith, who headed the
investigation of the Valujet crash last year
in the Everglades that was blamed on a fire
aboard the plane.
Before leaving from Andrews Air Force
Base, Md., NTSB Member George Black Jr.
said the voice and flight-data recorders
had been recovered from the wreckage.
The crash site is in a dense jungle, in
accessible by road. Rescuers using flash
lights had to make their way through mud
and razor-sharp sawgrass up to 8 feet high
to reach the wreckage.
Ttoo Navy CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters,
with pilots wearing night-vision goggles,
took at least 30 survivors to a hospital. The
injured included several people with burns.
With the jet still smoldering, Navy
Seabees began moving in backhoes to
crack open the fuselage and try to rescue
anyone who might still be alive.
The airport control tower lost contact
with the plane around 1:50 a.m. Wednes
day (11:50 a.m. EDTTuesday), said Jackie
Marati, an airport spokesperson. Police
confirmed about 40 minutes later that the
plane had crashed.
“I saw it in the fog, then there were
these bright red flashes. They filled up the
sky,” said Melissa Arnett, 15, who lives on
Nimitz Hill. “I didn’t know what it was, an
atomic bomb or what. We didn’t know
what was going on.”
The plane ordinarily lands at Guam
and then returns to Seoul as Flight 802.
A landing system known as the glide
slope, which leads planes to the runway,
had not been in service at the airport since
last month, according to sources at the
FAA, speaking on condition of anonymity.
According to a notice the agency sent pi
lots, the guidance system was to be down
for maintenance until Sept. 12.
When glide slope guidance is not avail
able, pilots can use other methods, in
cluding an electronic device that gives
them their distance from the airport.
Knowing that distance, they follow a
stairstep pattern to the runway.
The tiny island of Guam is the United
States’ westernmost possession. Its popu
lation is 150,000. Guam is 4,000 miles west
of Honolulu and 2,200 southeast of Seoul.
Roughly one-third of Guam’s 212 square
miles is taken up by U.S. military bases.
In another crash involving the airline,
269 people were killed in 1983 when Kore
an Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by a
Soviet fighter plane after the jetliner strayed
into Soviet air space, the company dropped
“Lines” from its name after the crash.
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Carey suggested it “makes sense
to start bargaining.” But Dickeps said
the company’s last offer was final and
should be submitted to the union
membership for a vote.
Labor Secretary Alexis Herman
spoke to the Teamsters chief, who
opposes presidential intervention,
and UPS chairman James Kelly by
telephone on Tuesday, urging both to
return to the bargaining table.
She said talks are important to
UPS and its workers, as well as
“countless other businesses, workers
and families, who are directly and in
directly affected by negotiations.”
White House spokesperson Mike
McCurry said President Clinton was
encouraging both sides to return to
the bargaining table but had no
plans to intervene because the ma
jor impact of the strike so far is eco
nomic. The president could step in if
the strike poses an imminent threat
to national health and safety.
Some hospital officials said a long
strike could cause major problems.
“Most of the items that come to us
by UPS are specialty items and those
would include operating room mate
rial, cardiac catheters, cardiac elec
trodes and things like that,”
spokesperson Bobbi Barrow said at
University Hospital in Denver. “We do
keep (extra supplies to last) about a
week or two, so we’re OK right now.”
Some small businesses were al
ready hurting.
“I’m pulling my hair out,” said
Mary Helen Hasby, who ships “cook
ie bouquets” from her Cookies For
You in Minot, N.D. Other carriers
won’t guarantee the on-time delivery
her cookies need.
Among the first casualties of the
strike were lobsters shipped from
Boston by one of UPS’ competitors,
which began falling behind last week
as the strike loomed.
Chicago-based Lobster Gram
canceled all shipments for the week
after 25 lobsters meant for a catalog
photo shoot arrived dead on Satur
day, and customers also com
plained that their seafood dinners
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Package delivery
As United Parcel Sevice nears
a strike deadline Thursday, its
competitors are gearing up for
increased business.
The estimated cost of sending a 35-pound
package from midtown Manhattan to Beverly
Hills, Calif., two-day priority mail.
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United Parcel Service
12 million packages per day
■ 1996 revenue: $22.4 billion
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were dead.
“We’re in trouble if there’s a pro
longed strike,” said George Zawacki,
whose father owns the company that
sends lobsters, crab legs and crab
claws along with cooking utensils for
home delivery.
At least nine strike-related arrests
were reported Tuesday morning, in
cluding five in Somerville, Mass., after
pickets tried to block UPS trucks. At
least 16 people were arrested on dis
orderly conduct and other charges
Monday in Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land, Illinois and Kentucky.
A UPS employee was arrested on
reckless endangerment charges
Tuesday after allegedly striking two
pickets with his car as he tried to en
ter a UPS terminal in Buffalo. One
picket was treated for a sprained an
kle; the other was not hurt.
A picket was arrested in Norwood,
Mass., after a police officer and sev
eral pickets were pushed up against
a moving truck.
Barn 's recent firearm faux pas should corneas
litlle surprise to those who followed histumulta
ti ion ai th<'UniversityofOklahoma.Svvitzerwas
Ik iu\ a t o!iege coach, even battling for a national
lit! i his eventual Poke predecessor Johnson
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priately, guns being fired in the athletic dorm.
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h it a troubled program before the NCAA low-
en t he boom, Miami is, by a few powers of 10,
inlit i i ntly more evil than Norman. Besides,it’s
not the college game that 's really the issue here,
It Suit/a a couldn’t control his players at OU,
who in his right mind would hire him to coach
ego-driven millionaires at the professional level
A shrewd owm i tired of battling for power withi
highly successful sideline sergeant, that'swho.
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28 yard-line some years back.
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shine hack on its star. It’s interesting to note
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