European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 08, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes monday,.april 8, 1991 investigators from various agencies look for clues saturday in the densely wooded site of a Georgia Airliner crash. Veteran Pilot nearly new plane in Tower crash baffle probes from wire reports Brunswick Gay investigators sifting through debris at the heavily wooded crash site puzzled Over Why an almost new commuter plane with a highly experienced Pilot suddenly dived into the ground  23 aboard including former senator John g. Tower a Tex. A Susan m. Coughlin a member of the National transportation safety Board said there is no preliminary evidence that sabotage weather or an in flight breakup caused the Embrer Emb-120 Brasilia to crash the crash was the third major aviation mishap this year including that of a United airlines 737 at Colorado Springs colo., in which 25 died. A midair collision thursday Between a Small plane and a helicopter killed sen. John Heinz r-pa., and six others in Philadelphia. The accidents prompted transportation Secretary Samuel k. Skinner to Issue a statement saturday assuring travellers that aviation has become consistently safer and that commuter airlines a had their Best year on record in 1990.�?�probes described Pilot Mark Friedline of Atlanta As one of the worlds most experienced Embrer 120 pilots. He was the first . Pilot certified to Fly it and had a total of 13,000 hours flying All types of aircraft. Atlantic Southeast airlines flight 2311 from Atlanta to Brunswick was approaching the Brunswick Gay no Jetport at about 3 15 . Friday when witnesses said it dived almost straight into the wooded area about two Miles Southwest of the Airport. Although the cause was unknown the fire on the plane As it Dove into the ground a was clearly a fuel fire a said Coughlin and that the investigation would now focus on the planets engines. Witnesses reported hearing unusual noises she said adding investigators will be a particularly keen in looking at the damage to the  a probe of the wreckage showed the left engine was More damaged by fire than the right engine she said. The Embrer Emb-120 is a fuel efficient brazilian built twin engine Turboprop that the Federal aviation administration first certified for use in the United states on july 9, 1985. Atlantic Southeast was the pm Braer a first . Purchaser and As of last june had bought 37 of the $7.6 million draft and ordered another n. A a the 12-year-old airline operates a reported 300 flights a Day to More than two dozen cities in the South. Airline analyst Daniel a. Hersh told investors daily the airlines fuel efficient aircraft were one reason it was so profitable. Workers continued to bring out bodies saturday and by afternoon All but one of the dead had been identified. Among them were space shuttle astronaut Manley. Lanier a a Sonny Garter or. Of Houston and Nicholas Davies of Atlanta the president elect of the american College of physicians. Two victims were children. Funeral services for Tower and his daughter Marian 35, will be held monday in Dallas and president Bush was expected to attend a funeral Home said saturday. Marian Tower was a marketing representative for John Tower amp associates inc of Dallas said its president Larry  a. Apr dozens of parents brought their children to watch As investigators cleared away wreckage saturday from a plane helicopter collision that killed sen. John Heinz r-pa., four pilots and two children in a school playground. Matthew Katz 11, watched with his Mother As Federal officials sifted through wreckage inside a toned off Section of the school s playing Field. Before he left he tossed a few tulips Over the rope. Matthew was in fifth Grade math class when the plane crashed a few Yards from his classroom. A it was just like a red Ball of flames with Metal sticking out of it. 1 thought it was a bomb Quot he said. One of the girls who died Lauren n. Freundlich was in a Reading class that the fifth graders helped teach. Colette Katz said she thought it might help her son to bring him to the school because he had been frightened by the crash and did t want to go Back. A helicopter Rotor struck the right Wing of Heinz s air plane an instant before the collision according to investigation results. The main wreckage turned on Impact beside Merion elementary school. Federal officials completed their investigation at the school saturday afternoon said Brent n. Bahler a spokesman for the National transportation safety Board. Officials planned to resume classes monday. Besides the two children killed a third was critically burned. The helicopters pilots had offered to inspect the planets Landing gear after the planets pilots reported a cockpit Light indicated the gear had not property locked into place Bahler said. Among parts recovered were the planets Landing gear lock Down switch which will be Analysed in Washington he said. The instrument Light panel was burned investigators said. The lock Down switch is important to investigators because the planets Pilot had radioed Philadelphia International Airport that he could not Tell if the nose Landing gear was Down and locked in place. . Koop gets Tyler prize for anti smoking Effort from wire reports. Los Angeles a former surgeon general c. Everett Koop was honoured for his eight year anti smoking crusade that prompted thousands of people to give up the Hattit. The $150,000 Tyler prize is presented annually a by the University of Southern California to individuals who help improve environmental health and food sources. The award and Money were presented Friday to Koop and or. . Swaminathan to studied High yielding grains in India for 43 years. Koop led an anti smoking Campaign during his tenure As surgeon general from 1981 to 1989. He has referred to smoking As a the greatest killer and producer of premature deaths in the country. Actor Rich charged los Angeles a actor Adam Rich the youngest member of the Bradford clan in the television series a weight is enough a a was arrested saturday and charged with burglar izing a phar a Macy. A a a a. \ v a. A a Rich 22, was held on $5,000 bail police sgt. Ted Hanson said. The manager of the Park West pharmacy in the West Hills area said burglary appeared to be the motive for the pre Dawn shattering of a pharmacy window. No drugs were taken he said. Rich played the Tow headed Nicholas Bradford in the to series a weight is enough from 1977 to 1981. 57 arrested at concerts Atlanta a thousands turned out Lor three nights of concerts by the grateful dead but 57 of them ended up under arrest on drug charges Atlanta police said. Undercover narcotics officers dressed in garb. Popular during the 1960s to blend in with their Quarry also seized 4,856 doses or a a hits a of the drug Ltd 29 bags of hallucinogenic mushrooms 24 a a lids of marijuana a vial of crack cocaine and 18 cylinders of nitrous oxide. .-soviet race begins Nome Alaska eight adventurers took off by dog sled saturday from the Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome heading up the Bering sea coast in a 900-mile race that is to end in the soviet Union in about two weeks. It the weather was Clear a Little Breezy and 6 degrees As sled dog mushers hitched up their teams of 14 huskies and left from the front Street finish line of the id Tarod sled dog race in the first race across the .-soviet Border Ever held. About 400 people turned out to witness the event and cheer on the pioneering mushers from six countries. Nome still had plenty of Snow and the soviet Bering sea coastal area also was still buried deep in  persons 35, of Kotzebue Alaska one of two women in the race was the first to leave .Nome., a. A a the other woman in the race Mary Shields 47, of Fairbanks Alaska left Nome last. Leaving Nome Between the two women were Scott Cameron of Palmer Alaska Nikoli Bettyne of Neshan in the soviet far East Kazuo Kojima of Tokyo Frank Turner of Pelly crossing in Canadas Yukon territory norwegian retd Reitan and Peter Thomann of Switzerland. Shots weren t needed Morgantown . A a West Virginia University student whose measles symptoms prompted the immunization of about 2,000 per. Pie probably did no to have the disease a doctor said. A a a. Or. Ronald Cleavenger of the University health service said test results did no to confirm measles. Students faculty and staff members at the school were immunized in March after the unidentified male student sought treatment at the. Campus infirmary. The Cost of the immunizations was estimated at Quot several hundreds of thousands of dollars a. Said Edwin j. Morgan director of University health services. An exact Cost was not immediately available