European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside strikes d military should Heads a ombudsman says Page 2 d cocaine trafficker s estate seized in Pennsylvania Page 4 d Harris Lambert voted into Hall of Fame sports Page 25 d Quayle meets latin Heads of state in Honduras Back Page authorize of unofficial publication Fox the u Ahmed forces vol. 48, no. 287 monday. January 29, .1990 fad by and sunday d oo9o a colombian Jet Cras Hect with no engine Power Cove neck. . A investigators confirmed saturday that none of us four engines was running when Avi Anca flight 52 crashed into a Hillside thursday night killing 73 people of the 159 people aboard it. The National transportation safely Board had reported earlier that three of inc four engines were not running. The fourth was dug out of the mud by work ers saturday and investigators deter mined that it. Loo. Had shut Down be fore Impact. We did a Quick cursory inspection and there was no Power on these engines when the Accident did occur Nosb spokesman Lee Dickinson said. Fie spoke at a briefing at he wooded Accident sue. Where investigators painstakingly examined inc wreckage focus ing especially on the broken plane s fuel tanks lines and gauges. Investigators determined the engines were nol rotating because debris inside them had nol been chewed up. He said. Fan Blades in the engine did nol show damage thai would have indicated a working engine he added. Residents in the affluent Long Island North Shore neighbourhood reported thai the plane made no sound until it hit the Trees thursday night. The Crew had radioed thai it was Low on fuel shortly before the crash and there was no explosion upon Impact. The absence of an explosion saved lives authorities said. Mosi of the sift survivors remained Hosp Ili cd sat urday Al least 29 of them in critical condition. Officials had originally re ported 89 survivors. The plane had aborted us first land ing at John f. Kennedy International Airport when an automatic warning def vice in the cockpit said it was dropping too fast and at the wrong Angle. Am Flag see crash on Back Page investigators Cut through debris hanging from a Section of Wing saturday As they search for clues in the crash of Ai Ianca flight 52, a Bueng 707. Job freeze solid but May thaw by Rosemary Sawyer staff writer the civilian hiring freeze May thaw a bit when the defense department feels its Ming but until then the army in Europe is bracing for round times a tap personnel official said. For 25 years whenever we be had freezes there s always been some areas of slush that you can sort of wander around in and make some Independent decisions said Archie Grimmett chief of usar eur s civilian personnel division. Here when they said fro in they really meant deep freeze he said. Usa eur expects to be hit especially hard because of the revolving door nature of overseas hiring especially in commissaries and child care centers. Family members fill about 29,0011 of 100,000 civilian jobs in the command. Family member hires hate a 48 percent Job turnover Rale primarily because they regularly quit to follow their scr vice member or civilian spouses Grimmett said. The people in he department of the army really understand the effect of this thing in Europe and they re on our Side us far As re questing what needs to be requested to continue to do our work grim i to said. But the Secretary of de sense when he put this free a on. Made it total and it s obvious hut he meant what he in All Usa eur fills about 40,000 local National appropriated see freeze on Back Page see Light or Eastern . Washington a thousands of people in the Eastern United Stales reported seeing a strange blueish Green Light in the sky saturday night which some experts said could have been an a unusually Large meteorite. We arc quite confident it was nol a Man made object said maj Dick Adam Public affairs officer for the North american aerospace defense come Norad in Colo ado Springs Colo. We have no idea what it Gribbl of the National ufos reporting Center in Seattle a private group reported receiving do ens of Calls. Based on descriptions thai have been Given. I d say we re dealing will a very Large solid a very Large said scribble. Descriptions run from a Blue Green to a Bright Green coming Down in an angular descent leaving a Short Tail behind said Gribble. Among inc people who reported seeing the David Arnold an area air traffic control supervisor Al Dulles Airport where the sighting occurred Al 1 10 p.m.?-, we Don t know exactly what it was. A meteor or � said Arnold who has been an air traffic control Ler for 25 years. It lasted 25 to 30 seconds and went from Brilliant while to Orange As it broke up. We be seen things like this before but much higher. This was quite Brilliant. Ii appeared to have dissipated however not All witnesses saw the object change color and appear to disappear. A television reporter in Oak Hill w.va., one of the places where there was a flurry of initial sightings was at he Home of one of the firs witnesses nearly three hours after the initial sighting and reported the Light was still hovering in the sky. Kilty Harrison assignment editor Lor Way to in Oak Hill said what she saw was absolutely not a mete orik1. I be seen meteorites before and this does t resemble the Type of meteorite i be she told the Asso Zialci i Russ in a Telephone interview from the Home of Eli Abele Gray and her son. Chris what we arc seeing is a very Bright bluish White object. Thai appears to be moving downward toward the Hort on in an erratic spiralling Harrison said. It is very Jow. You have to keep your Eye fixed to something stationary in order to see ils sightings were reported from West Virginia and from Virtonia to new York. Norad s Adam said the air Force was gelling Calls from us of Hose areas. Act annoy correlate the sighting Wilh any of the information of the objects we Are tracking in space said Adam. Anc arc tracking approximately 6.800 objects. Our misses is to keep track of what s in space. Whatever it was. It was t one of the objects we re
