European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes August 1985 Jal probe focuses on external cause Tokyo a a top Japan air lines technician said monday that investigators arc studying a new theory that external pressure May have caused a Jal jumbo Jet to lose part of its Tail and an airline source said Boeing experts were discounting a theory that blamed the crash on the failure of a Cabin pressure which could have subjected the Tail to a sudden Rush of pressurized air from inside the plane in damaging the knocked out the planes Hydraulic systems As the transport ministry re leased monday a preliminary transcript of the cockpit voice recorder on which the Pilot says All Hydraulic systems had failed a moment before the orders raise the raise Only four of the 524 passengers survived the 12 crash of the Japan air lines Boeing 747 on a Central Japan the worst single plane disaster in aviation Hydro All Captain Masami Taka Hama said two minutes and 17 seconds into a tape of the planes last 32 without the Hydraulic which operate the control surfaces used to descend and change the Pilot could not control the plane except with his whats broken where is it the co Eilot or flight Engineer asked five minutes iter in the translated by the associated its the area of the bag Gage in the in the very i that holding area has another seven minutes an unidentifiable voice How about gearing Down or lowering the Landing a a never that Jal spokesman Geoffrey Tudor said could have been intended to slow the plane Down or to ensure that the wheels were Down for an emergency land ing while some Hydraulic Power might have he said the baggage area mentioned apparently is one near the lavatories in the very Back of the studies on the crash cause have entered on the planes Tail earlier Jal chief 747 technician Hiroaki Kohno said a new theory was that the planes vertical Tail Fin had not been damaged by a sudden Rush of pressurized air from inside the but was struck from the he said the top Edge was the weakest part of the vertical Stabilizer or Tail and would have broken off first if struck by a Force from the Fin actually appeared to break first along its stronger leading he investigators found a 15foot panel from the front Edge of the Tail Fin floating in Sagami Bay South of Tokyo one Day after the and surmised that the Taij had fallen apart in the top Edge of the Tail Fin has not been Kohno did not say what external Force might have struck the Tail Fin and broken initial reports said the planes door had popped out and knocked off the Tail but the door was found intact in the another theory that experts had consid ered held that cracks in the Dis shaped Bulkhead that helps contain pressure in the Cabin caused pressurized air to Rush into the no pressurized Tail Section and damage a senior government Hiro Shi said pieces of the Bulkhead had numerous but he said he did not know whether the cracks were there before the but five experts from the Boeing makers of the expressed Strong doubts about the Bulkhead theory after vis iting the crash site with four govern ment aviation experts and japanese offi an airline source asking not to be the Boeing people said there was Noth ing to indicate that the damage to the bulk head was due to anything but the crash said the Boeing and government officials have refused to com ment on the woman missing from Bonn suspected of espionage Bonn up Justice officials said monday German counterintelligence is prob ing the disappearance of a second Secretary suspected of spying for East a spokesman for the Karlsruhe based Federal prosecutor confirmed news reports saying that a Secretary employed by the privately organized National federation of exiles from Eastern Europe vanished 10 Days ago in what the authorities Are treat ing As another spy he identified the woman As Ursula Rich and said she had Access to important information about prominent politicians who Are Active in the exile As was the Case with the German Cabinet ministers aide who disappeared 17 Days Richter came originally from East but the spokesman said he did not know of any connection Between the two the newspaper die Welt also reported monday that French counterintelligence has been asked to join the spreading spy Hunt for the missing aide to economics minister Martin the newspaper said the Federal criminal German equivalent of the contacted the French secret service in its probe of the disappearance of Sonja who had been Bangemann confidential Secretary for 12 disappeared 17 Days ago after telling neighbors she was going to Brussels for the Feder Al prosecutors said that the Story of her week end trip was not True and that equipment for photographing documents was found in her the 60yearold Secretary is suspected of involvement in they die Welt said the criminal office has suicides from Page 1 suicide is not a major problem among Active duty military the authors say military investigative information on suicides is a Rich source of largely untapped by scientific further investigation could help develop a bet Ter picture of the kind of person who commits suicide and might even identify characteristics unique to military they