European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday january 9,1989 fatalities reported in Jet crash London a an Airliner carrying 125 people crash landed on an embankment beside a Highway sunday night As it approached a Central England air port for an emergency Landing authorities said. The British broadcasting corporation reported 10dead. The fire brigade reported some fatalities. The civil aviation authority said the British mid land airways Boeing 737-400 was in route from Lon Don s Heathrow Airport to Belfast Northern Ireland when it reported engine trouble. British Midland spokesman Michael Bishop said the Pilot reported severe vibrations in one of the engines and asked clearance for an emergency Landing at East midlands Airport. He undershot the runway Bishop said. Civil aviation authority spokeswoman Ann said survivors were being removed from the air Craft. The authority said the plane crashed near Kegworth about 100 Miles North of London in Leicestershire. An ambulance spokesman in the City of Leicester said there were fatalities but it was not known How Many. It was the second major plane crash in Britain i three weeks. A pan am Jet on dec. 21 blew up Over Lockerbie Scotland killing All 259 on Board and 11 people on the ground. That Jet had also left Heathrow. A bomb has been blamed for the crash. Wrong body sent victim s family says Rochester . A the family of a Syra Cuse University student killed in the explosion of pan am flight 103 Learned shortly before her schedule funeral that they had received the wrong body the victim s father said saturday. I know my daughter is still out there somewhere either in Scotland unidentified or shipped somewhere else said Robert Hunt. And we have a body her that some family is grieving Hunt said the body was examined by the Monroe county medical examiner s office on Friday. Examiners on saturday used dental records and a rays to reach their conclusion. A they told me this morning they were 100 percent Posi Tive it was t Karen s body he said in a Telephone inter View from his Home in the Rochester suburb of Webster. Or. Frederick j. Halik a specialist in dental identification of the dead said he determined the body was not Karen s after examining it in the medical examiner s office saturday. Nothing matched. Just about nothing Hali said. Or. Nicholas Forbes chief medical examiner said other physical discrepancies also existed. British officials in Lockerbie Scotland said the were investigating. A question has been raised regarding the body of Karen Hunt officials said in a statement. The mat Ter is the subject of further discussion and examination by appropriate medical Hunt received word tuesday from authorities i Scotland that the body of his daughter who would have turned 21 saturday had been identified. The girl s aunt then called officials in Scotland to Geta description of the clothes on the body he said. What the person Over there described did t soundalike Karen shunt said. The funeral which had been scheduled for Friday was postponed. Hunt said he s concerned another family might receive Karen s body and cremate it without knowing its True Iden Tity. You can exhume a body but you can t identify it once it s been cremated he said. Hunt was returning to new York after completing Aone semester program in Syracuse University s Divi Sion of International programs abroad in London. Venetian carnival a fish shaped boat in Venice Italy sails along the launching was just one of a series of events held canal Grande under the Rialto Bridge. The boat s saturday to open carnival in this Lagoon City. Soviets from Page 1 stockpiling of such weapons. The . Position Hansen said is that we will begin destroying chemical weapons in Advance of the treaty and that we will continue to destroy these chem ical weapons albeit on a limited scale whether or not there is a what they Are doing is playing catch up Ball said one senior member of the . Delegation to the five Day conference which ends wednesday. He spoke on condition of anonymity. The United states while destroying older chemical weapons on a limited basis in Utah continues to modernize them. . Officials in Paris said there has Bee no Way to verify whether the soviet Union has indeed halted production. The United states and the soviet Union have been the Only countries to acknowledge the production and stockpiling of chemical weapons. The United states says it produces the arms to counter those made by the soviets. . Officials estimate some 20 other countries pos sess the weapons. In april 1987, soviet president Mikhail s. Gorba Chev said his country had stopped manufacturing chemical weapons. In october the soviet Union destroyed some chemical weapons in front of Western observers but it was done to illustrate a new openness on the subject and not As part of a program to destroy the toxic agents. In 1987, the soviet Union declared it had 50,000 tons of chemical weapons. Western military experts estimate the soviet stockpile at 100,000 to 500,000 tons. The United states has about 30,000 tons official say. After an 18-year lapse the United states resumed production of chemical weapons in december 1987,saying that much of its aging stockpile was obsolete. Libya from Page 1 were needed for an arriving ministry aides assigned to Monitor for eign journalists movements knocked on the doors of some journalists rooms saturday night saying there were two special planes for Malta and they were being ordered to leave immediately. Other journalists heard Only from their colleagues that they were being expelled. But no one was forced out and by Midnight it appeared the news corps would be sent packing in the morning. Ministry aides on sunday refused to explain the hurriedly issued expulsion order. When pressed for a reason one aide in the hotel lobby walked away with out a word. At least 100 journalists were put on two buses forthe Airport for the sunday afternoon flight to Rome. The italian news Agency Ansa reported that to Deal with the sudden number of extra passengers a italia the italian state Carrier used a larger aircraft for the 1hour, 55 minute flight to Rome. Those who remained were told they would shortly be put on a special charter flight to Malta. But two hours later reporters camera Crew and photographers were still milling about the hotel lobby. Germany from Page 1 and . Officials would meet to review intelligence regarding the libyan Plant and possible involvement by West German companies. Also on sunday Kohl said in a radio interview that the government would vigorously pursue firms if they Are found to be engaged in activities damaging to peace in other countries. He renewed a request that . Officials provide Concrete evidence to West German authorities if they Are still con Vinced that German firms were involved in the production of a libyan chemical weapons Plant. No such evidence has so far been uncovered by West German officials Kohl said. Kohl said that West German Export Laws would be toughened to reduce the risk of such technology transfers in a move that he said was Independent of the current controversy. The West German Cabinet was scheduled to consider package of proposals designed to stiffen Export controls at a meeting tuesday. In a related development West German and British newspapers reported that an iraqi citizen was responsible for building and equipping the Plant. The observer a weekly London newspaper reported that the Man identified As or. Ihsen Barboutis operated through a string of Small firms in several countries. It said Barboutis s companies in Switzerland West Ger Many and Libya have been responsible for the civil Engi Neering at the Complex. The Bonn based die Welt newspaper said sunday that Barboutis s Frankfurt company organized the technical aspects of the project and that a London Branch handle personnel matters. The newspaper said employment contracts were mad with austrian and British building engineers from the Lon Don office. Die Welt said financial transactions were handled by Barboutis s Swiss office and that a japanese Branch was in charge of handling the metallurgical deliveries
