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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes August Bulkhead May have failed on Jal Jet Tokyo a evidence mounted Friday that a pres sure Bulkhead failed on a Japan air lines allow ing air to Rush through the Bulkhead and damage the Boeing 747s Tail investigators Friday found a piece of the Bulkhead from the which crashed into a Remote Central Japan Mountain 12 in the worst single plane disaster in aviation the air crash killed 520 and four people Hiroshi Deputy investigator of the transport ministry s aircraft Accident investigation said in a televised news conference that the pieces of the Bulkhead his team found among the debris showed that it was peeled like an the an alumni Malloy parti seals the rear of the passenger Cabin from the non Tail Hiroaki Jal technical manager for the said that a crack or Hole in the Bulkhead could allow air from the Cabin to Rush in and burst the hollow vertical Fujiwara description of the Bulkhead Points to a theory that the compressed air rushed through the Bulkhead into the vertical Stabilizer and the Tail such an explosive flow could have burst open the surface of the Verti Cal causing sections to damaging both lower and upper rudders and All of the planes four Hydraulic the Speed of the Rushing air from the pressurized Cabin to the no pressurized Tai Section could reach As High As 742 or about the Speed of according to professor Hiroshi Maeda of National Kyoto who is a specialist in aircraft Boeing spokesman Richard Schleh said Friday that Boeing notified All 747 operators late thursday until the cause of the Accident is operators May wish to inspect the vertical Fin and rudder Structure due to the reported decompression of the Jal planes operators May also wish to visually inspect the external and aft portions of the pressure Shell Japan earlier ordered inspections of the Tail sections of All Boeing 747s flown by japanese Yoshio gals chief 747 told the associated press that simultaneous damage to All four Hydraulic systems used to move rudders and other parts of the plane would have left the Pilot of Jal flight 123 with Only the four engines to steer the Fujiwara said investigators were trying to find More pieces of the Bulkhead and the connecting linkage be tween the body and the vertical Stabilizer so they can reconstruct the entire Tail part of the Bulkhead had been replaced after a 1978 Kohno Boeing engineers installed a new lower portion after the planes Tail scraped a runway on Landing at Twa of used in hijacking flown out of Beirut after being stranded 2 months the bulkheads Are inspected every and the one on the crashed 747 was last inspected in Early Decem Ber Kohno two of the four All of whom were seated in the said they heard a loud and then the oxygen masks which occurs automatically in Case of a drop in Cabin Yumi a survivor of the said she saw damage to the ceiling above the rear on Ochiai told reporters that the passengers panicked in the last the children were All calling and there were Many screams because they were in a an of duty flight said from her Hospital after the plane went into a Ochiai the passengers followed the Crews but they were in a panic so they could not find their life i helped them after i put mine Ochiai the duty flight attendant asked Passen Gers to put on life she we Are receiving instructions from the control Tower so please feel at the wreck teams of aviation officials and technical experts from the Boeing commercial air plane photographed sections of the planes they refused to comment on their by late japanese police said they recovered 392 of the 520 of which 202 were Cyprus a a trans world airlines Boeing stranded at Beirut Airport since it was hijacked in june by lebanese shiite moslem was flown to Warnaca on Friday by three Amer ican the Twa Richard told an Airport news conference shortly after Landing that the Crew had been a Little apprehensive going in and glad to get out of he added that the Security and Airport officials he had met during his Short Stopover in Lebanon had been very and they handled us Vaux was accompanied by two other americans who identified themselves As first officer Jim corely and Carl the men were not those who were in the Botha from Page 1 United said Botha had Laid the foundation for political participation for negotiations for the i dont believe apartheid is any longer at Issue congressional critics said they were disappointed by Bot has failure to move decisively away from and president reagans National Security Robert said he was unhappy that South Africa had not lifted a state of Emer gency imposed july 21 in 36 Botha restated his position that Blacks living outside 10 tribal homelands set aside original Crew hijacked to Vaux said that the men had volunteered for the task of getting the stranded Jet from he said that the Jet was in fairly Good condition but was being checked Over by Twa maintenance supervisors to see if it could be moved the Jet took off for Rome later Friday for the Redan Dwhite painted Airliner had sat on the Tarmac at Beirut International Airport since june two Days after the Hijack drama had Twa who have been negotiating for its return since the last of the jets passengers were freed on june said that the Jet Cost