European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Is 28 the stars and stripes wednesday. December 2b. 1988 now cold Blanket Midwest Plains ii the asocial cd press a Gigantic cleanup Effort faced Resi dents of the Midwest and Plains tuesday after a monday storm carrying wind chills nf45 degrees he Low dumped 12 inches of Snow closing highways and backing up air traffic just As Holiday trav Elers we re head ing Home. " \ Ray Noll a Reserve officer with tile Porter county ind., sheriff s depart ment said a least 25 cars were involved in a pileup on an interstate Highway in the Northern Indiana county. Another pileup of As Many As 30 cars was reported in Indiana s Northeast county of Porter when a propane Tanker overturned on interstate 65 monday morning. Vale police said. Snow fell or was in the forecast from lilt Rockies and upper Plains As far cast As Ohio. Accidents and blowing Snow closed segments or interstate highways in several states including Utah Minnesota Indiana and South Dakota. The storm knocked out Power to More than 50,000 Homes and businesses in Eastern South Dakota monday afternoon by about to hours when High winds caused Power lines to bang together and Short circuit said a spokesman for Northern states Power co. The Snow caused delays of at least 30 minutes for planes taking Oft and Landing at Chicago s o Harc International air port said a Federal aviation administration duty officer. United cancelled All of its o Hare flights monday afternoon said spokes Man Rob Doughty it was nil known How Many flights were affected but on a Normal Day. United has 400 departures from o Harc he said. Wind Thill readings fell to degrees below in Jamestown  Livingslon Mont. Douglas Wye of she rapid City . It was the same storm system that earlier brought Jill to 2 feel or More of Snow in thex Cost with the mountains of Utah and Colorado particularly hard hit. Powder Mountain Utah reported 26 . A. In Utah officials warned of avalanches in mountains and Wasatch front after. Riches of Snow were fore cast for. The areas. Authorities warned thai Large spontaneous avalanches were in Cly on All slopes above 7,000 feet. The storm kept Utah department o transportation Crews Busy sunday and at least one Section of interstate 84 was closed monday because of Drifting Snow. Warroad. Minn., had the nation s Low temperature monday morning 21 de Grees below even before the wind Chil was factored in. Ii was 18 below at Cut Bank Mont., and 14 below at Lovelock nev., and Bull Mont. Army grounds Chinook copters Washington a the army has grounded its 234 ch-47d medium lift Chinook helicopters to allow inspection of possibly faulty transmissions. Ten Chinook have been involved in accidents since 1985, and 16 soldiers. Were killed in crashes involving the Heli copter this year although there is no in. Ski Ituen thai faulty transmissions were he cause. Army spokeswoman Paige eve . The army grounded the copter Fleet in what it called a precautionary act Ion after the manufacturer Boeing Verlo disco i Rcd that certain transmissions May have been improperly assembled the army announce Nierfi said. In the most surf ii Chinook Accident five servicemen were killed Loti a crash in Honduras on dec. Sol Sis feb. 25, 11 soldiers were killed in a Chinook crash Nea Chico Texas ". A turned to flight status ,11 their 10-hour inspections were completed Etc Solc told the stars and stripes at the time Boeing is sending inspection teams to look at the. Retainer Boll Assembly which tear from Page 1 medical Center iter treatment of minor. Army Sofij Fais arc still invest Ligating Loo t the retainer Boll Assembly injuries. I the dec g incident but there is no Susok ?.provides for the proper alignment of in passengers described the sudden blast Cion turf it was linked to the possible Teal gearing and bearings within the of air that whipped through the Craft. A. When the Hole Bleep Ppck transmission problem Etc Solc said. A right now we Are not speculating at All on the cause of that Accident she said. We Don t know whether there is a relationship Between that Accident and this problem. The army is very Quick to ground the Fleet,., for preventive care on dec. 13, the army had ordered a temporary suspension of flying while each Chinook underwent an extensive safely Check. The aircraft were to be re main transmission the spokeswoman said?.the. Inspections will require 30 Days thu announcement said. The find Chinook ch-47d entered army service in 1979, replacing older ch-47  army is gradually replacing the remaining 146 older Chi nooks with if pm Model which. Has More powerful engines and transmissions fibreglass Rotor binges and advanced flight control syst cons the announcement said. A policeman in  Scotland checks Trucl Taine front the pan am crash in which at least 270 died. Crash from Page 1 investigation of the structural aspect of the Accident is a slow process no Evi Dence of a structural failure has so far been found. However the possibility of such a failure is still being actively  pieces of wreckage and a suit Case Are today being taken to the Royal armament research and development establishment at fort Halstead for More detailed examination to determine whether they exhibit evidence of a pre Impact explosion.". Fran Taylor a spokesman for the department  in London said it was not known whether the suitcase had Beta checked onto the plane in Frankfurt or in London. But pan am said in Lon Don that the suitcase being examined by the British authorities was checked in at London.  officials it the United slates embassy which is also involved in the investigation said they could add nothing to charts statement. The plane pan american flight 103, suddenly disintegrated in the air when it was less than an hour out of Heathrow Airport in route to new York City. Some 44 passengers and their Luggage boarded the first leg of pan am flight 103  in Frankfurt on a Boeing 727 thai landed at Heathrow. An official in Washington said Over the weekend that one of them was an employee of the Central intelligence Agency s station in Beirut. On Friday callers who said they rep resented a group called guardians of the islamic revolution thought to be linked to the party of god a lebanese faction controlled by iranian militants told news agencies in London that they were responsible for bringing Down the plane. The authorities Here treated the assertion Wilh  that a bomb might have blown up the plane was increased by the fact that on dec. 5, a caller had warned state department officials that there would be a bombing attempt in Decem Ber involving a pan am aircraft flying from Frankfurt to the . Utilish police were made aware of the warning but decided their already Light Security procedures at Heathrow Airport were sufficient they said last week. When you Felt told air right away you knew the outside was coming in said Elaine Davie. 40i a passenger from Rochester . Hey ears still ached after popping when that plane quickly descended she said t passenger Sam Yazza 55 of Boca Raton Fin said Hernd his wife at first thought a bomb had exploded. We were cruising along and you could hear the Rush of he wind and the pitch of the wind Andrall of a sudden you could linear a his Pap he said. Another passenger David Moore 39, of Phoenix ariz., said he was concerned about an unusual noise before Takeoff. There was a def inc wind noise not from the Back of fit plane but from above our Heads said Moore. The second officer came Jack looked at it and decided it was l  but co Pilot Garlun to Jones 40, disputed Moore s Caroun and Sard the Sec Ond officer went to in ear of the plane to help flight attendants close the aft door prior to  the Hole broke open i looked up and could Sec sunlight shining through Moore  roof of a 19-Yedfold Boeing 737 Tore off an Aloha airline flight at 24,000 feet on april 28, Killin on person and injuring 61. The Accident was blamed on cracks in the fuselage skin from repeated pressurization and degress urination of he Cabin. That Accident prompted a Federal investigation into the agog Fleet of jets and the Faa ordered and pcs to replace rivets bal iced to have c used cracks we were just going filing and they were serving the first