European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse The memory lingers continued tron Page 1 there and look at Navarro said i wanted to know it i War sane enough to handle it i wanted to make sure i was t going to taint " she stood there Lor five minutes it seemed like a Long she said a year later i Mink a lot of people expect women to cry i was shaking like a Leal that was my Way of letting my emotions out but i Don t remember crying at All " spreading the word aug 28 was a Day Olf Tor master sgt Michael Sylvia Sylvia had been watching the aerobatics at a distance while his wife and children wandered off to the Static displays. I saw the planes come together Sparks flew and then there was a fireball on the recalled Sylvia n training no assigned to the 86th tac fighter Wing s command Post at Ramstein realizing alter the Accident that he d be needed at his workplace. Sylvia hopped on his bicycle and peddled off on a live minute ride to his of. When an Accident occurs the command Post staff s main Job is to notify necessary personnel and advise Ulicni to report to work by the time i got in. I had Whiee agencies to work on. I had to make 12 or 13 Calls to reach a total of three people you list have to find Sylvia said that was t the Only complication the command Post War being renovated at the Lime and the stall was to Kinq in cramped slightly unfamiliar quarters. Phone problems developed two or three hours after the crash because of the crush of callers on the base who were attempting to Call the outside world Sylvia left work Between 10 p m. And 11 p.m., walking ins lightness bicycle toward his Home in Weierbach a Village 10 two land Miles away from the base. A tire on his Bike went Flat spotting a car with us plates parked in Iron of a House. Sylvia went to the door and asked to Call his Wile Lor a ride you d dial about iwo numbers and get a Busy signal Sylvia said the Guy asked me where i lived. Then he said to d put the Bike in the trunk of the car and take me a year later Sylvia does t think much about the disaster. Call it cold hearted if you want Sylvia said but it s another scenario and it s something you be practice Lor we d lost three f-16s before that and i knew one of the pilots and i Felt a loss for that but Tor flu tag i had no lies to anyone involved a family affair a Tiriola Hauck still wails for her husband. Jurgen to Omu Home from work each Day but realizing he is gone forever the widow from the town of Birkenfeld is spending the anniversary weekend of Tho disastrous flu glad at a Retreat with others who lost husbands wives children and friends in the disasters a Jim Dora Flint Karl Hellig has limited movement in his Arm from Burns he received during the Ramstein a disaster. Is Lynow Spiik Michael Sylvia a training no at Ramstein notified personnel to report to work alter the Accident. She last saw her husband three minutes before the italian it crashed near the spectators. Three Days later Hauck and her son Thomas were summoned to Ramstein to identity Jurgen s underwear his wedding ring and a Gold ring now worn by Thomas. We wanted to sea him but they said no. You can to " said Thomas an 18-year-old who wants to follow his lather s career path into the German air Force they said. It s better for you in you Don t see him " several months later Christa Hauck called a priest Lor help in dealing with her grief. He referred her to a doctor in Kaiserslautern who later introduced her to survivors of other Ramstein victims. The first time she met with other survivors. 29 showed up. Forty live Are expected to attend a three Day gathering in the Maria Rosenberg cloister near Kaiserslautern. The organizer is Harl mul Jazko a local doctor specializing in psychosomatic illness and internal Medicine. It is a big family Hauck explained As she showed visitors magazines filled with photos of her new friends and their deceased or crippled loved ones it helps to talk with them about a Chain smoker who fidgets when she sits Down to talk Hauck has received medication to Calm her nerves every week since the Accident she is a redhead now. But pictures taken on flu tag 1988 show a blonde with lower facial lines. The changes in her life have been More than cosmetic the apartment she shares with her 18-year old son is smaller and less expensive than the Home they lived in before her husband a senior master sergeant died. She baby sits to supplement the 1,600 Marks or roughly $800. She receives each month from Tho government because of her husband s lengthy military service. Life in expensive she said but her plans Are vague i Don t she said lighting another cigarette. I have lost a part of enter a hero ii a heroic figure emerged during the Ramstein disaster in was air Force sgt. Jell Mccanch. Newspapers and magazines around the world carried photos of Mccanch racing into a fiery area to Rescue his then 2-year-old son . Mccanch his Wile Tammy and their son wore injured and All town to Brooke army medical Center in Texas. Tie Young explosive ordnance disposal specialist then received a humanitarian reassignment to Lackland fab at san Antonio so the family could stay together while . Continued to be treated Lor his Burns. Today Ujj is doing really Good said his 24-year-old to still goes to physical therapy and plastic surgery Lor checkups he still does not have the full motion of his left hand but he s not looking Loo bad tit i looking belter All the time " a new baby named Tyler Jason joined the Mccanch m May a j loves him sometimes he s too so Many things go through your head. I was mad at first. Then you think about what you saw and afterwards you think about All the people who got killed and injured. And then you think Why did it have to happen " Karl Heilig Page 14 the stars and stripes sunday aug
