European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday january 14,1989 news briefs 737 s engines were wired correctly paper reports London a investigators have deter mined that the engines of a Boeing 737 that crashed sunday North of London were correctly wired a newspaper said. The report if True would Rule put a possible cause of the disaster. Meanwhile the plane s engines were crated for shipment Friday to France where the manufacturer will search for clues to the cause of the crash. The British Midland airways Jet flying fro London to Belfast Northern Ireland crashed into a Roadside embankment while attempting an emergency Landing at an Airport 100 Miles North of London. The disaster killed 44 people and injured 82. Investigators Are now trying to solve a major mystery in the crash Why the plane s right engine shut Down when the left engine was on fire. The Pilot had reported his right engine on fire but evidence of a fire was found afterwards Only in the left engine. The cfm56 engines jointly made by general electric and Snelma of France will be stripped Down at Snelma s Plant Southof Paris the British transport department said. Greek turkish dispute ties up push for arms talks Vienna Austria a nato the Warsaw act and 12 other european nations on Friday in formally accepted a landmark human rights and Security Accord designed to enhance Freedom in the soviet bloc and boost East West contacts. But a greek turkish deadlock continued to prevent final agreement on a mandate for new East West arms talks. Diplomats searching for a solution to the stubborn dispute Between the two nato allies reported no firm Progress Friday and schedule their next session of nato Warsaw pact talks for saturday at 10 . . Secretary of state George Shultz will no come to Vienna next week to wind up the 35 nation Helsinki review conference unless the greek turkish dispute is solved said Stephen Ledogar . Ambassador to the arms talks. Greece and Turkey Are arguing Over whether to include a strategic Triangle of turkish territory close to the syrian Border and the dispute port of Mersin in new East West talks on reducing conventional forces in Europe. Shultz and the foreign ministers of the other nations involved Are supposed to end the Helsinki conference with a three Day meeting next week. The mandate for the new arms talks is sup posed to be included in the final document of the 35-nation Helsinki review conference which opened in Vienna in november 1986. Soldier collapses Dies during morning training run Darmstadt West Germany is a 22-year-old Soldier assigned to the 596th main Tco at Kelley Barracks died Early Friday during a morning training run a Community spokeswoman said. The Soldier was taken to a battalion Aid station where he was pronounced dead. The cause of the Soldier s death has not Bee determined. His name is being withheld until his family has been notified. Beretta from Page 1 Mission $15,428. Along with the facts and figures there Are some performance opinions in the article the Beretta 92f the pistol. Hates Corner smore than any device cd has tested since the 1964 am we liked the solid heft and natural feel of the italian lightweight. It Falls easily to hand. No such provision is designed into the five Speed get rag shifter fitted to our . Test Sample perhaps because while the italian Aims to be on the hip of everybody in uni form the american Aims Only to be uniform among everybody you can Field strip the italian in minutes with out tools while the same task performed on the Chevy would require countless hours and untold broken Apo mail recovered from pan am crash site Bidav Odiehl . Bureau Ramstein a West Germany investigators at the crash site of pan am flight 103 have recovered at least 40 pieces of Apo mail that had been aboard the doomed Airliner military postal officials said Friday. Forty three bags of priority mail bound for Dallas fort Worth International Airport in Texas were on the plane when a bomb exploded in its cargo hold Over Lockerbie Scotland dec. 21. All 259 people on Boarland 11 people on the ground were killed. The recovered mail is being held by crash investigators in Lockerbie according to it. Col. Jim Woosley jr., commander of the 7025th air postal so at Kapaun air station West Germany. Postal workers will put the mail Back into the postal system As soon As investigators release it he said. Each item will be accompanied by a letter explaining that it had been aboard the pan am flight. Woosley said a Navy postal worker from holy Loch Scotland who worked with investigators at the scene had reported that "40 plus pieces of mail had Bee recovered. However Woosley said he was not sure How much mail had been found or its condition. Officials said a piece of mail could be anything from a letter to a bag of mail. The mail that was aboard the flight came from a least a dozen military Post offices in England Woosley