European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stapes tuesday october 1.1985 arms theft loss Cost $1 billion a year new Towel the Pentagon says is billion Worth of weapons is in . Tens of millions of dollars Worth of them Ena Market. Officials from the defense department other Federal agencies and members of Congress told the new York times that theft from . Military bases ships and Ware houses was the principal source of the Black Supply of advances american made weapon Msj Bibbea to military use. The times published the weapons mar become available for Sale to hostile oven mms7or terrorist potentially contributing to the Mem of terrorism the government is trying to fight the times said. Land mines plastic explosives missiles bazookas Gre launchers and artillery have reached the Blacks the military so it Tel Flanic weaponry in its$80 billioulpnatinc�nhmtotafi3.si billion year the times said. Federal officials say it is impossible to know howl of the missing weaponry is stolen although they contend much of it is simply misplaced due to poor record keeping the newspaper said. Pentagon officials say they have improved their record keeping and Security since two years ago when the Gener Al accounting office said the magnitude of the inventory accuracy problem is  Najy piously been recognize Hyp a Mem Bow to Jummy Marco the problem and looking at. Grything we can do to try and fix it said James Reay the Pentagon s Deputy director for Supply and  problem is pretty widespread said defense de Arment Deputy inspector general Derek Ven Deschaaf. It leads us to believe then Are a lot of holes in Stem we need to plug , the . Custins service hat arrested an  people who were trying to sell missiles weapon  and other serious stand alone weapons systems Libya Iran another customers Custons commissioner William von Raab said. Crash from Page 1 peach rec Airport in Atlanta an Faa in Spector had discovered its fuel was contaminated. They All agreed the chief Mechanic the owner operator of the plane and the Faa inspector that the plane was Unai worthy Myers said. A sign was placed on the plane indicating it had been grounded he said. Officials did not know what Steps might have been taken since Friday to make the Elane airworthy said Myers. He did no now whether fuel contamination can cause an engine to stall. Grady Wyatt was out in his Yard when the plane flew Over just above the treetops. The plane came up and looked like it could hardly stay in. A few minute after that i heard a crash what sounded like a crash said  plane came to rest on its Back its cockpit destroyed but the wheels intact said Butts county fire chief .  first report to us was that there were 17 persons on Board and All were injured fatally said Myers. It just did t look real bodies on to of bodies. It looked really like Manne quins said David Aukerman owner of the horse farm where the plane crashed. When we walked up we just knew there was t anybody alive. Rescue workers spent two hours pulling bodies from the wreckage. They were taken to a National guard armory in nearby  the Accident victims were quickly identified from Driver s licenses other materials they were carrying or by members of the Parachute jump , who withheld the victims names while relatives were notified said the victims had come from throughout the  will be several weeks before a report on the crash is Complete because the Lane was not required to carry a cockpit voice recorder or a flight data recorder said  caravan is an unusually Large sin Gle engine aircraft introduced by Cessna in1982 and marketed As a cargo or passenger aircraft Myers  chairman Jim Burnett was in route to Georgia from Washington d.c., Totake charge of the investigation into the cause of the crash said Nosb spokesman Ira Furman. Investigators with the National transportation safety Board and the Faa also were dispatched said  other crashes involving parachutists an air plane with 24 Skydive aboard stalled and fell into a High Speed spin Over t Rural area about 45 Miles North of Seattle Ina gust 1983, killing nine parachutist and the plane s two crewmen. The stall occurred As the Skydive were dashing to leave the plane from the rear door in an Effort to descend in formation Federal investigators said. Fifteen parachutists escaped some after fighting their layout of the plane As it spiralled downward. In october 1982,13 parachutists and Pilot were killed when their plane crashed in Taft Calif. Len december 1981, 11 Skydive were killed when their plane crashed in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. One person survived. In april 1981, is people were killed when a plane operated by a Parachute school collided with a commuter plane near fort col Lins Colo. Four parachutists survived. Goal  contractors 149,599 existing clearances or lot cent of the whole by sept. 14, Snider continued. In Short the Overall objective has been  Snider also said the Pentagon approve some exceptions to Weinberger order. While he declined to offer figures he said the goal won t be met by the Nati Al Security Agency and Thethel licence Agency be Caapi yes  cd need for a\0lld by la Asur Ltd  Cloudy cd Clouds r tin itt Hun