Show T entative Accord Reached to End Steel Strike Crash Cleanup Probe Begin g Glitch Saves Group From Air Tragedy By Mike Correll and Stephen Hunt Tribune Staff Writers Passengers Rerouted From Idaho Falls SkyWest Western Express commuter aircraft was within restricted airspace and flying at its authorized level when it collided with a single-engin- e plane killing 10 people and showering wreckage over part of Kearns a A National Transportation Safety Board member said S'sConPB-3in- Special to The Tribune IDAHO FALLS - A faulty switch on SkyWest Flight 1834 prevented up to 11 passengers from boarding the doomed flight Thursday Fam Mulberry manager of Global Travel which has an office at the air port said people waiting for the plane were called back from the Fri- day John Lauber who is heading the investigation said radar data from Salt Lake City International Airport buttressed by three eyewitness accounts of the collision indicates the small plane "intersected" the right front side of the SkyWest aircraft at a angle He also said air traffic control records showed the commuter airplane flying at 7000 feet above mean sea level the elevation assigned for its descent to the main airport "There are some significant marks of interest on the under side of the right wing of the Sky West Metroliner that will he looked at Saturday " Mr Lauber said He added that the small plane a Mooney with two men on board did not establish radio contact with the approach control tower at the main airport a requirement for any planes traversing the restricted area Two crewmen and six passengers on the SkyWest Fair-chilMetroliner and the occupants of the private plane were killed in the 12:52 pm collision No one on the ground was injured although a number of homes were damaged SkyVVest Airlines on Friday identified the victims on its plane as the pilot Capl Michael D Gambill 37 Helena Mont the first officer Walter F Ray Jr 33 Chub-bucIdaho and passengers Tom Rouse 32 Beverly Hills Calif: Chuck Montgomery 50 Woodinville Wash LaV’erne Tiger 50s Wakpala S D Nekoma Rangel fi computer-generate- hoarding gate As got ready to gate ageni ati nounced the plane had a mechanical problem and that it was going to lu sent to Pocatello to he checked out she said People from Idaho Falls by sheet miracle were not on that plane" she told Idaho Falls 'r re porter Rocky Barker The paper had another connection to the tragedy One of its editors Sal ly Bailey rode the plane from Sail Lake City to Idaho Falls before tin return trip plane began its On the northward journey she wui the flight's only passenger and atlei learning of the accident she wrote a newspaper column about the trip T'lbjm MM! by lyf"! n JMm about joking with the crew about ti e A growing pile of wreckage scars this church’s accident itself Kearns area bring in more debris Later the Will Anderson was one ol the groiq See Column 4 mand post was moved to a sheriff’s substation Friday as cleanup crews scouring the with hoarding passes ready left war mg at the gate Thursday when an ait line representative turned away passengers at Fanning Field because faulty switch The flight went on to Pocatello where the switch war fixed Len Nelson Pocatello Airpoi1 manager said Friday The plane left Pocatello at 12 ii p m and 43 minutes later collided in midair w ith a small plane while mal ing its final approach to Salt Lake own little nicks in the governor's to all Utahns that is alarming not By Douglas L Parker Pity Airport what we want to hear and bewilderTribune Political Editor plan" he added Anderson an Idaho Falls busines-maGov Bangerter at Ins own press ing in how we can possibly meet ris The Utah Legislature ended its had to complete a deal Friday Moldings: IM first week in session Friday with few ing costs in the face of limited re briefing said lie's also putting "a lot and wanted to get to Washington sources and limited growth" Sen of pressure" on public agencies and members fully embracing Gov Norm DC-- 8 DC as early as possible is still locked up in a hanger Christensen told a news conference the public and higher education svs call 'We had the two babies in the hues outside of Paris Bangerter's for more than $200 terns to keep costs down The most visible evidence of legisand I drove Will to the airport in tin "The wish may be father of the million in state tax lative reaction came in a House Re“I don't know anyone who is re word" Mr Dunlop said morning and dropped him off" said increases to supa poll initial caucus where who doesn't agree that we Ann Kiemel Anderson Ins wife who publican sponsible "Mr Khashoggi says he dissemly indicated no support for the have to have a tax increase he reit also flies frequently "Then a friend port next fiscal bles on occasions" he said "This tax budget year's crated plan and said "Oh Ann I'm glad y ou governor's called be an occasion when you have may The governor added lie s But House Speaker Glen Brown R Senate Presitrying to weren't on that SkyWest plane that caught him dissembling because crashed Coalville said the straw vote didn’t dent Arnold Chrisimpress educators and people in genwe are assured by our lawyers that eral that such a tax hike cannot be reflect a hard-linattitude toward She called her husband's Haul tensen a eourt order categorically cannot what you gel now tax increases but was an expression and learned her husband had repeated be lifted without a eourt hearing agent speaking on behalf " that priority should be placed on findmight be all vou’ll see been rebooked on a Western Airlines of the Republican "A court hearing is scheduled to" ing "economy and efficiency Legislators brainstormed most of flight day They may be successful later leadership prethe week groping for avenues to trim dicts that approin the day" Mr Dunlop said "As of "He said he was supposed to go on Sen Lyle Hi II yard apsesthe budgetary requests enough to now it is utter baloney " that plane" said Mrs Anderson described priation meetings in the propriations avoid the brunt of tax increases prosion will recommend "fewer dollars the action as the traditional part of Through a miraculous chain Alex Wilson a solicitor for Mr " more than rather posed hv the governor which include events he was saved I guess God in the I See Column legislative process balancing See Column 3 wasn't through with him yet " "The governor has sent a message alternatives "Everybody has their ticket-holder- board the s SkyVVest d k corn-groun- A-- 7 Lawmakers Show Tax Plan No Mercy in First Week Do French Still Have KhashoggVs By Guy Boulton