European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. May 1. 1988 the stars and stripes pager nuclear Detector test appears successful Gerlach. Nov. A american and soviet scientists exchanged Vodka a Oasis after claiming Victory in the first of a series of experiments they Hope will prove trial a cheat proof ban on All nuclear weapons testing ii possible. The Experiment is successful Charles Art Hambeau a University or Colorado Boulder geophysics professor said Friday after delicate seismic equipment selected a Low yield simulated nuclear blast in the Nevada desert. It Means thai we can More accurately gauge the numbers and distribution of stations that will be required to verify a Low threshold treaty. It aim will help us to set the threshold of what s verifiable he said. Archambeau Heads the seismic Monitor ing advisory committee of inc natural re sources defense Council a private group conducting the experiments in this country and the soviet Union in cooperation with the soviet Academy of sciences scientists initially thought Friday s Deto nation of 10 tons of int had foiled 1o Register on any of Fth 143 seismic monitors scattered throughout Nevada but a More a railed study indicated the lest was successful. Officials planned a second explosion at a Alhlou Wells. 51 Miles South of the no Vada test site where All . Nuclear weapons Are tested. A third explosion was to he detonated saturday at broken Hills 100 Miles East of arson City. Evgeni pc Likhon vice president of the soviet Academy and an advisor to soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev seemed Dis Turbed when Friday s explosion 160 feet below inc Black Rock desert 100 Miles North of Reno did not appear to Register on any of the seismometers. Lie brightened up later when officials found the blast had been detected on More sensitive equipment. I think it is inappropriate to say 1 am disappointed by scientific results he said. It s the  precise digital units in deep Springs calif., 250 Miles from the explosion and in Troy Canyon nev., 10 Miles farther re corded the blast 00 seconds after it was detonated sharply jolting the ground under observers 500 feet away said Holly Flissler. Dust Clouds Rise Abo e the Black Rock desert after i blast that was set off in help scientists determine Delec Liun capabilities. Research geophysicist at the University of California san Diego. It also was detected at 15 Remote stations installed in Northern Nevada by inc University of Nevada Reno s seismology lab. According to technician Diane Dipolo. Scientists had been concerned that Nevada s Complex geography would nut carry sound Waves to the monitoring stations and said they were pleased with the weak signal. This is about the site we d expect in this terrain Archambeau said. This is a worst Case situation. It will help us design networks that can do verification in these rather difficult  if the experiments succeed they would show that any chances for cheating arc about excluded under test ban pc Likhon said. We think the comprehensive lest ban is very  he  11 n extremely important to mop die arms  typical underground nuclear explosions Are measured in hundreds or thou Sands of tons of int Thomas Cochran senior stall scientist of the natural be sources defense Council told a news con Ference. By detonating Only 10 to 15 tons we will show that it is possible to select very Small  one objection to a test ban Lias been that Low yield blasts could be virtually under cd Lable particularly those muffled in deep caverns. The testing equipment was designed to feel the difference Between nuclear and Industrial explosions and. Very Small  Coc Liran said. The tests were expected to stud acc Shock Waves equivalent to earthquakes measuring i or 2 on the a Ichter scale of ground motion said Keith Priestley of the University of Nevada Keno seismology Laboratory. Passengers Praise Pilot of damaged a a Ner Kahului Hawaii a passengers on Friday praised the Aloha airlines Pilot who safely brought Down a jetliner blown open at 21,000 feel with one Man saying the Landing was just like Riding in a  it a Jim Down so smooth it was belter than a regular Landing said Mae Kagihara who had thought the plane was going to crash thursday. The Boeing 737, piloted by Robert Schomski Cimer landed at Kahului Airport on Olaui Island 151o 20 feel of its upper fuselage just behind the front Para Ngui Jinor torn away to the floor. Witnesses said one engine was on fire. One attendant apparently was sucked from the Cabin to her death and 61 people were injured two critically. I give credit to the Pilot. He brought that plane Down so smoothly it was just Tike Riding in a Cadillac said John Lope 40, one of 89 passengers aboard flight 2-4 Lom  Hawaii Island to Honolulu. A structural failure is suspected of having caused the Cabin to blow open. Investigators have ruled out a bomb blast sources said. . A 42-year-old former air Force Pilot realised there was it Hole in the fuselage but was not aware of the extent of the damage until after the Landing said his father also named Robert. He says it was just something else All of a sudden then was this noise and the plane s flying funny and there s a big drag on it so he immediately decided to change inc might plan to land at the Maui Airport which was closest and he was Able to get it in and land it the elder Schomus theimer said from his Home in Marietta Ohio. The Pilot was taken to an undisclosed location by Aloha for questioning by investigators from the Federal aviation administration and National transportation safety Board officials said. . Transportation Secretary j in Burnley telephoned and congratulated him for the Landing said a spokesman for the department. Because the upper Structure was gone there was a pos Sib Iliyof inc plane  said Dale Bringelson owner of Island Aero Olive who watched the Landing from his company hangar at Kahului Airport. If he had t been real careful it could have busied in two. The Man was highly skilled and it Speaks Well of the  Mark Eberly a ramp supervisor at the Airport said he and a Friend dropped to their Knees As they saw inc plane land its Cabin exposed. The jetliner was weaving As it headed in. Lie said. " you could Tell his plane was on one  Eberly said. One eng ii was on Al Rand  "1 have to give inc Pilot credit. Be brought it in  " can t believe the air plane was still flying or that people Silling in that area survived said f. Ken Felt i her an Aloha Pilot who a flown 737s for 20 years. I think it s a statement probably any Pilot would make looking at it. 1 just think that Bob Schomus theimer did a  the elder  said his on sounded Calm when they spoke by Telephone thursday night. He s pretty Calm under pressure. I be said he was Calm Aloha airlines Pilot Robert Schonau Beimer have done in the same circumstance the father said scorns Tecimer s wife Mary said she Learned of the explosion and Safe Landing from friends. I was t Wor ried she said. I have a lot  in his ability is a  the elder Schornstheim or said his son was in die air Force from i w-7-t, serving As a flight instructor and then As an air traffic controller at Vance fab in Enid okla. Schomski Cimer then worked As a civilian air traffic con troller at Kan conc Marine air base on Oahu from 1974 until joining Aloha As a Pilot in 1977, his father said Schom Scheimer is Secretary treasurer of the local Council of the air line pilots Assoc lion and just made Captain status this year said his Stepmother Nancy sch Ostheim