European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday March 4, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 Pilot could t Fly stricken Jet by Book tells of hot Landing with Only 2 engines by Post Washington just after inc cargo door blew off the United airlines jumbo Jet flying at 22,000 feel Over the Pacific. Capt. David Cronin to hurried to he emergency procedures he had Learned in 38 years of training. Out Cronin could not Fly flight 81 by the Bouklas week. There were no rules on How to Fly a 700.000-Pound Hulk of aluminium with a Hole in oneside and Only two engines operating on the other. Part of the emergency descent procedure is to pull he Power Back and put on the Speed Brake. At 270 knots you re supposed to drop the Landing gear Cronin said in a Telephone interview from san Francisco because we were on two engines if t had done that we would have lost 100 much Altitude to make it Back. So i held off on extending the gear the former air Force fighter Pilot described by mime As looking and sounding so much like the stereotype airline Pilot thai he could play one in movie had to resort to a number of other techniques to safely land Ilic disabled jetliner feb. 24, he said he gripped the control column with Bot hands to keep from losing control of the aircraft developed leg cramps while using his feet to work floor mounted rudder controls and had to constantly revise airspeed calculations because the aircraft was overweight and the iq-by-20-foot Hole in its right Side caused a lot a drag it was a difficult situation to keep the aircraft pointed in the direction we wanted to go and make it do what wanted it to do he said. I Don t think a747 has Ever flown on two engines at that weight. My concern for being overweight was staying airborne Rich 811 from Honolulu to Auckland new Zea land was to be Cronin s second to last trip for United. Me was scheduled to Fly one More trip to austra Lia before his 6qih.birchday, when Federal regulations require that Hevr Elire from piloting for any major commercial and his two Crew member were steering the Jet at 320 knots around some thunderstorms when a Forward door and part of the fuselage above it ripped open about 17 minutes after Takeoff. the storm Cronin had Kepi inc fasten seat Bell lighten longer than usual and the Crew could see lightning from the cockpit window. Seconds after the. Fuselage broke open sweeping nine passengers to i hair deaths Cronin said the right inboard engine on the Wing just behind the gaping flight 811 attendant thurol Preston right is comforted by Loralee no live it u press conference this week about inc disastrous flight. Hole stopped. The Crew secured it. Two minutes after that co Pilot Gregory Slider saw names coming from the outboard right engine and the Crew shutdown that engine too. Slader radioed to air traffic control leis thai the Jet was returning to Honolulu and needed emergency equip tent. The flight Engineer Randal Thomas started dumping fuel which began to flow from the Jet s wings at the rate of 5.000 Gallons a minute. Approximately 90,000 pounds of fuel was dumped to lighten it for Landing. Cronin said Thomas ran from the e0ckpil, Dow the spiral staircase to the main Cabin to inspect the damage. Things were Jas org Virv rapidly Ihnn. We were very Busy Cronin said. The most difficult part was we did 1 have just one emergency. We had com pounded emergencies. Usually if an Airliner has an t flip Chi Alti utlant Union repro Stela cd it s usually an engine fire or a 1 at about 4,000 feel the Jet emerged from the Clouds. The iwo engines under its left Wing were running on maximum Power and the Jet was still descend requested air give him a to Honolulu s longest runway. Cronin tried to lower the Wing flaps which he discovered were damaged and could not be completely extended. He had to kind Normal Landing Speed with All four engines would have been 132 knots. The Crew estimated that170 knots would be Safe. Cronin chose to touch Down at .200 knots because he was afraid of losing control of the Jet if he slowed it further. We Only had one shot at it. We were on to engines at 600.000 pounds the sanding gear ant the laps were Down Cronin said. To life we no in you re going to go around again Georgia court voids minority contract program Atlanta not Georgia s High est court relying on a recent . Supreme court decision on affirmative action has overturned a widely copied program that Lii is guided Atlanta con Struc Liun contracts to minority the state supreme court ruled Friday that the program which sets Ai goal of j5 percent minority participation in City finance construction contracts tailed to meet the standards of a . Supreme court decision in january involving similar program in Richmond a. It was not immediately Clear what the total effect of halting the award of new contracts would be but Shirley Franklin the City administrator said one item sure to. Be. Affected would. Be the scheduled opening bids on a $7 million municipal court construction Job nest week she said no decision had been made on How to Deal with millions of dollars in work now going on or in projects on the drawing boards the Georgia court slopped Short of saying such racially based efforts As at Lanta minority female business enter prise program to broaden participation in City contracts wore unconstitutional and violated the slate s own equal Protection clause the court s decision a raid rather assuming without deciding the. Mobe is constitutional on its a strict scrutiny using that Standard which was applied As Well in the Richmond Case the court said Atlanta officials had foiled to produce convincing evidence of discrimination needed to justify the pro Gram. Pork rinds finest food on the planet Nahunta . A even i Good limes it s hard for southerners to trash anything from a hag. Hence the presidential snack pork rinds you Don t throw nothing away said Larry Pierce manager of inc Nahunta pork Center Vou use Vicry thing from a hog but he squeal.1 it s inc finest food substance Avail Able on the planet said state sen. Wendell Murphy a Duplin count hog Farmer. Hogs provide More than hams pork chops Bacon and sausage. Their feel Are pickled the intestines Are used a casings for sausage the tails arc used far seasoning and the hide ends up infancy driving gloves shoes and presi Dent Bush s favorite Munc . It will probably be Good for the pork Industry but inert s not much Way for it to help our business said Pierce whose father founded the pork a mar 24 years ago. We process 100skins a week and can t meet the de Mand from our customers As it is a machine slices the skin off pork pieces. The skin pieces Are cooked for four hours in vats to dry out Iii Fau then the hard shrivelled skins a deep Fried. The pieces of skin swell and pop turning into puffy slabs in minutes. A half ounce serving of pork Rind provides Lille in the Way of nutrition potato chips and peanuts have More nutrients but also More fat and cholesterol. A department of agriculture Analy Sis showed a two ounce package of rinds contains 315 calories. 32.5 grains of protein 18.9 Grams of fat. 58 Milli Grams of cholesterol and ,05-l Milli Grams of that does t like them has Jusi never lasted them Murphy , a Democrat said he was aware of the Republican president suse of symbolism in the i Tib cum pain but he did not believe Hus used rinds As a populist snack to fight a less than Macho image i really Thini he ate h
