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Show E Utah Thursday, November 30, 1989 The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah 3 Search for missing skier NTSB: didn't climb high enough Helicopter winds down; hope fades PARK CITY (AP) A helicop- ter that crashed when a cable - LOGAN (AP) About 30 searchers combed Logan Canyon again Wednesday for a cross-countr- y skierl missing since Saturday, but authorities said the search may soon be called off. : Cache County Sheriff Sid Groll said he no longer is optimistic about the chances of finding Mark Miller of River eights. The sheriff said he would talk to Miller's family Wednesday evening to evaluate what has been done. "We'll get their input and then decide what to do after that," he said. of search; Groll said the number ers, was reduced Wednesday and helicopters were not used. However, choppers from the Civil Air: Patrol continued to fly over the area" to check specific places that are difficult or too dangerous for searchers to reach from the ground. ; Miller's mother, Joyce Miller, said she believes searchers have done everything possible under the circumstances. "If anyone couid survive this ordeal, it would be Mark because he is in excellent physical shape and is well trained in survival skills," she said. Groll said the past four days have been frustrating. "We have covered every possible spot in the area, including a cave, sinkholes and a lean-t- o near White Pine Lake," he said. P snagged a trailer apparently did not go high enough before going forward, an investigator said. Killed in the crash Tuesday was Craig Badami, 37, vice president of marketing for Park City Ski Resort and director of last weekend's World Cup competition at the resort. He was the son of Nick Badami, owner of the ski area and the Alpine Meadows Ski Corp. in Lake Tahoe, Nev. Five others were injured. V3J? The crew had been dismantling and transporting a sound system used during the races from the base of the mountain. Witnesses said the craft was taking off for another load when a 50- - to cargo cable snagged on a trailer, snapped up into the rotor and brought down the copter. The helicopter came down about 150 feet west of the parking lot, near the base of the Three Kings ski lift, sending fragments of metal 1,000 feet from the crash site, Bell said. 60-fo-ot SPORTING GOODS -- The Three Kings run was not open for public skiing and no one on the ground was injured. balance, and you feel a great vibration and you lose control." The helicopter, an Aerospatial Alouette SA316, was owned by Rocky Mountain Helicopter of Provo. Passengers Michael Simonsen, 29, Kearns, and Ed Pratt, 38, Salt Lake City, remained in serious but stable condition at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center in Salt Lake City, said hospital spokesman Bryant "He (the pilot) climbed to about 30 feet and started to go forward, and that wasn't high enough to clear the trailer," said Verlin Tranter, National Transportation Safety Board investigator. "The hook got caught on a small house trailer and after it got free, it shattered one of the blades," he said. "Once that happens, it puts the aircraft out of in ; ' l i Army said to have fixed violations 21 TOOELE ARMY DEPOT (AP) ; -T- ooele Army Depot already has resolved 21 of 40 alleged violations state hazardous waste regulations at its pilot chemical weapons disposal plant, a spokeswoman Of says. State officials say the violations were discovered at the Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System, located in the remote south section of the western desert installation, and associated sites during a week-lon- g inspections in May and June. 'None of the alleged violations, involved the actual leakage of nerve gas, said Dennis Downs, director of the state Health Department's solid and hazardous waste division. TAD spokeswoman Susan Barrcw said Wednesday that most of the violations were of an administrative nature, such as lack of proper forms or keeping them up to date. She said installation officials had worked with the state since the inspections, and the 19 unresolved allegations also were being corrected: ;"None of the violations were . We weren't spilling things into the environment," Barrow said. "We take them very seriously. We want compliance." Downs had said much the same when he gave a general description of the allegations as dealing with precautionary regulations designed to keep an accident from happening. "Those munitions and those agents are designed to kill people and so we take our job very seriously, (which is) going out there and making sure the Army is in compliance," he said. Just last month, the installation was given awards by the Department of Defense and the Department of the Army for excellence in environmental management. chemical agent A new incinerating facility, designed to full-sca- le dispose of nerve gas munitions being stored at TAD that account for 40 percent of the nation's chemical arsenal, is planned at a site near JrP CAMDS. 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