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Show All ___ The Salt LakeTribune NATION Thursday. June 3, 1999_ Crash in Little Rock vi An AmericanAirlines plane carryit peopie eAidded of &reualchoned runway Kileat least nine people. Daiess cee =ed, Ewell, whooversees all American ad Left wing 2 hes, Winds Plane skids gusting off runway, afire. more than 87 veers left, hits plane stops gtoum mph as plane light pole, i nearriver Passengers escape lands } breaks into three through broken pieces : fuselage. emergency oe besd-in. lights Frustration Sapping Environmental Concern THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — Americans are so would be leaving town.” said Cecil Flight PeeVe eT said he would not have attempted to land the plane if wind speeds exceeded 57.5 mph. “If someone told me there were 50 knot gusts at the airport, I exits Airlines’ pilots. Black also said that power went out at the airport about the time of the accident, althoughhesaid it discouraged bythe difficulty of solving Earth's environmental problems that they have begun losing interest. researchers say That conclusion came from a wasn't known whether the acci- review of public opinion surveys. whether any power outage con- global tributed to theaccident. they're just going to get frustrat- Buschmann apparently died at the controls. Thefirst officer was ed,” said John Immerwahr ofVillanova University who led the re- dent caused the power outage or severely injured but survived. A check of the plane’s maintenance records revealed no major problems “If you keeptelling people that the American Geophysical Union, and were reunited with friends More Than 50 and relatives in a theater at a nearby aerospace museum. The coroner said nine people were killed, leaving two people unac- @ Continued from A-1 countedfor. Thefatalities were the first for 40 percent and 24 percent know what to do about it annual meeting In 1989. 51 percent of Americans said they worried a great deal about damage to the ozone layer, and 35 percent felt the More people worry greatly about water pollution than other environmental issues — 61 per cent. But even that is down from 72 percent in 1989 FATHER’S DAY SALE June 2-21, 1999 a US. carrier in nearly 142 years. ars Theyalso werethefirst in a com- mercial carrier at Little Rock's rying 139 passengers and a crew airportin its 82-year history. of six, barreled down Runway 4R toward the Arkansas River. “When we hit the ground, | thought, ‘Thank Godthat we'll be safe,’ Montgomery said. “Then! lookedout of my window and all I saw was grass. I prayed that we'd stop, but we kept on going.” The airplaneslid off the 7,200foot runway, past an access road and whipped around a metaltow- er for beacons that lead south- bound planesto the airport. The stanchion acted like a can opener, peeling back the plane’s thin shell on theleft side from the captain's controls through the first-class section. The fire started behind that point, from fuelspilled as the plane broke up. “Once the smoke got too thick, there was nothing we could do, Baber said. ‘‘People were screaming, ‘God, please save us!’ The jarring collision with the tower broke open other cracks in the aircraft — some just wide enoughto allow passengersto slip out. Safety, however, offered new misery: Baber landed in soggy bottomland along an Arkansas River backwater where passengers were pelted with golfballsize hail Survivorsstoodin rain and hail for 24% hours, with the rain sometimesfalling at a rate of 7 inches an hour. Hospitals said they treated 83 people for injuries, mostly cuts and burns. “I haven't seen anything like Last year, aviationofficials cel- ebrated a fatality-free year aboard U.S. commercial flights. U.S. airlines also had oneoftheir safest years ever in 1997, a year after oneof the deadliest. A violent downpour, steady winds of 50 mph and gusts of up to 75 mph were reported in the area just before the plane landed. The storm had a peak gust of 87 mphsix minutesafter the crash Radar images reviewed Wednesday by the National Weather Service showed the storm arriving at Little Rock's airport about the same time the jet arrived. “The scenario that the storm approached one end of the runway as the plane approached from the other probably is correct,” meteorologist George Wil- kensaid American Airlines Executive Vice President Bob Baker said regular weather updates were relayed to the plane's captain, Rich- ard Buschmann. George Black, a spokesmanfor the National Transportation Safe- ty Board, said investigators want to know what Buschmann was told about the approaching storm andthe deteriorating conditions. “It's ultimately a pilot's deci- sion to landornot, but they have to base that on the information they have,” he said There was nodistress call from the cockpit before the landing, it,” said Mark Washington, a security guard at Southwest Hospi- said William Shumann, a Federal dazed. Aviation fuel, I could smell American Airlines’ chief pilot tal. “They looked shocked and Aviation Administration spokesman. Immerwahr said many people blameglobal warming on greed and selfishness of consumers and polluters — a trend they view as irreversible at Deseret Book Knight Ridder Tribune Kills 9, Injures same about global warming. In 1997. those numbers dropped to ings were released in Boston on Wednesdayat the organization's SAVE 20%-80% ®@ 2 unaccounted for it on them. Another 51 people were unhurt dangerous. 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