Black boxes sent to U S in Canary Islands crash probe
Four electronic black boxes and a tape recording from the Santa Cruz de Tenerife disaster were sent to Washington to help determine why a KLM 747 struck a Pan Am 747 as both were preparing to take off. Investigators expect cockpit and tower conversations to shed light on clearance and taxiing questions.
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Santa Cruz DE Tenerife
Canary Islands
United States
Washington
KLM
Royal Dutch Airlines
Santa Cruz
Barnea
Coc
Seal
U.S
Pan. Aw
Pan Am
Haley
Selec
Californians seek $2 billion in jet disaster suit
A class action filed in U S District Court seeks 1 989 billion dollars for 306 Californians killed or injured in the 747 collision in the Canary Islands. Plaintiffs accuse Pan American KLM and Boeing of negligence and seek 1.5 million in general damages and 5 million in punitive damages per claimant.
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San Francisco
Cer
Lion
Califa
Canary Islands
U.S. District Court
Harold E. McClintock
Placerville
Myrtle B. McClintock
David Nelson Roman
Sunnyvale
Ruth Roman
Pan Am stewardesses survive crash return home
Four Pan Am stewardesses who survived the worst airline disaster in history flew back to the United States. Dorothy Kelly described the impact with wind and noise, while other survivors and passengers recalled the terror as the KLM 747 collided during takeoff at Tenerife.
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Dorothy Kelley
New York
Kennedy Airport
Pan Am
Pan American World Airways
KLM
United States
Dorothy Kelly
Fitzwillism
N.A
Surviving Canary Islands crash recalls near-miss deaths
Laguna Hills survivor Floy Heck says as many as 100 of the passengers who died in the Canary Islands disaster might have survived but froze with fear and could not escape. Her husband pulled her from the burning wreckage as a wall blew away on their side. She compares the scene to the Hindenburg crash and recalls praying aloud during the terror.
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Qames
KLM
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Canary Islands
Pnor
Laguna Hills
Floy Heck
Meek
Pan American World Airways
Heck
Leisure World
UC Irvine
Paul
Berrigan Released From Arlington Jail After 57 Days
Philip Berrigan, ex priest and Vietnam antiwar leader, was freed in Arlington after 57 days of a 60 day sentence for daubing his blood on the Pentagon and linking himself to its doors during a protest against U.S. nuclear policy. His wife Elizabeth Medlister remains jailed on a 90 day term, and 26 others were arrested in the protest.
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Arlington, Va
Philip Berrigan
Arlington County
Pentagon
U.S
Berrigan
Elizabeth Medlister
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