European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 11, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 Airbus Pilot s daughter . Citizen explaining dad s death Tough task Norman okla. A the Pilot of the iranian jetliner the . Navy shot Down last weekend had a 5-year-old daughter who is an american citizen and family members say explaining the Way her father died won t be easy. She was proud to be an american said Navy Sadeghi the sister of Pilot Mohsen Rezaian s wife. The child was born in Oklahoma while mrs. Rezaian was visiting her sister. She always said to the other children i m the american How is she the Mother going to Tell her that her father was shot Down by americans when she s an american mrs. Sadeghi said Friday. The Rezaian had two other children. Mrs. Sage Chi and her husband Kamran said the Pilot considered the United states his second Home. He liked the United states very much mrs. Sadeghi said. He had a Good time Here added Kamran Sadeghi who said Rezaian was trained in Texas by Boeing co. The Sadeghi said because of the increased . Presence in the persian Gulf they knew their brother in Law s Job had become More dangerous. Even so said mrs. Sadeghi she considered his Job routine. She was a stewardess in Iran from 1968 to 1973. I m familiar with the flights. They Are All so  Kamran Sadeghi came to the United states in 1971 to attend the University of Oklahoma and works for the school As a computer Programmer. The couple said they Aren t sure whom to blame for the incident in which the guided missile Cruiser Vincennes shot Down the Airbus a-300, which car ried 290 people. All iranians do not represent the iranian govern ment mrs. Sadeghi said. Same with the Ameri cans and the american government. They Are follow ing their own policies. I blame the situation. It s the War that made the american Navy to be  mrs. Sadeghi said her sister has been living in West Germany for 10 months because of the fighting Between Iran and Iraq. The Sadeghi had a Strong reaction to Early re ports that the downed flight was a suicide Mission with orders to crash into the Vincennes. No no. If you had known him if you could talk to him once you would never imagine that mrs. Sadeghi said. It s not even possible. He was a very Good human being. He valued people. He valued people s lives. He loved his family he loved his kids mrs. Sadeghi said. He was very responsible and would never do anything to jeopardize his own  now mrs. Sadeghi said her concerns lie with her sister and How she can survive this with her Chil  she said the children had not been told yet How their father died. The couple said that if the United states offers to provide financial help the payment should go directly to the families. If the United states pays them Money i Don t want them to pay the government of Iran Sadeghi said. If they do they should pay the victims directly. Iran needs Money. Without it maybe it would Stop the  biggest fire in s. Dakota is contained by the associated press firefighters Cut the final three Miles office line through a Steep Rocky area on the Southwest Edge of a fire that stalled saturday after burning 16,500 acres in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Meanwhile a fire that scorched hundreds of acres in a Michigan state Forest forced the evacuation of about 200 peo ple Wisconsin firefighters battled sever Al fires in drought parched areas of Testate and Utah Crews contained a stub born Blaze and hoped to have it con trolled by  firefighters brought the Blaze i Wyoming s Shoshone National Forest under control saturday afternoon helped impart by Rainy weather earlier in the week. Fires that have scorched More than2,000 acres of Harriman state Park in new York were contained a Park Ranger said. A single engine plane crash landed on a Highway in the Foothills behind Palo Alto calif., saturday triggering a Small Rush fire and forcing closure of a five mile stretch of the Roadway a spokesman from the sheriffs office said. And firefighters contended with for est fires across Eastern Kentucky As temperatures soared into triple digits and division of forestry spokesman called on the governor to consider declaring a fire emergency in the state. Gorilla bound for North sea a photo three Ocean going tugs pull the 500 Rig is being prepared for sen ice in the urn corp. Off Shore Oil platform and foot High Rowan Gorilla in Oil Rig North sea where explosions and fire claimed 166 victims including 149 Bod near Galveston Texas. The $90 million have devastated an Occidental Petrole ies that have not yet been recovered. Report says by can t perform its Mission Washington a new tests show that the b 1 bomber s electronic warfare system has design flaws that could prevent it from reaching its planned capabilities according to a published report in the washing ton Post s sunday editions. The newspaper said the flaws detected in the tests could Force the Pentagon to reroute possible bombing runs through the soviet Union in the event of nuclear War. The newspaper cited an internal congressional document written by House armed services committee chairman Les Aspin d-wis., who received a classified air Force briefing last week on the problems. The plane was designed to be capable of a nuclear attack against the soviet Union Aspin said. It is now called into question whether it will Ever be Able Todo that Mission in the Way it was  the air Force said the existing system was discovered to be incapable of meeting the. Specification  Aspin was in Wisconsin for the weekend and could not be reached for comment by the associated press. Pentagon spokeswoman capt. Nancy Laluntas had no comment on the report. Air Force officials said the tests found that parts of the plane s electronic countermeasures system de signed to help protect the Low flying aircraft on its most critical bombing missions does not work and cannot be corrected without major changes the news paper said. Aspin who has been a critic of the air Force s management of the by program said the test results were a major setback for the $28 billion bomber program. The a is history has been beset with controversy. The Pentagon began production of the by but former president Carter killed the program saying it was too costly and was made unnecessary by development of stealth bombers designed to make detection difficult. President Reagan revived the by calling it a critical leg of his strategic plan and won congressional funding for 100 planes by vowing to keep a ceiling on the Price. Since the first bombers became operational in the fall of 1986, the plane has been plagued by problems ranging from its flight controls to its terrain hugging radar. Aspin sent committee members a memorandum stating that the recently completed tests carried out bythe air Force and Eaton the electronic countermeasures system s builder revealed limitations within the current system architecture that will prevent the by eco from Ever achieving full operational capability the newspaper said. The architecture in t any Good and. It s Back tothe drawing Board he said