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Page 6 • Monday, September 7, 1998 World — — ■ 1 —— »attalion Bad weather slows divers’ search for SwissAir 111 flight recorder HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Murky, choppy seas hindered divers looking Sunday for the fuselage and flight recorders of Swissair Flight 111. Ashore, worshippers mourned the 229 victims at memorial services; one minister broke into tears. Canadian navy and coast guard ships, as well as police and military divers, were trying to track down tan talizing signals and sonar readings that might lead them to the MD-ll’s fuselage and flight recorders under about 190 feet of water. The diving operation was slowed by poor visibility at lower depths and 6-foot swells on the surface. But Capt. Jason Proulx said divers managed to narrow the search field for the flight recorder signal to a 75-yard radius. Proulx said a large object detected by sonar on the seabed Saturday turned out to be a rock, not the plane’s fuselage. Help for the searchers was on its way. The USS Grapple, a U.S. Navy supply ship which helped in the deep-sea investigation of the TWA Flight 800 crash in 1996, embarked Sunday from Philadelphia with a team of divers and special equipment for underwater recovery operations. Those not involved in the salvage effort have been barred from the en tire search area. Soldiers searched the shoreline for debris and human re mains. Identifying the victims was expected to take weeks. On land, victims’ families and resi dents were still trying to come to grips with the tragedy. More than 300 fami ly members have flown to Halifax from New York, the plane’s starting point, and Geneva, its intended destination. “This has been a horrible week” said the Rev. Richard Walsh, pausing to choke back tears in his first sermon of the day at St. Peter’s Anglican Church. “I’m sorry, I’ll be OK.” The Swissair plane crashed Wednesday, 16 minutes after the pi lots reported smoke in the cockpit and decided to attempt an emer gency landing. The plane started to ward the Halifax airport, but made two sharp turns as it tried to de scend and dump fuel. In Zurich, Switzerland, Swissair officials said they had reconstructed the final phase of the flight, based on information from Canadian investi gators. They said the plane could not have made a direct approach to Hal ifax from where it made the first dis tress call because it was flying too high and was too heavy. The call was made 70 miles out of Halifax, but the pilots would have Swissair tragedy Orvers cartw closer to iindtng the ‘biack baxos” and continued to search tor other clues to unlock the mystery of Right 111 s crash A look at tt?e flight path Flight data recorder. Until* x NOVA SCOTIA c , wmqMlss perrnteafcjr to Crew makes distress css rvouMting an # 0 Inndrfig — Q \ Ihw . w , tlinh ^ communicaticws from CANADA Appro*, v* ' minutes inter the ) a>rcrati crashes nto (he water -V 10 Half* 8:18 p.m. EDI „ Departs toHnita. Kennedy tfY'L 3X0001 K*tol MB needed 130 miles to make a direct landing, Swissair’s chief pilot, Rain er Hiltebrand, said. However, he said attempting to land in Halifax was still better than trying for Boston, which the pilots suggested to controllers. Swissair said memorial services for victims would be held Friday in New York, Geneva and Zurich. A series of memorial services was planned over the next several days in Halifax and surrounding towns. RESUMES: $40 S U I T : $ 2 I 0 Business as usual (7.N. inspectors continue to check Iraqs surveillm BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — While U.N. arms inspections have been sharply limited by Saddam Hussein’s government, one group of inspectors is still busy. But they go only where Iraqi officials expect them to. These monitors check re mote-controlled cameras and sensors at potential weapons- making sites, making sure noth ing has been tampered with in the surveillance program to en sure Iraq is not renewing weapons production. The monitoring crews are re sponsible for inspecting about 300 sites around the country. “They are busy,” said Nils Carl- strom, the inspector chief in Bagh dad. “There are day inspections, night inspections, all the time.” The monitoring goes largely unno ticed because it involves sites visited dozens of times before, causing some to question how much the monitoring can really do to prevent Iraq from se cretly resuming arms production. The monitors’ work con trasts with the surprise visits to new sites that are now blocked by Iraq. The last six or seven disarmament inspectors who did that work left Baghdad on Aug. 8, three days after Iraq an nounced it was halting cooper ation with the U.N. Special Commission in charge of arms inspections since Iraq’s defeat in the Persian Gulf War. Until the commission declares that Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction, trade and other sanctions im posed after Iraq’s 1990 invasion “There is an illusion of arms control taking place. 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