European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes june suspicions ground jetliners by the associated press Anonymous bomb threats and suspicious remarks by passengers forced jumpy airline officials around the world to order two planes to make emergency landings and delay Takeoff of two the threats came one Day after an apparent explosion downed an air India jumbo Jet out of Toronto 120 Miles Southwest of the Irish killing All 329 peo ple also an explosion shattered lug Gage in Tokyo Airport that had been taken off a Canadian Pacific air flight from no bombs were found on any of the threatened planes officials an austrian airlines dc9 was forced to return to a Rome Airport monday after the airlines Vienna office received an Anonymous telephoned bomb police no explosives were found after a two hour the Vienna bound plane with 65 people aboard had been flying for less than half an hour when the threat was at the austrian airlines office in an offi Cial of the country National Carrier refused to com we do not give information on our flight movements by a japanese Airliner carrying 199 people on a Domestic flight made an emergency Landing monday after a Telephone caller said there were bombs aboard that would explode at Hiroyuki a spokesman for All Nippon said the plane made an emergency Landing at Akita in Northern also a telephoned bomb threat delayed a new Yor bound air India jumbo Jet at London Heathrow Airport for More than seven in a Ward air flight to Edmonton was delayed for More than five hours monday night while a bomb search was conducted at Pearson International a Security guard overheard a passenger make a remark that was serious enough to take extra Pecau said Airport spokesman Jean who said All the passengers were told to leave the plane and went through a second Security a spokesman for Peel regional police said the Pas sengers were questioned during the Greece to let team study Airport Security Switzerland not Greece has agreed to allow a special Secu Rity team from the International air transport association to visit Athens this week to try to help improve Airport Security an association spokesman the fou member team of Security experts from Kim Royal dutch Qantas airways of Australia and British airways was to begin its three Day visit to Athens the David said Greece had yet to respond to an association request after the Twa hijacking to allow individual airlines to continue secondary checks of passengers after they have been checked by official Airport Security Kyd said that Greece had asked inter National airlines to discontinue such secondary checks by july 1 but that the association obtained a 30day Extension and asked that such procedures be allowed to continue we do not consider Security at Athens to be at an adequate Kyd it is partly a question of the motivation of the staff involved the fact is that the greeks believe their Security is we dont feel that the greek in a report presented Friday in insisted that its airports were As Safe As any in Europe or the United states and that the hijackers had succeeded because of new tech the government and air travel groups have criticized Security at the Athens Greece has rejected the saying there was a press Campaign against the Kyd spoke of the recent attacks on commercial including the Twa previous hijackings of Jordani an and lebanese the bombing at Frankfurt International Airport last week and the crash of an air India Jet he we consider these incidents appalling and outrageous because they put at risk the lives of innocent passengers and we consider them unacceptable be cause the fact of getting on a plane should not expose you to dangerous political causes with which you have no connect following rash of near collisions by aircraft on the ground authorities concerned Over Airport runway safety Washington a air safety authorities investigating a rash of near collisions involving aircraft on Airport runways say the frequency of such incidents raises concerns about the control of traffic at Busy air National transportation safety Board officials told a congressional hearing that in the last three 14 incidents at a dozen airports have occurred in which a plane taking off or Landing was in danger of colliding with another plane or ground the testimony came four Days after a National guard Jet making a Landing at collided with a private plane about to take one person was killed in the these incidents appear to be randomly spread across the David chief of the a tabs operational factors told a House he said they often involve aircraft that air traffic controllers have cleared to Cross a runway just As another plane was cleared to take off on the same the incidents suggest a distinct breakdown Between the ground controller and local controller at he a ground controller directs aircraft into position for while a local controller rules Over the actual runway and gives clearance for Takeoff or often the two stand next to each other in the Airport among the incidents under investigation Are the near collision of two Northwest airlines do 10s March 31 at Minneapolis Airport in which one of the taking cleared the other which was crossing the by As Little As 50 two controllers simultaneously gave the planes instructions to a similar incident june 17 at the same Airport in which a commuter plane was Given Takeoff clearance while a private Jet was cleared to Cross the the two planes came within about 300 feet of each investigators in a Lufthansa dc10 aborted its Takeoff May 8 when a Republic airlines dc9 crossed the same investigators said the pilots of both planes were cleared to proceed about the same in an Kelly said the 14 incidents involve a wide variety of aircraft including private planes and Large commercial jets As Well As some Airport ground the incidents occurred in a dozen cities with two incidents each in Minneapolis and two in san Francisco Between March 31 and june the testimony came at the opening of hearings by the House Public works and transportation investigations subcommittee into the questions surrounding the Way the Federal aviation administration deals with near collision reports and other safety while near collisions in the air have attracted wide Media Nosb chairman Jim Burnett said the Threa of a collision on the ground is equally ominous and has become a major concern of the safety he said the March 31 incident in Minneapolis could have led to the worst aviation Accident in addition to 504 people aboard the two Burnett said there were at least seven other planes with in 500 with some Likely to have caught fire or become involved in the Accident if the two jumbo jets had collided and burst into a fiery runway collision in 1977 led to history worst commercial aviation Accident when two Boeing 747s one taking off and the other crossing the runway collided in even highly trained pilots subject to hijacking stress Washington up even for pilots trained to handle such a an air plane hijacking is a terrifying experience and can severely test their physical and emotional although commercial pilots Are required to be in top physical shape and Are selected for mental and emotional Tough they still feel to a degree what others would feel in the same you  be human a commercial Pilot pilots Are trained to know How to re Spond in an emergency and it is during a hijacking that their professionalism May be put to the most severe yet certain factors beyond their control such As not enough sleep can affect performance in Subtle ways in a particularly if it becomes a lengthy that makes the Battle to stay in command of a dangerous situation More sleep deprivation and the very nature of a hijacking Means incidents such As the Twa crisis Are among the most Harrow ing a Pilot could Ever go when people lose control of situations there supposed to be in control of and when the loss of control involves the health or safety of theres not much that More stressful than said Robert Rose of the University of Texas medical Branch at the risk of death and the threats that people make increase the Chance of emotional causing bodily things like said Frank the Federal air from observation of military sol Diers and emergency scientists have Learned How stress affects aviators Donald chairman of Psychia try at Texas technological College and former chief of psychiatry for the air said studies of the effects of sleep deprivation have shown that people can adjust to Many different sleep cycles but if they had to function 36 hours in a during the Early morning hours they would have a lot of no one knows How much sleep they have been getting and so Flinn said of the hijacked Twa but if Treyve gone two Days or More without during the Early morning hours it must be terribly difficult to in an interview from the cockpit of Bis hijacked jetliner at Beirut International John Testrake appeared fit after six Days of he said he was being treated Well by his Flinn studied How training helps people Cope with emergency what we found that was very Clear was that trained pilots who Are accustomed to attending to the task at hand did much better than other intelligent people with College degrees who just didst have be the others would become emotional and he