about million when it went into service 10 to 15 years the plane took off from Beirut at by the government Are South african Citi Zens and should be accommodated within political institutions within South he repeated the governments willingness to Grant citizenship to Blacks in the six homelands which Are not he said the nature of that citizenship would have to be and stuck to party policy that nominally Independent Black homelands represent a material part of the solution to South Africa Botha said influx which restricts Rural Blacks from migrating to White cities for is outdated and too and a government commission will com plete a report on possible changes but he indicated no impending change in the aspect of influx control most hated by and landed in Warnaca 27 minutes concluding the final chapter in the hijacking in which 39 americans were held hostage in Beirut for 17 Vaux said he did not know what negotiations had been conducted to secure the re lease of the asked about Security at the which jets Are prohibited from using because of its involvement in past Hijack he described seeing Many different people quite sex a lot of people running but he said that Airport officials had been warned to expect the Crews arrival aboard a regularly scheduled Middle East airline flight Friday morning and that the Transfer went Antenna from Page 1 to a news organization last week along with a letter from the red army faction claim ing responsibility for the Rhei main a police suspect the terrorists used Pimen tals id card to enter the witnesses can Contact the Federal Crimi Nal office at 069691357 or or any police a Reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of Klump or other temperatures l h August is l h Blacks pass Laws requiring them to secure permission to work and live near White chief gats a Leader of South Africa largest the 6 million said in Jerusalem that he welcomed criticism of the pass Laws but was displeased that Botha did not propose the participation of Black people in one government and agree to release Mandela in condition Botha rejected the concept of a fourth chamber of parliament for the White parliament runs the but sep Arate houses with limited Powers were established last year for the ethnic indians and million people of mixed 70 92 83 los Angeles 65 90 80 Louisville 54 60 88 Memphis 70 89 88 Miami Beach 77 95 Atlantic City 79 Paul 71 97 91 Nashville 54 78 83 new Orleans 71 89 95 new York 55 87 94 Norfolk 75 93 84 Oklahoma City 71 82 76 Omaha 66 87 92 Orlando 78 91 72 94 92 Philadelphia 76 106 Phoenix 62 84 Chicago 70 82 83 Pittsburgh 66 91 67 83 85 71 94 93 Providence 51 88 95 Reno 58 80 Des 89 Raleigh 65 70 78 Louis 51 57 Fairbanks 46 77 94 Petersburg 57 93 Salt Lake City 73 93 75 san Diego 75 91 Honolulu 76 88 64 san Francisco 78 90 san Juan 66 82 83 Seattle 72 90 91 Syracuse 60 76 Kansas 101 Tucson 71 104 Las vegas 75 85 Little 98 Washington 65 80 Wichita boat from Page 1 starboard and then the Stern went Down until Only the Bow was it was mis Erable for us in the raft seeing the Bow sticking he the 65foot which set out from new York on ran into rough seas 138 Miles West of the finish the Al British Crew put out a distress Call at and said the boat was Hughes five hours the challenger was still partially afloat with the Bow out of the the organizers before it ran into the Mil lion challenger was on schedule to beat the record set in 1952 by the liner United which made the crossing from new York to the Scilly islands in three 10 hours and 40 the challenger was aiming to win the 4 foot Hales a Gold plated Silver cup donated in 1935 by a member of the British Frank curator of the cups Home at the merchant Marine museum in new said wednesday that the trophy was meant for not had they beaten the the challengers backers might have had to go to court to get the he even without the the challenger might have won the Blue a prize for the fastest Atlantic sea the Blue Riband predates the Hales trophy and is an Honor without an actual trophy or the British steam great first won the Blue Riband in in the 20th the Blue Riband became the subject of heated Competition Between Lux Ury liners dubbed the greyhounds of the the challengers Crew made a final re fueling rendezvous earlier thursday with the Blue Riband nearly in their about an hour before the distress Branson said by radio from the boat that they were running into bad the weather is getting worse and we Are not Able to go Flat so it will be a close run he told press the British Domestic news european weather forecast for saturday fair to partly Cloudy skies in Central and Northern with morning Southern areas will have partly Cloudy to Cloudy skies with dense morning fog and afternoon High temperatures from lows from Sunset saturday Sunrise sunday Outlook for sunday fair to partly Cloudy skies with morning Clearing by temperatures will be temperatures recorded Friday 4am 4pm 4am 4pm f 75 90 p 61 66 r 54 64 p 66 75 f 79 89 r 57 61 f 70 93 f 63 cd 64 70 cd 63 79 cd 61 70 f 55 72 cd 52 68 f 72 95 by det 7th weather Graben other worldwide temperatures f cd f f High Low High Low 95 73 cd 75 69 63 50 f 81 59 cd 65 49 93 68 f 77 57 79 63 f 77 50 by the associated of far Pearlly Cloudy a Cloudy  
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