Wednesday, September 3, 1986
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Daily Nebraskan
By the Associated Press
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300 feared dead in Soviet ship sinking
MOSCOW A tourist packed Soviet
cruise ship, rammed and torn open by a
freight er, sank so fast that t here was no
time to deploy lifeboats and more than
MO people are feared dead, a maritime
official said Tuesday.
Deputy Merchant Marine Minister
Leonid P. Nedyak told a news confer
ence that rescue boats plucked 836
survivors from the Black Sea, most of
them clinging to rafts that floated free
when the liner Admiral Nakhimov
plunged to the bottom at about mid
night Sunday.
There were 1,234 people aboard,
according to official reports.
Nedyak said 79 bodies were recovered
and that 319 people were still missing
two days after the collision.
"I hope and all of us hope that out of
the 319 missing persons there may be
some survivors," Nedyak said. But he
added: "I believe that most of these
passengers are still aboard the ship.
Until the divers do their work it will be
difficult to confirm this supposition."
He said the vessel rests on the bot
tom at a depth of 155 feet.
Nedyak said the information he had
indicated no bodies had been recov
Jet crash toll may reach 91;
heart attack unlikely as cause
CERRITOS, Calif. Up to 24 people
on the ground may have been killed
when a jetliner crashed into a residen
tial neighborhood after colliding with a
small plane whose pilot had just had a
heart attack, sources said Tuesday.
A top federal investigator said it was
unlikely a heart attack led to the colli
sion that killed the 67 people aboard
the planes.
"I'm skeptical that it was a factor,"
said John Lauber, the National Trans
portation Safety Board member in charge
of the investigation of Sunday's crash.
NTSB spokesman Ira Furman said
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ered since late Monday. He said 29 of
the survivors were hospitalized, but he
did not give their conditions.
He said the liner was rammed amid
ships on its starboard at 11:15 p.m.
Sunday by the Soviet freighter Pyotr
Vasyev. The collision occurred about
nine miles from the port of Novorossiysk.
Nedyak said officials believe the
cruise ship sank within 15 minutes.
"The blow came into the partition
between the engine room and the
boiler room, and practically speaking,
it ripped the ship open," Nedyak said.
"From the moment of the blow until
the moment of the sinking of the ship,
it was not possible to launch into water
any of the rescue boats." he said.
Nedyak said it was too soon to assign
blame. He said there was no fog at the
time of the collision.
He said about 50 vessels were con
tinuing search and rescue operations,
. along with helicopters and other aircraft.
There were no casualties among the
crew of the freighter, which was laden
with grain, Nedyak said.
The 888 cruise ship passengers were
all Soviet tourists, mostly from the
key remaining questions include why
the single-engine Piper was in restricted
airspace used by planes approaching
and leaving Los Angeles International
Airport, and why it was not seen by the
crew of the Aeromexico DC-9 or the air
traffic controller at the airport.
The confirmed dead included 58
passengers and six crew members
aboard the jet and the three people in
the small plane. Numbers from various
sources indicated that up to 24 others
on the ground also died, which could
bring the death toll to 91.
Garry Oversby, of the Los Angeles
Ukraine and Baltic republics, he said.
He said about 270 of the 346 crew
members were among the survivors.
Nedyak said he was not sure how
many children were aboard. He said
five of those rescued and two found
dead were children.
Nedyak said that among the survi
vors of the Admiral Nakhimov was the
captain, Vadim G. Markov, who had
skippered the ship since 1959. He iden
tified the captain of the freighter as
Viktor I. Tkachenko.
Lloyd's Registry of Ships says the
Admiral Nakhimov was 575 feet long
and was built in Germany in 1925 as a
steam-powered vessel. It was later re
fitted with diesel engines.
According to the reference book
"Great Passenger Ships of the World,
Vol. 3," it struck a Soviet mine on Feb.
1, 1945, and sank near the Baltic port of
Swinemunde. The book provided no
figures on loss of life in that sinking.
The vessel was raised by the Soviets
in 1949 and rebuilt.
Nedyak said that, despite its age,
the ship was "in good working condition."
County Fire Department, said a man
and two of his teen-age children died in
one house, while 15 partygoers died in
another house. One woman was believed
killed in her home, her son said Mon
day. Five other people, believed to be
residents or visitors to another house,
also were killed, the Orange County
Register said Tuesday, citing unidenti
fied sheriffs and coroner's officials.
The Piper pilot was identified as
William Kramer, a Ranch Palos Verdes
resident who had been flying his wife
and daughter from Torrance to the Big
Bear mountain resort for the Labor Day
weekend.
An autopsy by the Los Angeles County
coroner's office found that Kramer died
of injuries from the crash, not from a
heart attack that occurred minutes
before the collision. Lauber said Kra
mer's heart tissue would be sent to the
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
near Washington to confirm the heart
attack.
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