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Show FAA Orders Check Of Certain Engines - WASHINGTON Federal (UPI) aviation officials Thursday ordered the nations airlines to inspect hundreds of aircraft with certain Pratt and Whitney engines to look for cracks that could result in a major part of the engine breaking loose. The part is a combustion chamber outer case, a large metal sleeve that encases the combustion chambers of the engine. Such a part figured in an incident Oct. 20 involving an Eastern Airlines DC-- jetliner in which a section of the engine failed and pealed back following takeoff from Tampa, Fla. There were no injuries. The Federal Aviation Administration directive applies to many of the JT-8engines that are on about 1,000 Boeing 727, 350 Boeing 737 and 580 DC9 airplanes in the United States. An FAA spokesman said the order, which requires visual inspection of the combustion chamber outer case for cracks adjacent to rear bolt holes, should not affect airline service. The airworthiness directive is needed to prevent rupture of the combustion chamber outer case due to fatigue cracking, which could result in inflight shutdowns, engine cowl releases or air frame damage, the agency said. The FAA said it has determined that some of the combustion chamber outer cases can develop cracks during flights. 9 "These cracks result from low cycle fatigue initialing in the higher stressed areas of the case, it said. To date, there have been 35 rear flange cracks reported on combus- tion chamber outer cases, officials said. Two of the cases, including the Eastern flight, resulted in uncontained ruptures, causing engine and airframe damage, they said. The directive applies to Pratt and Whitney JT8D-1- , 1A, IB, 7, 7A, 7b, 9, 9A, 11, 15, 15A, 17, 17A, 17R, and 17AR turbofan engines. Some of the airlines already have begun the inspections. The agency said they will be given adequate time to carry out the inspections, which is a relatively simple procedure, with the deadline depending on how many flights the engines have logged. Garn Endorses Fund for New Shuttle By Thomas H. Gorey Tribune Washington Bureau Sen. Jake Garn, WASHINGTON the first sitting member of Congress to go into space, Thursday endorsed private efforts to raise money for the construction of a spacecraft to replace the space shuttle Challenger that exploded last week. Garn, who said his office has been inundated with phone calls and letters calling for a new shuttle, put his blessings on the United States Space educational Foundation, a group based in Colorado Springs, as the focal point" for collecting donations to replace Challenger. The Utah Republican said such donations, even if they fall far short of the $2 billion needed to build a new shuttle, would send a strong message to Congress of public support for the idea. Garn, who is chairman of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that funds the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said he favors the construction of a new shuttle. But the senator denied he was colplotting to put pressure on his a replacement for leagues to fund Challenger. Rather. Garn said, he simply wanted to recognize the Colorado group as a central fund collector to make sure donations are properly accounted for. Garn made his comments at a Capitol Hill news conference, where he introduced Richard P. MacLeod, executive director of the Space Foundation. MacLeod said the money his group collects will be deposited in a Colorado bank and will be kept there to draw interest until Congress decides whether to authorize construction of a new shuttle. If it decides not to, the Space Foundation will turn the money over to NASA to use on other space activities, MacLeod said. MacLeod said his group has collected more than $41,000 so far. In response to reporters' questions, Garn reiterated his support for the nations manned space program, saying the benefits are intangible but - non-profi- t, pro-shutt- "priceless. MacLeod said donations for buildto ing a new shuttle should be sent Nation7 First Fund, The Challenger Colorado al Bank, P.O. Box No. 51-Springs, Colo., 80901. Mother Gets AIDS By Handling Fluids From Her Sick Boy Federal health ATLANTA (AP) officials Thursday reported the first case of a parent getting the AIDS virus from a child. But they blamed it on extensive contact with the blood and bodily fluids of a very sick infant, not on ordinary contact among family members. This is a very extreme example, said Dr. Harold Jaffe, a top AIDS reCensearcher at the Atlanta-baseThats Control. for Disease very ters important. The child, now 2, was born with a severe intestinal abnormality which has required numerous operations, the use of bags to collect his excretions, and blood transfusions from at least 26 donors. In one of those transfusions, most likely in May 1984, he picked up the virus which causes AIDS from the blood of an infected donor, the CDC reported. The boys mother, in months of caring for him in a hospital and at home, frequently handled his blood, his waste and tubes used to feed him. The mother, 32, wore no gloves during these procedures, and "often did not wash her hands immediately after blood or secretion contact," the CIKI said d 3 Ex-Aid- to Guru es Return to U.S. To Face Charges - Ma PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Sheela, former personal secretary to Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and two other former leaders of his sect returned to the United States on Thursday to face charges that include trying to kill the gurus doctor. Sheela, 36, and Ma Anand Puja, 38, flew from Frankfurt, West Germany, to New York, where they changed planes for a flight to Portland. Ma Shanti Bhadra, 40, flew to Chicago and was to go to San Francisco before arriving in Portland, The Oregonian An-an- d newspaper said. The three women had been jailed in Buehl, West Germany, since their arrest Oct. 28 on charges they tried to kill Rajneeshs physician with a poison syringe at the sects central Oregon commune. They also have been e assault and charged with murder conspiracy in the alleged attack on Swami Devaraj, 41, who the euru when he was first-degre- The Salt Lake Tribune, Friday, February 7, 1986 24 Striking Meatpackers Arrested For Trying to Stop Replacements - More than AUSTIN, Minn. (UPI) two dozen striking meatpackers who tried to stop replacements from entering the Geo. A. Hormel L Co. plant were arrested Thursday along with a labor leader who promptly began a e hunger strike, Labor strategist Ray Rogers, who was warned by a judge Tuesday he would go to jail if he violated an indemonstrajunction against mass tions again, was held without formal charges, Mower County Attorney Fred Kraft said. We have 36 hours to issue the was charges," Kraft said. He said he of researching a possible charge carries which criminal syndicalism, a fine of $5,000 and 5 years in jail. jail-hous- In a statement from his jail cell, Rogers said he had begun a hunger sti ike "in protest of todays wanton violation of workers and the public's constitutional rights. Rogers would not say under what conditions he would end his fast. Kraft said Rogers would be held until a court appearance expected Friday. Mower County Sheriff Wayne Goodnature said the arrests were orderly and occurred when 26 pickets refused five women and 21 men an order to leave. They had walked up to a police and National Guard post on a road leading to the north entrance of the plant. Before the arrest, about 70 strikers forced police and the National Guard to close a road to the Hormel plant for five minutes. But the protest failed to keep 850 replacement em A5 from streaming into plant, which opened on schedule. Some 1,500 meatpackers from United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local P-- have been on strike since Aug. 17 in a dispute over wages, safety and seniority. Union members, who are seeking $10.69 an hour, have twice rejected a mediator's proposal calling for $10 an hour in a three-yea- r contract. The pickets stood on a snowbank along the road and yelled at those going to work, "Scab go home." "Those pickets are not just a lot of tourists, Goodnature said. Rogers, who was hired by the, P-- 9 local, said earlier he might use civil disobedience tactics, such as lying down on the streets to block the plant gates. Those arrested were arraigned on charges of obstructing justice. ployees 9 |