the authors Are air Force Ronald Redman and air Force Lucas the study Drew on three years of deaths reported to the defense departments worldwide casualty the task Force urges no Radical programs to investigate the phenomenon but it recommends that suicide prevention programs Al ready in place be encouraged and that military suicide data be made available to researchers in the the study is one of a series of reviews of military mental health services ordered by Jarrett Deputy assistant Secretary for professional affairs and Quality Assurance in the Dods health affairs there were slightly More than 12 suicides per people in the United states in according to the latest statistics Avail Able from the National Center for health Sta that was or per cent of All deaths in the the Only larger cause of deaths was suicide was Only the 3 cause of death in the military last after vehicle accidents and heart suicides occurred at a rate of just Over 10 per there were 212 suicides last per cent of All military the report lists these characteristics of suicides in the military the rate has gone Down 16 percent in the last three years 19821984 from cases per people to the marines had the highest rate among the services 28 suicides or per last the rates per people for the other services were army Navy and air Force Walter noted that the rates were not statistically meaning that the order of the services could be completely different next statistical tests suggested that the Only characteristics by which the Sui cide rates really differed Between military and civilians were race and the ratio of White to Black suicides is in the it is 2to in the United suicides among Black males Rose 63 percent during the last 40 highest of any racial the study the ratio of male to female suicides is although it is 3tol in the women Are percent of the Active duty military but Only percent of the Walter said the relative homogeneity of the services Black and men and women doing the same jobs for the same pay could help explain Why Blacks and women in uniform appeared to commit suicide at rates closer to those of Whites and men than in civilian suicide in the age group 1724 an important one for the relatively Young Mili tary population decreased from per to 9 per from 1982 to since suicides throughout the United states among people age 1524 Rose 173 percent from per to per while the rate among older people declined enlisted people commit suicide at twice the rate of officers per compared with 5 per in enlisted personnel account for percent of the military although they Are percent of its gunshots were the leading suicide method in the sixty percent of the men and 51 percent of the women who killed themselves used such the second most frequent method was strangulation or the study says there is some inaccuracy in All suicide especially because of the study cites social stigma surrounding such Soldier who jumped from train Dies Germany an american Soldier who jumped from a moving train thinking that he had missed his died sunday night of his Edward assigned to the 4th 5th Field arty in was the last of three people to jump from the train As it pulled from the station in ludwigs said Elise a spokeswoman for the Neu Ulm Ray was returning from a festival in Heilbronn with a German woman and an unidentified Bishop she said the three had been a spokesman for the German Federal railway said the three had apparently fallen asleep and thought they were leaving Neu Ulm when the train pulled out of Lud they jumped off the train at about Bishop said the woman jumped Fol Lowed by the unidentified Ray jumped last and suffered serious head she he was unconscious when taken to the German Hospital in he never regained the German woman was slightly injured when she Bishop the condition of the unidentified Man is memorial services were held for Ray on monday in the Neu Ulm Learned that a beautician named Sonja Lueneburg had lived in West Berlin until 1966 when she moved for unknown reasons to the alsatian City of soon die Welt Intelli gence officials determined that a woman with this name entered Germany from France and lived in Hamburg and then this was the person who became Bangemann it the newspaper said investigators have Concrete evidence that the East German secret serv ice arranged an identity switch As cover for an agent planted in West temperatures August 18 Angeles Beach Paul Orleans York City Louis Petersburg Lake City Diego Francisco Juan european weather forecast for tuesday partly Cloudy to Cloudy throughout Germany and he Benelux with widespread Light morning locally dense in Northern scattered Light rain will affect Eastern areas of Ger High temperatures from the mid60s to Low lows from the Low Sunset tuesday Sunrise wednesday Outlook for wednesday partly Cloudy skies with isolated thunderstorms affecting the Benelux and Western sections of Germany by Early temperatures nearly the temperatures recorded monday 4pm 64 59 77 68 97 77 r 55 68 84 Del weather other worldwide temperatures High Low 97 73 66 52 75 45 82 64 82 f cd f f f 63 f f cd f cd High Low 75 59 84 64 77 57 77 52 68 55 by the associated fair cd Clouds a mostly Cloudy partly Cloudy