European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 19,1993 the stars and stripes pages Jef aborts Landing in close scrape Chicago a Continental airline jetliner with 88 people aboard came so close to Landing without its wheels Down that its belly scraped the runway Federal investigators said wednesday. An Accident at o Hare International Airport was averted monday afternoon Only because a Pilot in another jetliner noticed that the plane standing gear was t Down. Continental flight 5148 from Houston the circled the Airport and landed with 81 Passen Gers and seven Crew members aboard. It was a potential disaster in the making said Michael Benson a spokesman for the National transportation safety Board in washing ton. The plane was a few feet off the ground when an american airlines Pilot flying behind the Boeing 727 noticed its wheels were not Down an radioed the control Tower. The Tower immediately ordered the Continental Jet to abort the Landing. The rear third of the plane s underside apparently scraped against the runway As the Pilot pulled up for another try. No one was Hurt but the Contact left holes inthe fuselage Benson said. Croatian copters violate no Fly zone Boorda says. M. ".  Naples Italy a ethnic croatian forces have increased their helicopter flights and nato officials Are considering whether to confront them with aircraft enforcing a no Fly zone in Bosnia a nato commander said thursday. The choppers have been dropping supplies to croatian ground units fighting bosnian muslims in Central Bosnia and Herzegovina said . Adm. Mike Boorda who commands Allied forces Southern Europe. Boorda would not say whether he would seek author Ity to attack the helicopters but suggested it was an option. There appears to be a change in the Way helicopters Are being used. I think that reflects the changing pattern of warfare. And we need to respond to that he told reporters visiting the Headquarters of the Allied forces Southern Europe. An order to attack which would require . Approval would Mark the first authorized use of Force since nato warplanes began enforcing a no Fly zone for military flights Over Bosnia in april. At the time the no Fly zone was meant to prevent military operations by serbian aircraft. If the croatian helicopters were to be challenged i could also mean the introduction of nato helicopters As part of the no Fly Mission since Jet fighters Wouldhave difficulty challenging slower moving choppers. Helicopters used by the warring factions have Vio lated the flight ban at least 250 times since april but have staged mostly humanitarian missions such As evacuations and ferrying food nato officials said. Boorda however confirmed that croatian Force shave increased helicopter flights in an apparent at tempt to Aid their fighters. It did not make sense for us to engage the helicopters before because the military significance was mini Mal said Boorda. That could be  earlier this week croatian forces began an offensive against the Muslim held town of Gorji a Kun which is on important routes for Aid convoys. . Peacekeepers near the town said they observed a croatian Heli copter in the air during the Battles. More than 200,000 people have been killed or Are missing in the civil War Between ethnic croatian Serbi an and Muslim led government forces since Bosnia broke away from Yugoslavia in february 1992. A killing cold begins to claim Bosnia s weak Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a month before the official Start of Winter frigid weather already is taking its toll among Bosnia s most vulnerable. Even As leaders of the warring factions signed an Accord in Geneva promising to let . Aid convoys pass unhindered the news from Bosnia where nearly 3 Mil lion people Are at risk this Winter was As Bleak As Ever . Officials said five patients died this week at an unheated mental Hospital near Sarajevo and other were wandering naked. Shots were fired at a . Aid Convoy in route Toto other mental hospitals in the War zone. One of Sarajevo s two main hospitals prepared to discharge about 100 patients and move 150 others to underground corridors warmed by Wood stoves because the buildings cannot be heated. A British based medical Relief group said it was halting crucial surgery for Sara Evans because patients were too cold and weak to withstand  has already gripped Bosnia said Cedric Thornberry the . S chief civil affairs officer for for Mer Yugoslavia. Everywhere we go the people Are hungry and need help. But everywhere we go the me with guns Are preventing that help being brought to them. I think it is a kind of madness. We Are now facing an impossible situation in bos Nia Herzegovina with an almost total strangulation fall humanitarian and logistic movement. The deaths of the five mental patients were reportedly . Military observers who reached a Hospital at Lazaric about 12 Miles West of  Wilkinson the . Relief spokesman in Sarajevo said the Hospital has no heat electricity or running water for its 389 surviving patients. Lazaric is controlled by the Muslim led bosnian government but Relief convoys must pass serbian territory to reach it. They often have been blocked by Serbia women demanding release of serbian War prisoners. In Sarajevo where temperatures hovered around freezing thursday officials at the unheated state Hospi Tal said they would move 150 patients into basement corridors and shut Down much of the rest of the four building Complex because of Gas and electricity Short  not preparing for or recovering from surgery will be discharged said or. Bakir Nakas the  said the Hospital had Only 15 quarts of fuel left to Power generators. He said the staff would Cut Dow several Majestic Trees on the Hospital grounds to fuel Wood  electricity and Gas a lot of people will die Ordinary people in town and especially people in the Hospital he said. The British based humanitarian Aid medical an development said cold and the weakened condition of patients forced it to suspend its surgical program at Testate Hospital. It had provided Sara Evans a Chance for elective an reconstructive surgery As local doctors increasingly limited themselves to lifesaving  Garvin director of the group s Sarajevo opera Tion said patients were so cold and malnourished that it was no longer Safe to operate on them even for sur Gery intended to avoid  said the leg of one Young Mother amputated wednesday probably could have been saved if reconstructive surgery had been performed earlier. As temperatures fell in recent weeks doctors notice Dan increase in postoperative infections he said. To perform elective surgery under these condition Sis life threatening Garvin said. In Zagreb Croatia Thornberry blamed All three warring factions for restricting and harassing Relief of  said a bosnian serbian Captain wednesday re fused to let a fuel Convoy pass to besieged Sarajevo which has not been supplied with any fuel for two  croats have closed main Supply routes into Central Bosnia. On wednesday they blocked Access Toto mental hospitals near Fornica where peacekeepers Are helping care for about 560 patients. A Convoy witha Generator and other supplies reached the hospitals thursday but Only after being fired on in Fornica peacekeeper spokesman cmdr. Ides Bald Van Biese Broeck said