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Show Crash Probe Points To More Violations Conlii.acd from First Page Donald copilot, surviving Skipper, 34, said the plane was being flown so the football players could see ski resorts below. Investigators in Denyer and Oklahoma Cliy today questioned the mduntain flying experience of the crew supplied by Golden Eagle. In Wichita the universitys president, Dr. Clark Ahlberg, revealed that the charter service, Golden Eagle, had been selected over bids from two major airlines when the airlines could not guarantee planes for the entire 1970 season. T r ansportation Secretary John A. Volpe today said evidence suggests there may have been some wrongdoing connected with the flight. He did not elaborate. He also said it was possible that the FAA warned WSU against using Golden Eagle for charter flights prior to the schools signing a contract. The secretary said the crash had given the government the impetus to accelerate an investigation of all flight operations which had been under way before the crash. Sometimes it takes an accident of this type to tighten up further, he said. Dr. Ahlberg said the school had $25,000 life insurance policies on each student. Trainer Tom Reeves had the minimum amount for trainers and coaches, $50,000, and other coaches had up to $250,000 each. The policies were part of a program offered by the NCAA and taken by WSU. However, an NCAA spokesman said the charter COUNTRY SAGE October 6, 1970 DESERET NfcVS, Tuesday, A 7 ' Plane s Pilot, Crew Missing LOGAN policies would pay only if an accident occurred on a correctly licensed plane flown by a fully licensed pilot. The father of one of the victims, L. L. Roberts of Oklahoma City, filed a $1 million damage suit against the d sister plane, a Martin 404, crashed in Colorado killing 30 persons. Assistant Federal Aviaiiuti Administration area manager D. R. Newton said today the FAA is interested in questioning the missing pilot and crew, but that their disappearance is not regarded as criminal. A '! with the crash. Roberts daughter, Judy Dunn, 39, of Oklahoma City, died in the accident. The suit claimed that pilot error combined with negligence on the parts of the owner, operator and builder of the aircraft to cause the crash. The suit asked for $600,000 and in actual damages $400,000 punitive damages. Efforts continued today to identify the bodies of ;he victims. Only the body of the pilot, who was thrown clear of the wreckage, had been The disappear- ance of the pilot and crew of the plane that brought part of the Wichita State University football team here last Friday has given rise to a flurry of rumors. "Every his rights fringe on rights." man is entitled to unless they inanother fellow's Kidnaped In Genoa GENOA, ITALY (AP) -- abducted today Kidnapers Cadolla, Sergio son of one of Genoas wealthiest widows, and telephoned the mother a demand for ransom. Police said the kidnapers apparently grabbed the youth at the door of his home when he returned shortly alter midnight. $320,000 twin-engine- We dont have an arrest order out for them or anything like that, he said. Newton said the pilot, copilot and a stewardess rented a car and drove aw-afrom the Logan Cache Airport by the time FAA investigators arrived. Rumors that the pilot of the aircraft had had his license at the revoked are not correct, Newton said, but he added that apparently r.is physical examination was overdue. shortly afier landing airport. Meanwhile, a Logan man who rented the crew the car they drove away in is wondering what happened to his car. Roy Theurer, manager of Valley Airmotive Corp., and owner oi the Rent - a -- motel, Theurer said. 'The stewardess was in the back seat, the copilot setting next to the driver. The pilot drove the car away, he said. Theurer said the pilot .signed for the car with name Ralph Hill. He said subsequent checking showed no Ralph Hill listed as a member We thought the pilot was in a hurrj to get down to a Ktu Car agency, said the three missing aircraft personnel rented a car from him Friday of the crew or among the pas- sengers. Theurer also said he received no deposit on the rented car. They were representing Wichita "State University and we customarily dont charge a deposit on visiting teams like that, he said. We didnt ask when the a car would be returned usually these people stay until after the game and then fly the plane back with the team. 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