Tribune Staff Writer Adnan Khashoggi may be flying coach among the great unwashed for a while though he denies it Mr Khashnggi's luxurious J40 one of the most million DC-conspicuous symbols of his con— was seized by spicuous lifestyle French authorities this week The jet was seized for lailure to pay a $2 5 million loan from Roland "Tiny" Row land chief executive of Ionrho a British mining and trad- - j ing conglomerate Mr Khashoggi told The Trib- une early Friday morning from Fans that the aircraft was re- leased Thursday But fi F Dunlop a spokesman for Lnni'ho said Friday that the DC-8- ? ST ' e y l A-- 2 Ecuador Earns Release of Abducted President by Freeing Rebels - President QUITO Ecuador (AP) Leon Febres Cordero kidnapped Friday by renegade paratroopers during a visit to the Taura air base was treed more than 10 hours later when t lie government released the leader of an earlier revolt The Taura base is near the port city of Guayaquil 170 miles southeast of Quito the capital Radio reports said the president Defense Minister Gen Medardo Salazar and others seized by the para troopers left the air base in a caravan of cars and went to the Guayaquil governor's mansion People were reported gathered along the streets of the caravan's route and applauded as the cars passed The broadcasts said the president and his party were freed immediately after Gen Frank Vargas Paos who had been jailed following an attempted revolt last March arrived at the Taura base aboard a special gov- ernment plane Local news reports earlier in the day said as many as 15 people might have been killed in a gun battle between paratroopers and presidential bodyguards but Febres Cordero said in a telephone conversation that he and Salazar were uninjured Febres Cordero and other mem hers of his party were seized at about 9 45 a m and freed at 8 p m Vice President Blasco Penaher-rerhad anounced earlier that the troopers who seized the president had said "As soon as Gen Vargas Pazos arrives at the Taura air base President Febres Cordero will be freed " Penaherrera speaking late Friday national radio and television broadcast said "I want to officially inform you that President Leon in a Chuckle Today’s Aid to education used to mean dad was helping the kids with their homework Decade After Gilmore And Guns Still Silent By Joan O'Brien Tribune Staff Writer The morning of his execution by volunteer firing squad murderer Gary Mark Gilmore walked by the cells ol fellow death-roinmates William Andrews and Dale Pierre si thy and veiled "be seeing you diiectly Gilmore was then driven to a building that had once housed the tali Slate Prison's cannery He was strapped into an old office chair surrounded with sandbags 1 and a dingy mattress A black hood was placed on his head and a white target was placed on his chest Gilmore died before the firing squad at 8 07 a m Jan 17 1977 It was the first execution in the United States in nearly 10 years the lust in Utah in nearly 17 years I ike Gilmore many believed it would trigger executions ol bun of convicted killers on death rows hi Utah and other stales died- - Bui inoie than two years passed hi Ion- another execution was car i led out in the United States Flori 4 death penalties Indeed attorneys say it could be i killers the executions of the who have nearly completed every level of appeal in the state and federal courts that pave the way for future executions in Utah Killers' appeal is The the lead case challenging Utah s death penally statute" said Eatl Dot tus the assistant Utah attorney general who worked on the Gil iikii e case and who now argues the Hi-F- Hi-F- i T A-- Column citizen" he said Febres Cordero arrived in Guayaquil "amid an enthusiastic demonstration by supporters of the constitutional government'' and then added This is a moment that reaffirms our democracy Let s retire to our homes and wan confidently for a hotter tomorrow The vice president said BONN West Germany APi - The Justice Ministry on Friday predicted West Germany would extradite a suspected airplane hijacker to the United States - but not without US assurances that he will not be executed if convicted Mohammed Ah Hamadi who had been sought in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner was artested Tuesday at the Frankfurt airport He is the hi first person arrested in the javkiiig in which a US Navy diver was shot to death at Beirut airport before the 38 other American hns tages Justice Ministry spokesman Juer-geSchmid said ihe government has received a preliminary request from the US Embassy for extradition ol Hamadei and he told a news confer enee that federal authorities foresee no difficulties with the extradition It would appear this can be ban died quickly" Schmid said But hi' said West Germany which has no death penalty has told Ihe United States it must first have an assurance that Hamadi will not be put to death Air piracy cairies a da executed John Spenkclink in May 1979 after he had exhausted his appeals Since Spenkelink 88 people have been executed Currently some 1800 inmates are held on death rows around the country and 250 more each year are sentenced to death Utah has not carried out another death sentence since the old Gilmore faced ihe firing squad Hi Ft killers Andrews and Selby who had been on death row two years before Gilmore's murder conviction are still fighting their See free Earlier speaking at an afternoon news conference at the presidential palace in Quito Penaherrera made no mention of an earlier demand by the kidnappers that Febres Cordeio he ('moved from office Vargas Pazos 52 a former an force commander had been held a' the Epiclachima army base in the jungle east of Quito since the quashed revolt awaiting trial on charge stemming front his actions Bonn Is Apt to Send US TWA Hijack Suspect Utah Executions Since !N Febres Cordero and his party were freed tonight at the Taura air base "General Vargas Pazos is now at the Taura base with the status of a 3 death-penalt- cm fo date Gary Gilmore's march through the icgal maze with a firing squad didn't trigger a deluge of executions to a l t provision m the I man prosecutors courts and two gov ernment ministries Justice and the Foreign Ministry Inside The Trihu ne Tribune Telephone Numbers on A-- 3 nited States US Embassy spokesman Rebel! Heath declined comment Fridav about whether the nited Stales would provide such a guarantee 1 The final decision to extradite Ha madi must be approved by West Get I I iH tritsI Salt Lake City and vicinity ( loudy skies and windy Highs ui low 2os Lows t) :o n Kf |