European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 09, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse O Senate panel extends airline smoking ban pay j 2 d . Says Panama jamming broadcasts Page 8 military retirees talking Turkey Page 9 British hostage reported dead Page 28 the stars and stripes Good Momma vol 48. No 145 saturday. September 9, 1989 a d., i i 8693 a plane crash kills All 55 aboard Copenhagen. Denmark a a chartered plane carrying norwegian shipping company officials to a ship christening m West Germany crashed in these Friday killing All 55 people aboard Rescue officials twin engine con Vair 440 Turboprop plane belong ing to the norwegian airline i Art Nair was in route from Oslo. Norway to Hamburg. West Germany. It crashed in the Skagerrak Strait a heavily travelled shipping route that Borders Norway Denmark and officials said 32 bodies have been recovered and helicopters and about 30 vessels were searching the 55-Dcgrcc water for other Are no survivors. The plane disintegrated said Kurt Rasmussin. An official at the danish sea Rescue Center at Karup. On Denmark s Jutland Peninsula. We just found the main wheel floating and the nose Cone i be did not speculate on the cause of the crash. There is no Way of finding out the cause of the crash right now because we Haven t found the Black the plane s flight recorder said did not raise the possibility of sabotage. There were 50 passengers and a Crew of five aboard. According to a i Art Nair official in Oslo who spoke on condition of anonymity. An official of Wilhelmsen a norwegian shipping concern said the company had chartered the flight for a christening in Hamburg the norwegian news Agency reported. He was not identified by name. The plane which look off from Oslo s for Nobu air port was flying at 23,000 feel when air controllers at Copenhagen s Kastrup Airport lost Contact with it. Sweden s National news Agency to went Down 18v Miles North Oriler Sthals. On Den Mark s Northern coast. Is o. Norway 10 Namour Vesi i i Idun u i a Sivu n a. �. Of i a. Re i nt.,.i ilk .1the Skagerrak Strait a Hea ulv travelled shipping route that Cras Haven t Copenhagen s Kastrup a upor lost Contact a la it Borders Norway Denmark and Sweden. Bov. Nigh Sweden s National news Agency f reported. Rescue officials said 32 bodies have been recovered official it went Down 18v, Miles North Oril mahals. On Den and helicopters and t 0 vessels were searching ther Lovmark s Northern coast. Ira says Soldier s wife slain by mistake Dortmund. West Germany a " " the Irish Republican army said i it i he a pop a he shot and killed the West German Wile of a him this Lori Lii in 111,1 n Clit f that i he i Hrolf. West an Arm Rida t Kille t i British Soldier in the Mcmaken belief that she was a member of urn ish troops. Police said the 76-year-old woman identified As Heidi a Ell was riddled by More than a in bullets from a Kalashnikov automatic Rifle As she sat in the family car in a military housing area. The attack thursday night was the second at a British military installation in West Germany in a less than a week. In a statement released in Dublin ire land the Ira said an Ira Active service unit carried out last night s shooting in West. Ger Many. The woman killed was believed Mohave been a member of the British Crown forces garrisoned in Dortmund it has now emerged that she was the Ger Man wife of a British army staff sergeant. As we intend continuing our Campaign until the British army withdraws from Ireland the outcome of last night attack reinforces a warning we gave on aug. 2. 1988, for chileans to stay Well Clear of British military personnel. This warning applies to the use of vehicle personally belonging to British soldiers and All modes of military the mainly Catholic Ira is fighting to drive the British out of Northern Ireland. Last week it claimed responsibility Foran attack near Munster in which two British soldiers were seriously wounded. We arc up against the cowardly a see Ira on Back Page German police inspect Hie car in which Heidi a Ell wife of a British Soldier was shot dead in a error attack near Dortmund. Reagan faces surgery for brain fluid Rochester Minn. A former president Reagan entered a Hospital Friday and will undergo surgery this weekend to remove fluid on his brain apparently resulting from a horseback Riding Accident two months ago spokesmen said. The fluid was found during a routine examination atthe Mayo clinic said Mark Weinberg. A spokesman for the 78-year-old former president. Neither he nor clinic officials would give details of the surgery but a neurosurgeon not connected with Reagan s Case said that Type of operation would involve drilling at least one Hole in the Skull but was not considered serious. In a statement Weinberg said president Reagan was found to have a Small collection of fluid on top of the right Side of his brain. Physicians believe this is a direct result of president Reagan being thrown by a wild horse in july in Mexico. Although president Reagan has not experienced any symptoms physicians one advised this fluid Bere Mou in a routine procedure which will be per formed at St. Marys Hospital a a o foundation Hospital this Weinberg said. He added that Reagan s treatment is being managed by Mayo clinic doctors who said that he is otherwise in excellent health. Reagan s wife. Nancy who also underwent routine tests was found to be in excellent health. Weinberg said. Weinberg said he did not know what a the surgery would Lake place. Frank Lossi. Communications director at the clinic said he would not comment beyond Wemberg s statement. The reagans arrived in Minnesota on wednesday checked into the clinic thursday and left the clinic Friday morning. Later the former president left the Kahlor hotel near the clinic in a limousine without commenting on the surgery. He checked into St. Mary s a few minutes later said a Hospital spokeswoman who declined to be Ellen Landwehr a clinic spokeswoman said the facility would not announce the names of doctor who will perform the operation or what the surgery entails if the reagans decide to make that information available then we will Landwehr said. There maybe additional statements but at this time we arc Abid ing by their wishes and no additional information is available.". Henry brim a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins nine nifty Hospital in Baltimore said the surgery probably would be a fairly minor procedure patients usually beautifully in something said brim who will not be among doctors per see Reagan on Back Page
