European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 a a the stars and stripes Friday August 31,1990survivor from Page 1 Hospital was capt. Bradley Schuldt assigned to the 7 h air div Ramstein a. Schuldt was badly burned Thad internal stomach injuries and a major lung injury Quot which ultimately i think limited what we could do for him Schoomaker said. Schuldt died about 5 . Of Galvan Schoomaker said a i will say that he. Having lost a Large number of friends and co workers. Is suffering a great Deal emotionally. He a expressed an interest to go Home with his Crew members. Air Force officials said thursday they did not know when the victims bodies would be returned to the United states. _ in a separate development the c-5as flight recorder was found late wednesday and sent to the United states for scrutiny by investigators. Investigators weren to the Only visitors at the crash site wednesday night. Amateur photographers and families with children and pets in Tow converged to Sec the wreckage. Parked cars and bicycles lined both sides of a four Lane Road outside the bases West Gate. John Lawther 19, witnessed the Accident on his Way Home to Lan Stuhl from work at the Ramstein officers open mess Early wednesday. He returned to the site that evening with his younger brother. A it flew past me when i was at the Gate. I could see its lights. It just looked like it was flying really Low a a said the student at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. Quot i lost it in the Trees and then i saw flames five times As High As the Trees. It was like someone lit a fuse. The whole sky was Orange. I had the window open but i had the radio on. When i drove by i could hear Little i stopped for a minute. But i thought there was no Hope. What was i to do a other onlookers commented on How the plane had crashed in possibly the amp Best possible location a near the Center of a Large Clearing that offered easy Access to emergency workers and investigators yet off the Road and away from developed areas. It also could easily be roped off to keep the curious away from the wreckage. In Light of the crash West German parliament member Rose Gutte repeated her Call for a ban on military flights during the shipment of chemical weapons from Clausen to Miessau and before the Railroad shipments of the nerve agents to a North sea port. Miessau is nearly eight Miles from Ramstein a. A it would be disastrous to think of what would have happened if the Galaxy had flown some More seconds a Guitte said. Air Force officials have emphasized that the c-5a�?Ts flight path would not have taken it Over the Miessau depot where the chemicals Are temporarily stored. The Crew members killed were maj. Richard w. Chase staff sgt. Daniel Garza maj. John m. Gordon master sgt. Rosendo Herrera teen. Sgt. Monty Knutson tech. Sgt. Daniel Perez maj. Richard Price staff sgt. Edward Sheffield senior master sgt. Carpio Villarreal. A passengers killed were staff sgt. Marc Cleyman Hahn a master sgt. Samuel Gardner Hahn a staff sgt. Rande Hulec Ramstein a and from Page 1 and his efforts to develop the capability to deliver a Uncle a bomb. Bush said he had a great respect for Lugar but he did not endorse the View that Saddam had to be deposed now no matter what happens with Kuwait in other developments a . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar heading for talks in Jordan with iraqis foreign minister said thursday he seeks to apply Security Council resolutions a not to negotiate what has been decided. A Turkey said thursday that it had rejected an iraqi request to resume food shipments for needy iraqi children saying it will adhere to the .-ordered embargo on Trade with Iraq. A in new York 36 expelled iraqi diplomats and their families left Early thursday on a plane for Jordan. Two westerners made it to safety in Jordan thursday one an american of Indian origin and a 17-year-old British girl of Arab extraction. They were among 185 evacuees who flew into Jordan aboard an iraqi airways flight. 9 the British broadcasting corp. Said a group of captive foreigners was paraded before the International press in Baghdad Iraq s capital it was for some of them a rather distressing experience _ children cried a great Deal and some of the women cried a correspondent John Simpson reported. C-5s, Ramstein by Deedee Arrington Doke Kaiserslautern Bureau Ramstein a West Germany a no single component or system on c-5 Galaxy aircraft flying in and out of Ramstein a is a causing us a headache the commander of the 608th military Airlift group said thursday. The Ramstein based unit oversees of maintenance and Aerial port operations for incoming and outbound military Airlift come aircraft such As the c-5 and the c-141 Star lifter transport planes. Col. James m. Murphy emphasized that he was speaking in general terms about the c-5 and not in relation to we base. Wednesdays c-5a crash just outside the a there Are things that Are breaking a Murphy mid a but. In any system As sophisticated As the c-5, components malfunction. But no specific component is driving us the increased amount of flying by the aircraft to support operation desert shield requires that they receive More frequent checkups although major maintenance work is usually done Only at the aircraft a Home base Murphy said. Hairline cracks such As those that have developed in the c-141 Fleet Are not Likely to occur on the c-5 because new wings have been installed. The a models More . Units from Stuttgart West Germany a several More . Units from Europe Are deploying to the persian Gulf to support operation desert shield the . European come and Pentagon said. A contingent of Security police personnel from the 47th tac missile Wing Comiso air station deployed from Sicily Early thursday morning. Air Force capt. Mike Kormanik said that because of Security reasons the destination and number of people could not be released. Fighting Falcon f-16 aircraft personnel and equip have received new wings since the mid-1980s. The b models were built with new improved wings Murphy said. A i done to anticipate anything like that showing up in the c-5,�?� Murphy said of the hairline cracks. Another potential problem in the operation is flight Crew weariness. A c-5 Pilot it. Col. Jack Gray said wednesday that the Load is nearly too much for Crews. A we have shaved the safety margin in some instances As narrow As it should be shaved a said Gray a member of the 709th military Airlift so reserves. Murphy said each flight commander must recognize Crew fatigue and manage around each Crews a weakest no one requesting More rest will be turned Down or pressured to accept another trip he said. A you simply can to do that because the Cost is too High both in human costs and material costs. Murphy said. A yes we give them less Crew rest. We have Given them less Crew rest. But when they ask for More they get in hectic periods since desert shield began Crews May get 10 hours of rest Between 18 and 24-hour Days and longer in special circumstances Murphy said. He noted that Airlift traffic in and out of Ramstein. For desert shield is less than that of some other air bases supporting the Middle East operation. A Ramstein is the safety valve a Murphy said. Ment from the 401st tac fighter Wing at Torrejon a Spain also Are deploying. The first elements left the base on wednesday said base spokesman tech. Sgt. Louis Arana Tarradas. The Pentagon said thursday that the planes deployed to Qatar in support of the operation. The 12th aviation brigade and 3rd army div in West Germany Are deploying Chinook Black Hawk Kiowa Apache and Huey helicopters associated personnel and equipment. Job go 0 1 j a Jap it cd it. Isol bnynn1 i i i o "0 1 i i ii c t rur or. Oooo Kathy from Page 1 Here a Whai he wrote. And those Are his exclamation Points. A hello sweetheart i love you a just a Little note to say Howdy and let you know in Mok. So now you know one of the spots 1 stopped at on my Way to this Little adventure. A How about getting engaged when 1 get Home in a serious and i la write More later. Take care a and then he wrote a i love you one More time and scratched his name across the Bottom. About then they were calling his flight Kathy. He did no to even have time to run to the Mailbox. He slapped a stamp on the postcard handed it to a woman working at the store where he bought it and asked her to mail it for him. Then he ran away. He was gone before the woman could Tell him that there was no address on the card. Just a simple eloquent message. And a question. Chris is probably in saudi Arabia now in the heat and the Sand. And when he looks up into the starry nighttime sky he probably thinks about How you reacted when you received his card. And he no doubt wonders what your answer will be. Kathy we think you should say yes
