DC-10 cracks under scrutiny delay flight clearance
Airline mechanics and U S government inspectors search DC-10 pylon areas for new cracks. FAA reports 36 of 138 DC-10s checked with cracks found in one United Airlines and two Trans International planes. Cracks not currently in critical safety areas. Hearings by Senate subcommittee on certification and inspection proceed with FAA, NTSB, and ALPA witnesses.
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Washington
U.S
Senate Commerce Aviation
FAA
Langhorne Bond
James King
National Transportation Safety Board
John O’donnell
Airline Pilots Association
Chicago
United States
Dennis Feldman
United Airlines
Trans International Airlines
Feldman
Fred Farrar
Frank Costello
World Airlines
Confusion blamed in Windsor air crash
Investigators blamed confusion in an airspace area monitored by three airports for a mid air collision over Windsor. Five people were killed including three Americans Harris Verschure Dowald McCombs and Roger Gust and two Canadians. Daverman Associates identified the American victims and described the two planes involved. One plane was piloted by Dowald McCombs and the other by an unnamed flyer.
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Windsor
Ont
Daverman Associates Inc
Grand Rapids
Mich
Harris Verschure
Daverman
Dowald McCombs
Roger Gust
David Ross
Ross
Stuart Price
London
Montreal
Price
Sault Ste. Marie
Transport Canada
Detroit
Metropolitan
Detroit International
City
Diane Pare
SALT II treaty seen as acceptable risk says Joint Chiefs
The U S Joint Chiefs of Staff call SALT II in the national interest and verifiable but Gen David Jones warns it must be paired with force modernization. Some officials fear a lukewarm stance while Jones warns none are totally at ease with all provisions.
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Washington
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
United States
David Jones
Airforce
Joint Chiefs
U.S
Carter Administration
Jones
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sadat and Begin back Lebanon integrity amid stalled peace talks
Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin pledged that Lebanon must remain intact and not be partitioned. They avoided promising an end to West Bank settlements while signaling continued discussions on Palestinian autonomy and renewed talks in Haifa.
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Alexandria
Anwar Sadat
Menachem Begin
Lebanon
Sadat
West Bank
Begin
Israel
PLO
Palestine Liberation Organization
Ras El-Tine
Mediterranean
Haifa
West
Jordan River
Saad Haddad
Beirut
Bathurst police end seven day strike amid rioting in streets
In Bathurst New Brunswick police return to work after talks collapse and the rank structure clause is dropped from the agreement. The 26 officer force faced downtown vandalism as negotiations shift to provincial arbitration with the outside workers. Leopold Arsenault of CUPE notes the rank clause would govern promotions.
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Bathurst
N.B
Blair Boucher
Boucher
Khomeini overrules government in military dispute
Ayatollah Khomeini defied Premier Bazargan and overruled the dismissal of Brig. Gen. Seif Amir Rahimi as commander of the military police. Defence Minister Riahi acknowledged Khomeini’s ultimate authority, saying the imam can hire or fire generals and has restored Rahimi from retirement to lead the police. Rahimi pledged to arrest conspirators against the revolution.
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Tehran
Ruhollah Khomeini
Mehdi Bazargan
Taghi Riahi
Ministry of National Defence
Seif Amir Rahimi
Riahi
Ayatollah
Rahimi
Khomeini
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Associated Press
Ayatollah Khomeini
Shah
Nasser Farhad
Skylab Falls In Ocean After Reentry Over Indian Ocean
Skylab plummeted to earth with debris scattered across about 5,920 kilometers of the Indian Ocean south of Australia. NORAD and NASA tracked the fiery descent. most debris was expected to splash into the ocean with no land impacts reported.
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Washington
Indian Ocean
Australia
North American Air Defence Command
NORAD
Perth
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Flaming Laboratory
Kalgoorlie
Esperance
Albany
Space Agency
Ascension Island
South Atlantic
Central Africa
Skylab
North America
Cape Canaveral
Fla
North Pacific
United States
Everett
Wash
Canada
Montreal
Ottawa
Maine
Augusta
Madrid
U.S
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Iran
Leopold Arsenault
Canadian Union of Public Employees
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