said. All of the mail was bound for zip codes begin Ning with the number 7. Most of the mail on the flight probably was posted by Apo patrons one to two Day before the crash he said. Only people with insured mail that May have Bee lost in the crash can make a claim from the . Postal service Woosley said. None of the mail was from Fpo addresses a spokes Man at . Navy Europe Headquarters in Londo said Friday. British warplane collides with 2 w. German fighters Bremen West Germany a a British Torna do warplane collided with two West German Jet fight ers Over a Northern Village Friday killing the two Brit ish crewmen and in Jung the West German Pilot police said. Several houses were slightly damaged on the Edge Ofui exmoor by debris from the Tornado but there were no civilian casualties Wie Smoor police said. The Accident comes amid growing complaints among the West German Public about the dangers to civilians from nato training flights Over this densely populated country. A spokesman at the West German defense ministry inborn said the British plane flew into a group of eight West German Alfa Jet fighters that were preparing to land at Theair base at Wittmond near the town of Wie Smoor. The Tornado crashed into a Field just outside wies Moor while one West German plane came Down a few Miles away the spokesman said. The other plane Man aged to land safely the spokesman said. Wie Smoor is 50 Miles Northwest of the port City of Bremen. The Pilot of the West German Jet that crashed was injured he said. Identities of the British Crew killed in the crash will not be released pending notification of next of Kin a British forces spokesman said. He said a team of experts was travelling to the scene to investigate the crash. The last major nato plane crash occurred dec. 8,when a . Air Force a-10 plunged into a Row of houses in Remscheid killing five people on the ground and the Pilot. Body from Page 1 an incident. At the Airport a delegation including two Vatican officials and several italian diplomats and air Force officers met the plane. No . Officials we represent. The White coffin draped with an american Flag and topped with wreaths of red and Orange Flowers was carried off the rear Section of the plane by the italian air Force officers in Blue uniforms and libyans in Green fatigues. The Vatican said it was acting As an intermediary for humanitarian Vatican sources said the libyans first approached the Vatican around dec. 15. Lorence and Fernando Ribas Dominicci 33, of Utuado puerto Rico were in an full that disappeared during the april 15, 1986, raids on Tripoli an Benghazi. Witnesses reported seeing an full crash into the Mediterranean soon after the plane was hit during the raid. The other 17 . Air Force bombers returned safely to their bases after dropping about 100 tons of bombs on the cities. Three months after the 1986 . Attack libyan television showed pictures of a body it said was Lor ence. Libyan authorities have made to mention of Ribas Dominicci. Probe from Page 1 said he had no other information about the probe. Imhausen Cherie Ibi and pen Tsao have been named by . Officials in their accusations that West German companies aided Libya in building the Plant. Federal officials have audited Imhausen Chemi and said they could find no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the Lahr based company. Federal officials also cleared pen Tsao of suspicions of wrongdoing but said investigators were examining records seized from Ibi which is no longer in business. To and Magazine reports have shown Bank documents and other records said to establish libyan financial links with Imhausen Cherie and Ibi. Chancellor Helmut Kohl thursday said authorities uncovered new documents implicating West German companies in deliveries of equipment for the Plant. His spokesman Friedhelm Ost Friday conceded that West German officials first Learned of indications in october that West German companies were involved with the Plant. Ost was asked about reports alleging that West Ger Man officials have known for As Long As two years that Imhausen Cherie and other West German companies May have been involved in the project. He said intelligence sources mentioned the possibility of West German involvement in october. But he said they had no evidence then or now that can be used for Legal action against any West German companies. Friday s announcement followed the arrest of a Bel Gian shipping agent linked to the Case and Confirma Tion thursday by Libya s . Ambassador that West German companies assisted in the project. Abc news reported thursday that libyan officials contacted West German companies for cleanup help after a dangerous chemical spill at the facility in a gust. Both Abc and the new York times quoted unidentified officials As saying the evidence included extensive interceptions of Telephone conversations be tween the libyans and their suppliers
