European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I a sleep Jervas nol a  lie writes is the culprit lords o Good look Al i he Lah Guo planes Don i crash hied say shoe Perls i killer Only when something or i he weather go a no fort Lau Dordal might s ailed is they did in Detroit Sright could have Boon fatal i there was no evidence be Light rules seem favourable 1o jots Are limited to eight hours Verscaj pile is Fly no More Nusl gel at least eight hours jul sequences Gul Lions count Only no not Iho hours spent on a Ling has. So scheduled scheduled delays can push 16 hours events Boldeon airlines and Ghl hours Well below Federal i Cessions to management Iran place amid Iho Cicchi on by deregulation a Ocsman or Iho airline pills hat 10 years Ayo. At the Start e typical con act limited Xirum of 75 Lobo hours Par  ssh a Tobul Juis. Continental airlines pilots who lost their contract Vixen the company reorganized in 1983. Now by 20 percent More hours a month. The company says its Highl hours Arn still Well under the Industry average. Northwest pilots complain their company has interpreter regulations to allow International Crews lev ing Homo to take on additional Domestic flights. Adding up to loin High hours to their Day norlhv.o5. Citing ongoing negotiations a la the pilots declined to comment. When United airlines acquired pan american s Pacific routes in 1986, its pilots laced e London High hours and reduced Crew size on the longer routes. A separate contract added a Day of work each month. Many pilots interviewed complain the Scales Are tipped Loo tar toward economics at the expense of safoly1 1 pc vol 400 people in that air plane and i Lake in very  said a United 747 Pilot it s a responsibility and you know this in t Good far the passengers " the tire of chartered do a bums after tha plane crashed following Lake ton a snowy Day in Gander. Newfoundland dec. 11,1985. Did  to crash by Fred Bayles and Daniel  associated press the crash of a be Tinor i Newfoundland three years ago that killed 256u.s. Soldiers and Crew members resulted in part irom the exhaustion of the Light Crew who ignored ice on the piano s wings according to a preliminary Canadian report a shall unto loaded draft report by the Canadian aviation safety Board noted the Crow had blown a grueling schedule in the two weeks before the Accident. Had icy finished the trip the Captain would have been awake 24 hours i think those people were  or. Stanley Mohler said in an interview. They had been on a series of flights prior to that which wore la Guing. I just think they needed a Good night of  Mower Lead of aerospace Medicine at Wright state univ Cisily m Dayton Ohio advised the Canadian Board on Aligue factors in the Cash Tho plane an Airow air Charier crashed dec 2.19b5, while taking Olf irom a refuelling Stop Al can def International Airport killing everyone aboard. Tara plane was a Iryma us troops irom peacekeeping Dulies in Tho Sinai Peninsula to Forl Campbell in Kentucky. The preliminary report lists ice on the wings of the plane As the principal cause of the crash but it says that a Loo slow Lake of Speed and Light Crew fatigue were Conan Bung factors. Spokesman James hams said the Board Hopes to release a final version of the report in Eaily december it May Bear no similarity to Iho draft report he said. In tact it wont ii will to Quilo different he said he did nol know whether Latigue would Slit be listed As a contributing cause the fall report said Hal twice in the two weeks before Iho crash Tho Crew had flown longer than allowed by us regulations. According to Federal rules no Crew member May be on duly aloft Lor More than 12 hours in any 24 hour period. If the flight had made Illo Oakland. Calif., its final planned Stop the Crew would have flown Aboul 15 hours and been on duty Lor 20. However because the plane would have carried no passengers on its final leg. This trip would nol have Viola cd led Cral limits. Tho Board could nol Dole Iino will certainty whether the Pilot co Pilot or might Engineer wore icily fatigued however in cited Mohler s testimony Hal in the 12 Days leading up to Tho Accident. The flight Crew had been consist Nelly exposed to work patterns and Latigue producing factors which were highly conducive to Iho development of chronic Latigue " these included Short layovers Ghl departures multiple Lime zone Crossings and almost 57 hours in inc air in Iho previous 10 Days in one 48-hour period that month the Crew hew Lor More than ?2 hours then were Back in Iho cockpit seven hours later the report said Hal at Gander the View failed to notice Ica on the wings which prevented inc plane from gaining All tudo alter it lifted of and they Sel the wrong Takeoff Speed. Each of those would to consistent with lived  Mohler said. Tired pilots do things like thai they omit things. They make mistakes " sober 9. 1988 the stars and stripes paga15