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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday june 21,1986 Rescue workers sort Nihro Iirth wreckage of a Halland twin Otter on a Barren plateau in he grand Canyon. Crews Scarf remove of bodies from grand Canyon air disaster grand Canyon Village. Ariz. A tourists stood in line to Fly into the grand Canyon As Crew worked to remove the bodies of 25 people killed when a helicopter and an air plane collided Over the Gorge and crashed in flames. The wreckage of the do Havilland twin Otter Lour plane and the Bell Jet Ranger tour helicopter still was soldering thursday when an eight Man team began removing the bodies of the victims most of them for eign  remains were airlifted out of the Canyon and driven to the Flagstaff medical Center where medical examiners began working to identify them. Grand Canyon airlines which operated the plane suspended Lour flights thursday but hundreds of tourists stood in line to take air plane and helicopter rides offered by other companies. I think these aircraft arc very Safe said Vera stauffer of Vienna Austria. All my life i have wanted to see the grand Canyon and 1 am not going to go away disappointed now despite what happened to those poor  but Lim Bok Hoa a member of a Hong Kon Lour group said i was sorry to hear about that Accident and my wife docs not want to Fly now even though we have the  Patricia Goldman acting chairwoman of the National transportation safely Board headed a team of investigators that arrived thursday. She declined to comment on the crash and said in would Lake at least two Days before her team reaches any conclusions. A flight Manifest showed the plane carried the two pilots and four american passengers 11 dutch Passen Gers two Swiss and one South african said sheriff Joe Richards. He said the helicopter carried the Pilot one Ameri can passenger and three germans. 3 killed in Florida House fire Pensacola Fla. A a badly burned Man had to be physically restrained by firefighters thurs Day to keep him from running Back into his burning House where his wife and two children were trapped officials  p. Smith was standing outside the wooden of airy House thai was engulfed in fames when fire High tors arrived about 3 30 a.m., officials  apparently had jumped from the roof of the two nory victorian style Bouse and was crying. Please Uve my babies Ray wife said a neighbor Jayn Woodcock who called in the alarm. _ we had 10 Stop him physically from going Back in said fire capt. Pat herring on. There was no going in this  Smith was Able to Ell firefighters his family was inside but Little  was pretty much delirious. He was Curt pretty bad himself Waters said. Smith taken to Pensacola Bap Lisl Hospital Wilh first and second degree bums was listed in Senou condition. Herring on said. One firefighter also was treated at the Hospital for exhaustion and released be  the fire was put out about two hours later firefighters found the bodies of Mae Wynn Morgan Smith 31, and the children Charles 1, and Angela 3, on the second  Smiths were restoring the 84-year-old building in the historic North Hill preservation District. Stateside 40-ton Humpback whale collides with tourist boat Glacier Bay Alaska up a 40-ton Humpback whale and a 65-fool Boal loaded Wilh tourists collided in Glacier Bay. Bruising the Ocean mammal and soaking a few Lou Sis ii spokesman said  startled whale surfaced 15 feel from the vessel Thunder Bay and splashed some 20 on lookers in the Bow said supt. Mike Tollefson of Glacier Bay National  was l a major Impact. It was More like a nudge he said. When the Captain saw the whale he immediately shifted into reverse but it was too late to avoid a collision Tollefson  got wet during the incident he said. People on the foredeck got splashed apparently from the whale flipping its  damaged Atlas missile is major loss curator says Dayton Ohio a the curator of the air Force museum at Wright Patterson fab says in will be difficult to replace an Early  missile that was damaged when it collapsed at its  is considered a major loss to us since original alias missiles Are extremely rare Cura Tor Jack Milliard said thursday. We will certainly attempt to find another  can probably Salvage the nose Cone and the Booster engines but the upper portion of the missile is totally  missile similar to those used to launch astronauts into space was kept erect by an air pressure system rather than a rigid Structure Likely scr generation missiles museum officials said. Nahl Patterson spokeswoman Linda Smith said lightning May have struck the missile wednesday night Ai its display in front of the museum. She said two Burn holes were discovered at its base. Election official claims his Job went up in smoke Kansas City to. A a democratic election official says he was fired because he did t want to move his office into a room filled with smoke by his Republican  told them i could t do in said Richard Schmidt democratic director of the Jackson county election Board. The smoke is into Era  Davis the Republican election director is a heavy cigarette smoker. Schmidt said three other people in her office also smoke. Election commissioners voted tuesday night to tire Schmidt. The chairman of the commissioners Republican Buford Farrington. Said Schmidt was fired because of policy differences. Reagan eases controls on Gene splicing work Washington  
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