European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars stripes sunday August 26, 1990 going out in style a Doug Labant checks his Auto dealer pa., ordered the special Send off for a ship s Handiwork on a casket custom Mercedes Loving Man who was buried sized with key features of a Mercedes Friday. Labant s car Dealership is Loben automobile. A family in Linwood rated in upper Darby a. Leland crash probe finds Pilot error Likely Washington a the plane crash in Ethiopia that killed rep. Mickey Leland a Texas 15 others last year probably was caused by Pilot error an ethiopian govern ment investigation found. The ethiopian civil aviation authority said the Pilot May have Felt pressured to Fly in bad weather be cause of the importance of the mis the report was released Friday by the National transportation safety Board which assisted in the investigation. A Canadian safety expert also participated because the plane was built in Canada. Leland who was chairman of the House select committee on hunger was flying from the ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa to fug Nido a refugee Camp on the sudanese Border to in Spect Relief efforts. Three congressional staffers were also killed in the crash. The plane ran into a Mountainside More than an hour after Takeoff on aug. 7, 1989 the crash destroyed an emergency transmitter on the plane that could have helped rescuers. The wreckage was t found for a week. The Accident was most probably due to Pilot error in that by pushing too far flying into an area of bad weather at very Low Altitude the flight Crew May have failed to maintain vis Ual Contact with the ground in College students discover ruins of ancient Indian Village in Colo. Knowingly collided with a Mountain the report said. The report said the plane a 1980 twin Otter had no defects investigators faulted the Pilot flight Crew for not properly studying the weather along the route. The report said the flight schedule was tight considering the weather. The trip s organizers Leland the flight Crew had discussed possible weather delays the report said. The Long delay on the one hand the importance of the Mission on the other May have created undue pressure uneasiness on the flight Crew i said. The intended route was Cloudy Rainy. The plane was plotted to Fly at 12,500 feet the Pilot acknowledged reaching that Altitude shortly after Takeoff. But witnesses who saw the plane just before it crashed told authorities it was flying below the Clouds at a Low Alti tude. The plane burned after crashing into a Boulder 800 feet below the sum Mit of a Mountain. The report said investigators could not determine whether the Pilot or co Pilot was flying the plane when it crashed. Leland was making his second trip to the Border Region to focus attention on the hunger suffered by sudanese who had lost their Homes during the civil War. Stateside Dove Creek Colo. A two College students have stumbled upon the virtually untouched ruins of a 1,100-year-old anasazi Indian Village in southwestern col Orado. The six acre Mountain sheep Village the name Given the site probably had about 200 structures May have housed i504tq 200 indians As Early As the year . 850, said Kristic Arrington an archaeologist for the Bureau of land management the Agency that controls the discovery site. The find is significant because the site is on the North Side of the Dolores River which wraps around Iton three sides. Previously anasazi ruins have been found Only South of the River. The Anasa i or ancient ones lived in the four Corners area. Their Best known ruins Are the Cliff dwellings in Mesa verde National Park in Southwest Ern Colorado. The site discovered earlier this monthly the University of Colorado students Dave Mer not Chris Kun Awa is about 60 Miles Northwest of Mesa verde not far from the Utah Border. Pottery fragments recovered at the site Date it about 300 years before the height of Mesa verde Cliff dwellings. Arrington said the people of Mountain sheep Vil Lage May have traded big game Timber with other villages in Exchange for food pottery. She said tools associated with game Hunting processing such As arrowheads scrapers knives have been found on the ground. Local people Hunting May have been through there one area shows evidence that it had been potted Little bit Arrington said. But it s fairly unusual that it had t been recorded documented before potting is a term used to describe the illegal digging for Indian pots. Merritt Kuzawa Are working out of the Dolores Canyon research Center on a Federal archaeology project this summer. The project involves tracking Deser Bighorn sheep River otters conducting an inventory of water invertebrates in the River probing historic mining Sites. The two were tracking Bighorn sheep when the discovered the ruins. We were just hiking around we found it Mer Ritt said. We were just climbing up following bits of ceramics lithic Flint which were at the base of the Cliffs where they should t they struggled Over the rim of a Cliff found Mounds vertical slabs of Sandstone sticking ou4 of the ground. The slabs Are the foundations of structures made of poles Brush Adobe. It was pretty spectacular Kuzawa said of the site which backs up to a Forest of Ponderosa Pine. Once we realized what it was we started to look around. We stayed until dusk. We knew we were onto something pretty unofficial 11 state census released Washington a Hawaii Nevada have lopped the i million population Mark the census Bureau reported Friday in issuing preliminary 1990counts Lor 11 states. While 10 of the states showed population gains Ohio recorded a decline from the 1980 National head count. Officials stressed that the reports Are preliminary. I hey Are designed to give local officials a Chance to raise questions if they find areas where they believe people have been missed or Over counted. The final official census counts Are scheduled for release on dec. 31. Friday s report brings to 40 the number of states for which preliminary counts have been published. Theresa Are expected in the next week or two. Newly released state counts the census count in1980 Are Alaska 545,774, up from 402,000. Arizona 3,619,064, up from 2,718,000. Colorado 3,272,460, up from 2,890,000. Hawaii 1,095,237, up from 965,000. Kansas 2,467,845, up from 2,364,000. Maryland 4,732,934, up from 4,217,000. Nevada 1,193,287, up from 800,000. North Carolina 6,552,927, up from 5,882,000. Ohio 10,777,514, Down from 10,798,000. Virginia 6,127,680, up from 5,347,000. Washington 4,826,675, up from 4,132,000. Changing trends in cancer observed Over 20 years Washington up cancer death rates Nave shifted dramatically worldwide in 20 years with lung arts stomach cancer killing less people but breast brain cancer claiming More re searchers have reported. The exact cause of the global trends Are unknown. But researchers speculated there could be a variety of explanations including changes in diet smoking Levels of cancer causing sub stances in the environment uses of Radia Tion. New Wing design coi fld Cut Jet fuel costs Nasa says Washington a tests show that air lines could save hundreds of millions of dollars in fuel costs with a new Wing design that reduces air drag Nasa says. A joint government Industry flight test pro Gram produced results that were much better than expected said officials of the National aeronautics space administration. The tests were conducted for five months on a Boeing 757 on which a 22-foot Wing Section had been replaced with a surface designed to smooth the air flow the space Agency said. If the modification had been made along the entire wingspan on both sides drag would have been reduced by 10 percent the space Agency said. Each percent of drag eliminated by the . Transport Fleet would result in a fuel savings of $100 million for the Industry Nasa said. The modified Wing Section includes millions of tiny laser drilled holes in a titanium skin Cov ered by a Flap along the leading Edge to shield against insects dirt during takeoffs land Ings. The holes create a suction effect that diverts turbulent air from the surface of the Wing allows a smoother air flow
