European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 4 the stars and stripes tuesday september 13,1994 recover engine Pittsburgh apr a Federal invest tors have found three us air ids right engine gators have found three parts of a crashed r jets right engine that could indicate it was thrown into reverse while in flight. A flight Crew reported problems with the engines reverse thrust 2vi months ago. Aviation experts pilots and National transportation safety Board member Carl Vogt said that reversing engine thrust while a plane is airborne would be catastrophic. But Vogt said sunday that it is too Early to draw conclusions from the parts recovered from a burned out Ravine. A speculating about anything is very premature a Vogt said at a news conference sunday night. A a we re not entering our investigation anywhere.�?�. On monday hundreds of people filled a Square in downtown Pittsburgh and poured into adjoining streets for a noon memorial service for the 132 crash victims. A the sudden Downing of an air plane has touched us All a said Paul m. Kelly of the salvation army of Western Pennsylvania. Survivors of the victims sat in the first few rows Many of them crying As a priest read the names of the dead. Marina Raykin of suburban Monroeville came to the service to remember her husband Eugene. She said it was a change from sitting at Home waiting for Calls from us air about efforts to recover his hoped to begin moving wreckage monday from the crash site to a nearby hangar where they will try to reassemble parts of the plane. At the site workers began washing pieces of the air plane with soap and bleach As a disinfectant in Case the wreckage was splattered with blood that could transmit disease to recovery workers. A we think that when we lift the aircraft parts Well find More bodies a said Allegheny county fire marshal John Kaus. About 85 percent of the remains have been removed and it will probably take a couple of Days to Complete the Job Kaus said. / a a. The Boeing 737-300 nose dived thursday night into a wooded area six Miles Short of Pittsburgh International Airport killing All 132 people inboard a investigators have recovered eight of the planets 12 thrust reversal actuators which control the thrust revers cars. A parishioner leads the congregation at the Westminster pres Day service. The Church was attended by the five member Wear by Tyrian Church in upper St. Clair pa., in prayer during a Sun or family who died in thursday s crash. It three of the actuators from the jets right engine a including two recovered sunday a were in the deployed position it Wasny to Clear whether they were knocked into that position when the plane hit the ground at More than 300 Mph. A fourth actuator from the right engine was not deployed. All four actuators recovered from the left engine were in the proper position. A thrust reverser is a device on the Back of a Jet engine that changes the direction of the thrust that propels air planes. During landings the reverser is closed across the rear of the engine so the hot exhaust is deflected Forward to counteract the air planet a Forward motion. Passengers can hear the process As a loud Roar from the engines. Quot a. A a. A a a a a the thrust reverser could flip the plane Over in a heartbeat a said a Veteran Pilot from american airlines who spoke on the condition of anonymity. A at that Point you re not even dealing with an air plane. You re dealing with something falling out the John Nance an air safety analyst in Seattle and 20-year commercial airline Pilot cautioned that a this Impact was so horrendous and the scattered parts so thoroughly hashed up that no conclusion right now no matter How obvious it might seem can be relied the airline ran a full Page letter of sympathy to victims relatives and friends in mondays edition of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. The airline also thanked hundreds of emergency workers at the crash s drowning ruled an Accident by the stars and stripes the death of a senior airman from the air Force special operations come at Raf Alconbury England has been determined to be an Accident. Senior airman Michael r. Miller jr., 22, an aircraft maintenance specialist with the 7th special operations so at Raf Alconbury accidentally drowned according to an autopsy. His body was recovered from the River vah near Rencin Slovakia. According to an Raf Alconbury spokeswoman Miller was alone and off duty at Fate time of the Accident. An investigation is ongoing Miller had last been seen at about 1 45 . Local time on aug. 23. After being notified of his disappearance later that afternoon slovak police and military forces began searching for the missing airman. Slovak Media assisted in the Effort showing his photograph on television and giving news bulletins in newspapers and Over the radio. The 7th sos was in Slovakia taking part in an unclassified training exercise involving joint . Army and air Force elements ind the slovak military. N. Korea turning Over . Remains Panmunjom North Korea a North. Korea seeking improved ties with the United states is handing Over 14 coffins today that it claims contain the remains of american soldiers killed in the korean War. The Exchange comes As the two longtime enemies move to improve ties in the midst of the Long standing dispute Over the communist North a nuclear program. Last weekend five . Diplomats visited the North a capital Pyongyang for the first time and began talks on exchanging Liaison offices the first step toward normalizing relations. Simultaneous talks Are under Way in Berlin on replacing the North sold fashioned nuclear Sites with technology less adaptable to weapons development. The United states has said resolving nuclear tension is essential to improving ties with the North with which it has no formal relations. Another condition is the return of american War the North South Border Village of Panmunjom 36 Miles North of Seoul North korean soldiers Are to hand Over the 14 coffins to . Honor guards. . Officials say the remains will be sent to an army Laboratory in Hawaii for evaluation and identification. The Transfer will bring to 208 the total a number of sets of remains returned by North Korea since 1990. . Officials say Only one set of remains has been positively identified. Most Are badly damaged with Many of the skulls missing their facial Bones. Some of the Bones have been found to belong to animals. About 8,140 american service members Are listed by the . Government As unaccounted for from the 1950-53 korean War. That includes 866 bodies that were returned in 1954 but were never identified. Those bodies were buried in Hawaii. Orange Calif. A Nicole Brown Simpsons children were placed in the guardianship of her parents under terms of a petition approved monday by a judge. . Simpson did no to contest the arrangement which makes his former inlays Louis h. Brown and Juditha Brown Legal custodians of the children. Simpson is scheduled to go on trial sept. 26 in the murder of his sex wife and her Friend Ronald Goldman. Sydney Brooke Simpson 8, and Justin Ryan Simpson 6, have been staying with the Browns at their Seaside Home in Dana Point since the june 12 slayings. Turned Over to grandparents on aug. 31, Simpson filed court papers agreeing to the Browns guardianship until he is released from jail. The change was routinely approved by Orange county Superior court judge John c. Woolley at a a Calendar clearings session of uncontested cases monday morning. Neither Simpson the Browns or the children were at the hearing. Simpson also has two grown children by his first wife. Meanwhile los Angeles county District attorney Gil Garcetti was questioned monday about his offices decision not to seek the death penalty for Simp son. A i certainly understand the feelings Many people have concerning our decision a he said at a news conference announcing the creation of a real estate fraud unit. A but whatever decision i made there was going to be a firestorm of he said he would not discuss the factors that went into the decision until the trial is concluded. A a everyone understood this was a Nowin situation for this office no matter what the decision was a he said. A we arrived at the decision we thought was just and ,
