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.”
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