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SECOND SECTION

WASHINGTON (AP) '—
The: federal government
ordered all U:S, airlines to
conduct immediate in-

"gectlons of thelr DC-to
- fetliners Monday, searching

for cracka in a small but
crucial bolt which su
the engines on the airliner’ 'S

DC-10s nat inspected by 3
am. EDT. today were or-
dered grounded by.
Bond, ad-
ministrator of the Federal
Aviation
(FAA),

It appeared. that -in-
spections would be com-
tex onmany of the: planes

grounding ‘was ordered after
investigators concluded that

a similar bolt. broke

before Friday’: crash

dmerican tsing he eng E
cago, caus ¢.eng

to fall off the owing.

» The crash ed 271: jer.

Persois on thd ground,
making it the worst accident
in U.S. ‘aviation history. No
Canadians .were known ‘to
hava been: aboard ithe air-

e Aines moved quickly te
comply with the FAA air-
w ess directive. Many
sald their planes would be-
arder took well before the

took effect. .

American said al of its'30
DC-108 would be inspected
by mid-afternoon Monday,

and “the bolts would be
‘replaced whether cracks

were found or not,

- American said no defecta
were found in the first group
inspected. .

United Airlines said only
13 of its 37 DC-10s would be in
service because it stil] had

. only limited operations after

a ‘lengthy strike, which

ended recently. It said all 13

would be inspected by the
grounding deadline.
Northwest Airlines sald all

Administration:

land" two

DC- 10s to be inspected —
for cracks i in the bolts

of “ite DC-108. had been in-

spected,
‘In Miami, - National
Airlines sald it - was

g with inspections.

proceedin
National said it owns 15 DC. |

10s and leases one,

Worldwide, about 260 DC:

108 are operated by 41
’ airlines, Only 134 of the wide-

ets — those under U.S, |
read fall under FAA -

registry —
jurisdiction but Bond urged
forelgn airlines ‘to ‘follow
“our urgent advice on the
need for inspections,”

‘In Ottawa, Transport

' Canada officials announced .
that ._DC-103 are’ not belng

grounded but said it has
oaked the only ‘Canadian
operator .of the plane —

‘Wardalr-— to take ‘special
~-safety. precautions with the

two DC-10s in its fieet.

A Wardair spokesman sald
both aircraft were being in-
‘sheeted Monday.

Laker Alrways, which
dperates regular charter
flights using DC-16s between

Britain: and Cal ada and the |

~ebtiprice. i service:
between London and New

York, delayed one charter _§

flight into Toronto Monday
while engine belts were in-
spected at Manchester.

The Finnish state airline,
Finnair, said its two DC-10s
are being checked this week

but there will be no changes -

to scheduled flights to
Montreal and New York.

In Zurich, Swissair an-
-nounced it ‘is temporarily
grounding its nine be- -108 for
inspections.

Bond said ‘the inspection
take about three hours for
each engine. It involves
lifting plates covering the
engine. pylon and removing
the questioned bolt.

Bond said that while
special inspections have
been ordered before, it is the
first time a large ‘com:
mercial airliner has faced a
possible grounding order,

Bond also stressed that the
grounding and inspection
order does not indicate that
the investigation into the

Civic workers giving

Cranbrook a warning

CRANBROOK, B.C. (CP)
—- More than’ 100 civic
workera, members of the

Canadian Union of Public

Employees, were in a legal
ion. to strike Monday.
The union served 72-hour

‘strike notice Friday after a-

breakdown In contract talks
with the. clty, Tha workers
have been without a contract
aince Feb, 28.

Chief union " negotlator
Clarence Lecombe said the
workers will remaln on the

fob until it is learned how
mediation talks are going

with two other municipal. -
* itles in the area, He said if

talks go well, they ‘could
have a bearing on the
Cranbrook dispute,

FEVER SPREADS

The album soundtrack
from the movie Saturday
Night Fever has sold more
than’ a million copies in
Canada alone.

seit RTE JBIRTHD.Ap “ip

- May 16, 23 atid
Gel r May 3

‘vestigation of this accident to this problem. But it is a

woman from Arrow Lake, B.C, with a rare passion for
photography. She took pictures of the life around her
from 1890 to 1920. By accident her old glass plate
negatives were discovered in a shed under.a rat's fest.
sleet the Kitimat Museum ie years to: ' Bet this
collection, .

Chicago crash is over. —. notmean toimply that this is Pp ho to dis S play
“The inspection and in- necessarily the final solutlen
Presently on. display at the Kitimat Museum are the

will continue,” he said, “I do cleat beginning link to tt. ” photos by Mattie Gunterman. Matte Was a pioneer

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