European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 30, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7 9 airmen killed in c-130 crash High drama Derby Scott 19, of Toledo Ohio swings from a girder on the Anthony Wayne Bridge. Scott walked around on the 200-foot-High girders for 45 minutes monday and threatened to jump before police were Able to talk him Down. The Bridge spans the Maumee River. Lilesville . A a military transport plane on a training Mission crashed into a Lake tuesday night killing All nine people aboard the air Force said. Witnesses said the c-130 Hercules circled Blewett Falls Lake about 15 minutes before rolling Over and plunging sideways into the water said sheriff Tommy Allen. The weather was Cloudy. It was the second fatal crash in less than three months involving the military a Workhorse transport. A Kentucky National guard c-130 crashed on a training Mission near Evansville ind., in february killing 16 people. In tuesdays crash All nine Crew members were killed said tech. Sgt. Edward Drohan a spokesman at Pope fab near Fayetteville where the plane was based. The base is about 40 Miles cast of the crash site. The cause of the crash was not immediately known Drohan said. Allen said one body was recovered before diving was halted because of darkness and the planets location in 20 feet of water. The search was to resume wednesday. A the plane has broken up into several pieces a a Allen said. A some of it s buried in the mud. The Tail Section is sticking up out of the  Allen said the plane leaked fuel into the Lake preventing divers from going in immediately. Trucks arrived with absorbent materials late tuesday to sop up the fuel. The Lake in South Central North Carolina is about 50 Miles Southeast of Charlotte. The c-130 is a Large mid Range aircraft often used to ferry troops or heavy equipment. On feb. 6, a c-130 crashed into a Motel and restaurant Complex in Indiana killing All five Crew members and 11 people on the ground. The air Force did not release the cause of the crash but an Indiana congressman who was briefed on the Accident said human error was apparently to blame. F-22 program Stih on track despite crash Lockheed says los Angeles up the chairman of Lockheed corp. Said tuesday the weekend crash that destroyed the advanced tactical fighter f-22 prototype will not Hurt the program to build the next generation of fighter planes. U a we do not see the crash As a setback a said Daniel Tellep at Lockheed a annual meeting in los Angeles. A the f-22 program is on  Lockheed the Lead contractor in a team that includes Boeing co. And general dynamics corp., won a $9.5 billion development contract for the at last year Over a team of Northrop corp. And Mcdonnell Douglas. The air Force wants to buy More than 600 of the planes which have an estimated Price tag of about $147 million each. An unidentified problem forced the prototype to touch Down without its Landing gear when it made a routine approach Over the main runway at Edwards fab in the Mojave desert. The Pilot was forced to crash land and escaped with minor injuries. Tellep said the prototype had completed More than 90 percent of its scheduled tests. The plane is designed to cruise at supersonic speeds without afterburners elude radar and travel at twice the Speed of sound. The development phase is expected to be completed in 1995. Aerospace analyst John Simon of Seidler a dec securities in los Angeles agreed with Tellep a assessment. A a it a not surprising that a prototype would crash a he said. A a that a Why you build  Simon noted that when Mcdonnell Douglas was developing the f-15 fighter two decades ago its prototype also crashed. The f-15 program became quite successful and the plane is still in production. A unless there were an enormous series of crashes the f-22 program would not be in any danger a he said. Worn part blamed in plane crash from wire reports Washington a the failure of a severely worn part in a propeller control system was blamed tuesday for last years commuter plane crash that killed former sen. John Tower a Texas and 22 others. The National transportation safety Board said the parts failure made the aircraft uncontrollable. Atlantic Southeast airlines flight 2311, a two engine Embrer Ems 120 built in Brazil crashed on april 5, 1991, while approaching the Lynco Jetport at Brunswick ga., at a height of 2,300 feet. The dead included Tower his daughter Marian and astronaut Manley Lanier a a Sonny Carter. The safety Board said the Crew could have done nothing to prevent the crash. While the Board ruled that the malfunction of the propeller control system on the left Wing engine was the probable cause of the crash it also faulted Hamilton Standard the manufacturer and the Federal aviation administration. The safety Board said Hamilton standards propel Ler control system design was deficient in that it did not anticipate the kind of failure that occurred in the crash. The Board said the Faass approval of the design also contributed to the Accident. Acting Board chairman Susan Coughlin said the problem has been corrected in aircraft with similar pro peller control systems. A spokesman for Hamilton Standard said the company a division of United technologies could not comment because it is being sued for damages by Tower s estate and the estates of other victims. In a separate Accident Board documents showed that the person flying a cargo plane that crashed in february and killed All four people aboard was unable to wrestle the aircraft out of its doomed descent. The Board issued 381 pages of reports in its probe thus far into the feb. 15 crash of Burlington air express dc-8 sri 63 Jet near Toledo express Airport in Ohio. The Mcdonnell Douglas plane was owned by Carolease and was being operated by air transport International of Little Rock ark., for the cargo company Bur Tower Lington air express. The Nosb released a transcript of the communication Between the planets Crew and air traffic controllers at the Airport. A a what a the. The matter Here a Baker said. A Harry a someone said. A you got it Quot the Pilot said. A i got it a a Crew member . A pull up a another Crew member said. A up up up up a the Pilot said. A i can to came the reply. A up up a the Pilot said. Then the first sounds of Impact were recorded the Board said. Capt. Harry a pull  Cross issues plea for disaster funds from wire reports Washington i he american red Cross mired in a serious financial trouble because of a record number of natural disasters is pleading for $30 million. Red Cross president Elizabeth Dole said tuesday the financial shortfall facing the Agency threatens its 110-year-old disaster Relief program which gives food shelter Medicine and other Aid to disaster  crashes new York a a car ran onto a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk at the height of Rush hour tuesday and injured nine people one seriously As it crashed through a store window. The Driver Jose Rodriguez did no to know How to drive but obliged when a traffic Warden asked him to move the car which was stopped outside a music store near times Square said Johnny Javier Rodriguez a Nephew. Javier 33, said his 69-year-old Uncle had been waiting in the passenger seat of the car while Javier shopped inside the  recovered Stanford Calif. A a former school Security guard has been arrested alter american Indian artefacts and some 200 rare books stolen since the mid-1970s were found on display. Thu artefacts were found in the Gilroy Home of Stephen Crawford police said. Among the Van full of items recovered were Indian sculptures books dating As far Back As the 14th Century jewelry and two whalebone swords. Crawford 46,  be reached for comment. His number is  wins slur removal fort Lauderdale Fla. The Broward county elections office is going to change the abbreviation it uses on voter registration cards for people born in Japan because a Japan native says its a world War ii Era slur a Jap. George Goda 45, born to a japanese father and Irish american Mother moved from Japan to the United states when he was 12 and says he still associates painful memories with the word. Of 258 county voters who list their Birthplace As Japan Goda has lodged the Only complaint about the abbreviation said Jane Carroll county supervisor of elections. But she said she would see that the abbreviation is changed to Jpn