European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 d the stars and stripes wednesday april 10, survive crash this couple and crash landed monday at Airport Cal to. Lor above Washer for Bir r7t_ a after Ite says heroism Bers escaped it a work . Wage terrors my univ forces with Battlefield action dite4, to. Of Raj Ristl 5 pc e la ror attacks a bom under a , army b a r r a along the Central coast the survivors fleeing irom the building were machine gunned. An american military communique be Amoric killed and Peri attacks i tilled to i i. Coome crumbled in our favor by John Sims London up a new zealand born Grandfather whose unflappable Calm brought burning jetliner to safety insisted tuesday his heroism was Only routine teamwork. The cookie crumbled in our favor said capt. Charles Tay Lor 47, of the emergency land ing which saved the lives of 121 of the 126 passengers and Crew aboard a British overseas air ways corp. Boac Boeing 707jetliner monday. Four passengers and one air stewardess died when explosions and flames engulfed the plane Asit skidded to a halt at London Heathrow Airport after a Burn ing engine fell away two minutes after this plane Down was a team Job Taylor said monday at his Home in suburban Bexley. There were five other people on the flight deck and i just happened to be in with tears in his eyes Taylor who once piloted Queen Eliza Beth spoke of the five who could not get out of the plane in time. One of our girls was still in there and some of our passengers. I am very sorry about telling the Story of the Acci Dent Taylor said the Takeoff was Normal. Routine procedure was however interrupted by a Call from the Airport control Tower that an engine was on two engine was on fire said Taylor. I was in turn at the time in accordance with our flight plan. The fire was still going and a Landing was other aircraft were asked to keep Clear. We made an approach and finally came to a halt. Aircraft evacuation commenced. We had Only just stopped when there was an he said he had no difficulty i controlling the plane after the engine had fallen off. He assumed that the engine had fallen off because the fire had burned through the mount Ings. The two ton engine fell from a height of about 2,000feet into a gravel pit five Miles from the Airport. Taylor s Only hint 01 the difficulties he faced in the air came when he said yes. 1 had mis Givings that i would not be Able to he said he hoped to be flying again us soon us possible but that he would have to await the end of a Board of Trade inquiry into the Accident Boac chief Engineer Charles Abell said monday the airline was imposing no restrictions on us Boeing 707 Fleet. He believed it was a pure co incidence that the aircraft was the same one involved in an incident in Honolulu last novem Ber when a starboard engine caught fire. This is because All four engines were changed he said. Abell said Boac had no Indi cation of the cause of the fire and would not have until the engine was examined. Meanwhile the engine was found by a diving team close to the Banks of a gravel pit a Thorpe Surrey monday after noon. Police cordoned the areas investigators began their team was working on the wreckage of the aircraft a London Airport Vietnam sgt., wife reunited in Germany Wiesbaden is the search by an air Force ser Geant on emergency leave from his unit in Vietnam for his Ger Man wife ended happily As the missing woman was found working in a Wiesbaden sgt. James m. Perry 28, of the 37th trans so in Vietnam stopped off in Germany to pick up his wife Maria Elisabeth Enro Ute to the United states where his father was critically to Howard Gregory red Cross Field director in wies Baden the sergeant told air Force investigators that his wife had disappeared from her parents Home in Cologne late i february. His search ended when Ger Man police told 7100th Security police so investigators Here thata woman working in a wies Baden hotel might be mrs. information was Correct said an air Force spokesman and the couple was soon re United. The disappearance of the woman reportedly was the result of a communication problem Between the perrys. Lurleen Wallace is improving Montgomery Ala. Up doctors said tuesday gov Lurleen b. Wallace continue her gradual improvement in recovering from cancer surgery of almost eight weeks ago. She is gaining strength slowly but steadily and is walking about in her suite More each Day doctors said in Brief morning bulletin. Mrs. Wallace has been in s Hospital Here since feb. 22 when a malignant Pelvic tumor and 10-Inch Section of Bowel were removed. It Washer third operation for cancer. No major damage quakes strike Southwest . Pasadena Calif. Up series of rolling earthquakes rocked parts of Souther California Arizona and Nevada monday night but no major damage deaths or injuries were reported. The temblor swayed Tali buildings in los Angeles and san Diego and was Felt nearly400 Miles to the East at Caesars Palace in Las vegas of Yuma Ariz some 250 Miles to the East of Losangeles also reported feeling he was a Nice Garden variety of earthquake said spokesman for the California Institute of technology s seismological Laboratory Here. C a 11 e c h seismologist Richter said the Quase had a magnitude in the neighbourhood of 6" on the Richter scale. This compare with a magnitude of 8.3 for the 1900 temblor which turned Sanfrancisco into flaming rubble. The latest tremor occurred at8 31 pan. Post. Richter placed the epicentre of the quake at about 120 Miles Southeast of this los Angele suburb near the mexican Border Between san Diego an the Imperial Valley. The epicentre is an unsettled area he said. It was a moderate earthquake of Potenti ally local destructive Power not a major residents of most Southern California cities that were jolted by the tremor flooded Law enforcement an fire department Telephone resident of the suburban san Fernando Valley said it Felt like the whole House was sitting on a rocking , the earthquake was hardly Felt in Tehachapi Calif., where a 1952 temblor practically levelled the City. Aftershocks were Felt in Sandiego and other cities at least an hour after the original Riverside store owners reported some merchandise tumbled from shelves. Some Utility lines were knocked Down near Hemet and Coachella in the Souther California desert. The temblor created a six Inch tide at the Salton sea an Inland Salt water body sur rounded by desert. Congress oks Money for dec Washington url to Senate approved monday a billion authorization1 ror the atomic Energy commission which includes stepped up development of the faster Antisubmarine. The voice vote sent the House passed measure to the White House for president John son s signature. The measure carrying authorizations for the dec in the fiscal year beginning july 1. Was $277million greater than the current weapon authorization approved Bill carried $8.5 million More than requested for design and development of the Power Plant for the now attack submarine. Saigon throws out son of spy Lii Why Saigon up the South vietnamese government has or dered John Philby the son of British master spy Kim Philby to leave South Vietnam. John Philby 24, arrived in Viet Nam five weeks ago. Of when Ftp Barracks was full of sleeping sol. ,.ntoue said the Henerfo fire with Small arms an automatic a i�T1?
