European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page. 8 the stars and stripes saturday june 1, 1.991. Dan Chang Thailand up a fire in one engine May have touched. Off a fuel explosion a that blew apart ail aus Rian Airliner and killed All 223 people aboard senior austrian inspect tors said Friday. Quot. / investigators recovered i key engine control device from the wreckage that could add to the evidence that an engine problem rather than a bomb caused sunday nights crash of the Lauda air be ing 767-300. Quot a a a a i think a and other officials including the director of the aviation department agree a that the right engine caught fire and the heat from that lire caused fuel supplies in the Wing to explode Quot said air chief marshal Somboon Wahong governor of the Airport author Ity of i Hailand. The plane had just taken off on a nonstop flight from Bangkok to Vienna and was Laden with fuel. A a. Peter Blumauer an Interior ministry official heading the austrian team of investigators said he agreed the evidence pointed to an engine problem because. The right engine was nearly so percent destroyed by fire. The left Wing was rela. Lively undamaged. J. He said it appeared the Wing with the burning engine broke off sending the i and plunging to the ground. A a a Quot a Blumauer an intelligence specialist said there were no intelligence reports or Quot we done to Rule out a bomb Quot Blumauer said but indicated it was a More Likely an engine problem was to blame and that it should be reflected on the cockpit voice recorder that., tapes the co versa tons of the Crew. Somboon accompanied the investigators on an inspection of the crash site near Dan Chang 95 Miles Northwest of Bangkok. A a. A. /. The investigation team recovered one of the tvo electronic engine controls twin engine Boeing and determined the other was pinned under the. Engine. , director of the aviation department and Deputy Leader of the investigation said the engine controls were important the status of the engines at the time of the -. a. A a Srisuk however said Inesti gators evidence including readouts from the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder before their find Ings Are confirmed. ? he said the tvo recorders will be sent to Washington . To. Be decoded by the. National transportation safety a Board. A a a. A. Somboon speculated the. American ? Pilot Thomas Welch May have been too a a Quot Busy dealing with the fire and controlling the plane to make a radio report of mkt Quot trouble. T a. Rat Chon at Pic pan Deputy District Ofle i a Jujj from Dan Chang showed the investigators a document recovered from the Quot cockpit the Only Large part of the plane left intact with the word a fire Quot scrawled. Across it in English. A a a. A parisians steam As strike snails transit system Paris apr French tempers burned Short i riday As a transport strike paralysed Theta Pill s subway and bus system Tong thousands of parisians to March to work on loot i lie one Day strike by the Paris regional Lia Sporl authority fully closed 11 of the City a 13 metro lines by midday. Service was Cut Back 50-90 percent on the a others. 0 a a i Lordes of people packed bus slops at the place de la rep oblique one of the capitals transportation hubs and elsewhere but fewer than 40 percent of buses were running the authority reported. 1 he a Vair was Lavast rail line capital and its suburbs was completely shut Doi Yii. The Thiris Regit uial tra Sporl authority carries about 950,000 passengers daily. ,. V in the metro,.scuffles broke out when the rare train pulled up to a plat Lorri harried parisians late Lor work crammed aboard ears a at Kyo cursing the strikers and each w women suffered in High heels and men loosened their neckties As they walked Miles past neighbourhood stations barred shut looking Lor any line that was oper National. A. A a a Quot i he authority had warned that service Touhl he minimal Friday Biff Ninny parisians seemed surprised to Hind their neighbourhood tracs completely shut Down after trekking past four closed stations one gasping. Man paused for a co fee and cigarette at a Cal in the Belleville District muttering about bringing Back the. Guillotine. ,. A a you want revenge a a said the Barman. A buy a Kiev Cle. Everybody buy. A bicycle go on strike against the metro for a week you act healthier and. Liev get a a. A. But Lew bicyclists Friday risked the narrow streets choked with ears. Motorists motors and. Harried pedestrians overheated. / a. A a a. A. Y / a Why done to you take three people a a woman. Shouted at a shrugging taxi Driver stalled in traffic with Quot a single passenger. Quot this is ridiculous a others pleaded with private motorists to carry them to work. A one Day strike was called by a half dozen unions Quot representing ticket agents Low level managers train conductors bus Drivers and mechanics working for the regional authority. Quot a i hey have posted demands ring Mutroni better pay and retirement benefits to i pro Ltd Security alter a series if assaults against Drivers. Quot Fossil found in Tunnel run Cruncher a Pale oncologist at London s natural of a naut Luid a a a form of octopus a discovered Dur Ili Story museum examines a 95-nullion-year-old Fossil ing construction of the Channel Tunnel. Lisbon Portugal up1 a warring parties in Angola signed a peace treaty Friday Lii Glit aimed at ending their la year conflict and the United states said it would immediately Cut diff military Aid to rebel forces. The. Peace accords were signed at the portug tres ministry by angolan president Jose Eduardo Dos a Santos and rebel Leader Jonas Sav Imbi. . Secretary of stale James a. Baker ii i and soviet foreign minister Alexander in. Secretary general de Cucil lir and i Ortu Gusc officials a in cased the historic Momient that ended a conflict which devastated parts of the Southwest african nation. A. 2 ,. A. Under the peace treaty the soviet Union would also cease its military support to government forces. The. Agreement Calls for the disarming of 150,000 civil War Ngn sans and free multiparty elections set for the fall of 1992. A a Pihis is a Pivotal moment for the people of Angola a Pihi sing moment Southern Africa Quot Baker said Quot to a a. Mahi huh Lebanon a Terry Waite the anglican Church envoy who disappeared while trying to free Western hostages in Lebanon spent his fourth birthday in Captivity Waite who turned 52, was on his fifth Mission to negotiate with the fundamentalist shiite Muslim faction believed to hold american hostages when he eluded his Bod guards and vanished on Jan. 2 1, less. Ilis birthday passed with Little fanfare there was almost no hostage news in local newspapers or on the radio. In addition to Waite 12 other westerners arc missing in Lebanon a six americans three other britons twit germans and an italian. The Independent newspaper an in Chhai in an unattributed report said a British airways has informed. Lebanese officials that it a does hoi intend to use Beirut Airport again until British and other Western hostages held in Lebanon Are released a the report did not disclose further details. The Airport has been to vetted by Western airlines since june l is alter the commandeering by shiite radicals of a 1 a jetliner to the lebanese capita and the seizing of 29 passengers for 25 Days. A ? Quot. Some last european airlines have resumed services to Beirut Airport after president Elias Era win a government established control Over a militia free strip covering the capital and the hinterland overlooking it. A
