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News Digest By The Associated Press I Plane problems persist ; , Black boxes pulled from Denver crash DENVER — Flight recorders pulled from the twisted remains of 1 a Continental Airlines DC-9 were 1 flown to Washington on Monday to determine what caused the jet to crash during a snowstorm, killing 26 people and injuring 56. The twin-engine plane was I taking off at Stapleton Intema I tional Airport Sunday afternoon when it flipped upside down and broke into three pieces as it slid down the runway three-quarters of ^ a mile. At least 10 survivors re mained hospitalized in critical condition Monday. It could be months before the cause of the crash is determined, authorities said. As many as 50 investigators may be involved in the next seven to 10 days, said Bob Johnson, chief of the National Transportation Safety Board of- j fice in Denver. It was the deadliest crash in the 58-year history of the airport. “There were like three separate explosions,” passenger Robert Linck said. “After the first explo sion, there was a ball of fire shot up through the seats in front of me, engulfing four people in front of me.” The plane’s two black boxes, containing cockpit voice and data recorders, were recovered “with no evidence of external damage,” said a spokesman in the NTSB office in Washington, D.C. The cockpit voice recorder will allow investigators to review ex changes between the crew in the Skies called less safe DETROIT — Airline pilots rate Continental Airlines along with Eastern as the least safety conscious carriers, a newspaper poll showed; and one Continen tal pilot said he feels pressured to fly unsafe planes. Continental and Eastern of ficials countered that their safety records are good and at tributed the pilots’ rating, in part, to labor problems resulting from their mergers with Texas Air Corp., the Detroit Free Press reported Monday. The pilots rated Delta, American and United as the most safety-conscious carriers, according to the poll. Nearly one in three airline pilots say the skies are less safe today than they were a decade ago, before airline deregulation increased competition and crowded airways, the poll showed. Most pilots still felt air travel was safe, the survey said, but more than half of the nation’s commercial pilots think airline performance has deteriorated since 1978, when Congress and the Carter administration elimi nated federal control over routes, schedules and passenger fares. seconds before the accident. Flight 1713 originated in Okla homa City, stopped in Denver and was delayed by a snowstorm. It wasen route to Boise, Idaho, when it crashed at 2; 16 p.m. MST. Hearing opens for Northwest disaster ROMULUS, Mich. — Wing flaps on a Northwest Airlines plane that crashed, killing 156 people, were in the proper takeoff position, but the jet took longer to get off the ground than expected, a witness testified Monday as hear ings into the crash opened. A federal investigator, how ever, said evidence compiled in the nation’s second-deadliest air disaster indicates the flaps were not extended in preparation for takecJ. The conflicting testimony cameon the first day of hearings by the National Transportation Safety Board into the Aug. 16 crash of Flight 255. The only sur vivor was 4-year-old Cecilia Cichan, whose parents and brother were among those killed. The hearing is scheduled to continue through the week, but the NTSB isn’t expected to issue a report for months. Douglas Allington, a first offi cer with Northwest now based in Memphis, Tcnn., testified that he thought the doomed airplane could have become airborne if it had not clipped a light pole in a rental-car parking lot. Other witnesses have told in vestigators the plane appeared to wobble to the left and right before its wings flattened out to a level position just after it lifted off from runway 3 Center at Detroit Metro politan Airport. “The flaps and slats were ex tended,” Allington testified. Summit may be postponed WASHINGTON — The United States and the Soviet Union will be faced with a “series of choices” in cluding postponement of the sched uled summit meeting if a treaty to ban intermediate-range nuclear missiles is not ready to be signed by the end of the month, a State Department offi cial said Monday. . With Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev due to arrive here Dec. 7, four treaty issues are not settled. These include safeguards against Soviet cheating as well as a Soviet proposal to follow the accord with negotiations apparently designed to impose restrictions on U.S. jet planes in Europe. Chief U.S. negotiator Max M. Kampelman is discussing these stick ing points in Geneva with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Yuli M. Vorontsov. The summit is only three weeks away. “It’s possible that the treaty won’t get finished unless there is Soviet willingness to face up to some is sues,” the official said. “Whether you decide to have the summit without the treaty, I don’t know. You might end up postponing it.” If the remaining issues are re solved, it will take U.S. and Soviet negotiators about another week to prepare and agree on treaty language. Gorbachev is due to arrive here Dec. 7 and hold talks with President Re agan Dec. 8-10. If the treaty is ready there appar ently is no question the summit will go ahead as scheduled. The main sticking point concerns U.S. demands for more information about Soviet medium-range missiles than Moscow so far has been willing to provide. Wright detends role m talks WASHINGTON — House I Speaker Jim Wright Monday accused the Reagan administration of treating Central Americans as “inferiors” and suggested that his involvement in regional peace efforts fills a vacuum left by Reagan’s effort to diplomati cally freeze out the leftist Nicaraguan government. The harsh talk followed a meeting between Wright, Reagan, Secretary' of State George P. Shultz and other top administration officials that failed to bridge differences over Wright’s personal involvement in the peace process. “Perhaps if they had an open door policy to people in Central America, those people would go lo sec them instead of coming to see me,” Wright said at a luncheon with reporters after the White House meeting. The Reagan administration “some times gives the unfortunate impres sion that it looks upon people in Cen tral America as inferiors, by scorning them, lecturing them, holding them up to public ridicule, refusing to see them,” he said. “I guess I’m just more egalitarian than they arc.” Nebraskan The Daily Nebraskan (USPS 144-080) is 1 published by ihe UNL Publications Board I Nebraska Union 34. 1400 R St, Lincoln. Neb I 68588-0448, weekdays during academic year I (except holidays), weekly during the summer j session. I Subscription price is S35 tor one year I Postmaster Send address changes to the 1 Daily Nebraskan. Nebraska Union 34, 1400 R m St.. Lincoln, Neb 68588 0448 Second-class M postage paid at Lincoln. NE ALL MATERIAL COFYRICMT I9B7 DAILY NEBRASKAN GOTCHA “SOONER i * kt_ Special 12" Medium 16" Large $7 *99!W v Big Red Speciai-Nebraskan’s favorite cheese pizza with Thick crust, Ground Beef, Smoked Ham, Mushrooms, and Extra Cheese. Call Us! 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