European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Safe champs kick off season Rhein main coach Warren Stanley and two of his players stride by a Little cheerleader. Turn to Page 23 for Csc loot Ball action. Authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning pc vol. 48. No. 119 monday August 14, 1989 so m suno., d 8693 Ano survivors be and plane disintegrated when it slammed into Cliff Addis Ababa Ethiopia a searchers on sunday found the wreckage of a missing plane of . Congressional delegation in southwestern Ethiopia but reported no survivors among the 16 people believed to be on Board officials said. At the very latest we have 12 bodies said James Haley chief spokesman for the . Embassy at Addis Ababa. It is fair to say the others arc presumed Haley earlier had said 13 bodies were recovered and three were missing and presumed dead. In Washington Navy Cam. Stan Bloyer told a de sense department news conference that the plane Dis integrated in the crash. There is evidence of a Post Impact fire he condition of the wreckage docs not allow a pre Cise body the plane crashed in Gambula a town in Southwest Ern Ethiopia 30 Miles from the sudanese Border and 60 Miles from the refugee Camp where the aircraft was headed Haley said in a Telephone interview. It went Down in the Highlands near two dirt Pilot May have been trying to reach the airstrips because of bad weather. The delegation was led by rep. Mickey Leland head of the House select committee on hunger. Bloyer said searchers were canvassing the sur rounding area but he added officials believed it was extremely unlikely anyone survived the crash. A member of the search team reported there was no possibility of survivors Bloyer said. It was. said the Pilot of a . Air Force c-130 that flew Over the crash site a Cliff 4,300 feel up the Side of a 5,500-foot Mountain. Officials originally had said the flight which left last monday for the refugee Camp had 14 people on Board. They later said two ethiopians had boarded increasing the total number on the plane to 16. Bloyer said sunday that of Licals were still Uncertain about the exact number on Board. We Don t know if there were some ethiopians who boarded the plane at the last moment he said. In Addis Ababa Haley said the wreckage was found in terrain so rugged that medical teams which included two doctors had to be lowered to the site from helicopters. The nearest place helicopters could land was half a mile away Haley said. Defense department spokesman Mel Sudin in a statement released earlier sunday said that rescuers arrived at the scene about 45 minutes after the crash site was discovered. Leland was accompanied by eight americans. They included three members of his staff a Friend of the congressman three workers for the . Agency for International development and the wife of one of the see Leland on Back Page rep. Mickey Leland holds a child during a visit lie made to a sudanese refugee Camp last april we come Home columbian of Edwards fab Calif. A the Columbia space shuttle swooped out of orbit and landed safely in the Mojave desert on sunday at the end of a secret Mission in which astronauts released a superspy satellite to photograph military targets around the Globe. Air Force col. Brewster Shaw com Mander of the five member Crew guided the 97-ton winged spaceship to a touch Down on a hard Clay runway at 6 37 . After a flight that covered More than 2 million Miles in five Days one hour. A super team and a great machine Welcome Home Columbia Frank Culbert son an astronaut who was the spacecraft communicator at Mission control in hous ton told the Crew As the spacecraft rolled Down the runway after a perfect Landing. After securing systems aboard the spacecraft for nearly an hour the Astro nauts did a walk around inspection of the Veyhle. They found a few of the 30,000 tiles for heat Protection missing which was Normal. They then were driven to a nearby facility for physical exams and showers. An hour before Landing Shaw fired twin officials Check he Columbia moments after its Landing at Edwards fab Calif. Braking rockets to drop the shuttle out of orbit and Start it on a fiery dive through the atmosphere and into this desert air base 80 Miles North of los Angeles. Mission control lifted its curtain of silence to report the successful firing. All parties Here report a Good de orbit Burn All systems aboard Columbia Are clean reported Brian Welch the control Center commentator. Sonic booms cracked overhead As the Columbia descended through a Clear sky and made its sweeping approach to run Way 17 on Rogers dry Lake. The weather was Ideal with Clear skies unlimited visibility and mild tem As Many As half a million peo ple have flocked to the desert air base to watch previous shuttles land sunday touchdown was closed to the Public be cause of the classified nature of the mis news about the flight has been blacked out on Pentagon orders since an overhauled Columbia lifted off tuesday from Cape canaveral on its first flight in 3 a was allowed to make Only Peri Odic statements that the spacecraft an Crew were Fine and to disclose the land ing close to the project said the flight s main goal was the deployment of sophisticated 10-ton spy satellite designed to snap highly detailed photographs of Mili tary installations troop movements and other targets around the a satellite would help the United see Columbia on Back Page the Best port i be been fo7n 14 years pages 13-15
