Crash investigators |
finish local work

TERRACE — As the on-site in-
vestigation of the early morning
Sept. 26 Skylink air crash at the
- Terrace airport winds down, the
‘real work of determining the
cause of the accident has yet to
begin. |
.. The Canadian ‘Aviation Safe-
ty. Board investigator-in-charge,
Roger Ayotte, said yesterday
that many. of the 11-member

investigation team would be —

leaving Terrace and data collec-
tioh would continue from other
sources. :

Ayotte says that to date the
flight voice recorder and flight

data recorder have been re--

covered and sent to Ottawa for
evaluation and both may cor
tain valuable information, that
will ‘assist in ‘determining the
cause. He says. the flight
recorders contain cockpit ‘con-
yersation, voice communica-
tions between the pilots and the
airport, and instrument data
such as altitude and airspeed. In-

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explicably missing from the data
is the compass bearing of the air-
craft at the time of the crash, but
Ayotte says that information is
probably not-importtant in this
investigation. a

Ayoite did indicate, however, |

that the voice recorder, always
valuable in an investigation, will
be “most useful’ in this particu-
lar case. |

As well, a comprehensive
ground and air survey has been
completed of the crash site and
about 35 individual witnesses
have been interviewed. The final
phase of the ‘on-site work, re-
constructing the original air-
craft, as far.as is possible, with
tagged and recorded parts of the
aircraft found at the crash site is

hearing completion’ on the

grounds of the- ‘airport firehall.
In the next phase of the inves-
tigation, Ayotte says, certain
“‘key’? parts, such as engines,
propellors and other pieces of
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number one

culprit, survey says

People living in the Northwest
. have told public health
‘ authorities what their deepest

- concerns are regarding threats to
physical well-being in the region.

Number One on the list, far

ahead .of any others, is the

abusive consumption of alcohol.

Northwest Aims for Health is

a long-term project launched by

the Skeena Health Unit to deter-

mine what health worries the
general public has, compare

‘them to the actual causes of ill-
health and mortality, and then

determine what is to. be. done

with that information in an

overall strategy toward better

community health. —
A key part in creating the

strategy is finding out what the -

‘general public is worried about,
and to get that information the
health unit launched a survey
earlier this year. Forms asking
people to indicate what they
_ think the chief. threats are to the
‘general health of their com-
‘munities were placed in dozens
of locations throughout — the
health unit area — Houston to
the Queen Charlotte Islands and
Kitimat to the Yukon border.
Rose Dreger, a. public health

disease (20 percent),

_ nurse in charge of the project

said last week that 2,300 of the
forms were returned, including
500 from - ‘key informants’’,

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Dreger is still in the process of fj

breaking down the data from the
survey, ‘but there is no question
that alcohol abuse, followed
closely by use of illegal drugs, is
far and away the biggest health
problem seen by the public, both
in the general and key informant
surveys. There was little dif-
ference in the 545 forms re-
turned by Terrace compared to
the overall survey.

Fully 90 percent: of the re-
turned surveys identified alcohol
as the primary threat to health in
the Northwest, Drug abuse came
in second at 65 percent, followed
by mental health problems (55

. percent), .cancer 650 percent),

heart diseasé (35 percent), motor
vehicle. accidents and lung

problems (13 percent) and _sex-
ually transmitted diseases (15
percent), Stroke and sorts of ac-
cidental injury and death other
than those caused by motor
vehicle accidents came in at 10

_percent on the worry chart, and
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The occupant sustained only minor injuries in this fire Saturday that did extensive damage

_ to a house at 4619 Soucie Ave. Fire department Lt. Per Halvorsen said the man dropped a

lighted propane torch on the way out the back door and didn’t notice that it ignited a tar-
paulin. Fourteen firefighters were required to extinguish the blaze. October is Fire Preven-

tlon Month — for the first part in a special series by Terrace Review freelance writer Fae |

Mooney, turn to page 17.

Fulton quick to back Barrett

-Skeena MP Jim Fulton threw

his support behind Dave Barrett.

last week just hours after the
well-known B.C. MP and for-
mer Premier announced he was

running for leadership of the

federal New Democratic Party.
In an interview from Ottawa
Friday afternoon, Fulton told

the Terrace Review that Barrett
“‘will add a lot of excitement, a
needed injection of personality
and political expertise” to the
race.

.. Fulton also said that a full
one-third of the NDP federal
caucus members have told him

they’re going to back Barrett as _
have said.

well, and = others
privately they would vote for
Barrett on a second ballet.

~The NDP leadership conven-
lion to replace the retiring Ed
Broadbent: will take place city
Winnipes Nov. 20.

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