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Two Terrace victims
“among dead on flight

Two Terrace residents were among seven people killed

yesterday morning when a Skylink Airlines flight from -
Vancouver crashed and burned’ just south’ of the _

Terrace-Kitimat airport.:

Dead are Barry. Nikal, : 13,
-and his step-mother Karen Pe- .
_ quin-Jones; 41. At press time
~ yesterday RCMP had not. re-
‘leased ‘the names of the three

other passengers or the two ~

. flight crew members who died in
the accident.
‘ment Cpl. Don Cann did: say,
however, that Nikal and Pe-'
_ quiti-Jones were the only 'Ter-
‘race residents on board the 18-.
passenger Metro Ii. aircraft.
Sources at the airport indicate
visibility was‘ poor at the time
the-planie attempted to land. Fog.
‘began forming: about 8 a.m.,.
ageravating smoke conditions
from controlled burns set on.
clear-cut logging sites near the

‘airport, The first alarm came in

at 8:26 a.m., and the burning

- wreckage of the- aircraft was

discovered about one kilometer
south of ‘the end. of runway
‘15-33. Transport Canada, would
not confirm. reports that the
aircraft was on its second ap-
proach when it crashed, -The
position of the wreckage tends

" to indicate the flight approached

from the north, failed to land,
and went down after flying over

Terrace detach- —
diately - and an investigation —

“team-from’ the Cariadian Avia: -
tion- Safety Board was-on the

‘the runway.

A foam ‘track from ‘the ¢ air-

‘port, two pumpers from Thorn-
‘hill and a, rescue truck. from the
Terrace Fire Department were
called out.

‘All seven: victims died on im-
pact.;
The area was sealed ‘off imme-

scene. by early afternoon. The
. accident is also being investi-
gated by Terrace. coroner jim
Lynch,

. When asked if smoke from

. slash burning in the area was a

factor in the crash, Transport
Canada representative Michel-
ine Brodeur said it will be exam-
ined in the course of the investi-
gation.

Skylink Airlines started a.

daily service between Terrace
and Vancouver more than a year
ago. - Last spring Transport
Canada charged the company
with more than 70 violations of
air transport regulations over a
two-month period.

Skylink representatives were
not -available for comment at
press time.

Poll pulls Chamber

A telephone poll of 366 honies

‘wanga :to Hazelton and ‘Nass

“Valley to Cassiar areas has
_ "prompted Bob Park, : president
of the
_. «Chamber of Commerce, to ad-
‘vise Terrace city council that
Sunday, ‘shopping holds a great
’ .economic benefit for Terrace.

Terrace. and

Based on that fact,” writes

‘ Park, “tit is the recommendation.
“from the Chamber executive -
“that council ‘not’ pursue adop-
‘ting the -present proposal to.
-create’ a: bylaw which would
‘tegulate shop closing hours on
': Sunday.”

_The area polled by the Cham.

“in the Kitimat to Kemano, Kit- |

Distiict.

to Sunday shopping

ber of Commerce involves 6,428
households and Park claims that
information collected from
about 5.5° percent. of these
homes - provides a level of 95

‘sults, Their findings indicate
‘that 57 percent of'the families in
outlying areas of Terrace shop
.here once.every month, seven
percent shop i in Terrace Sundays
only, and 14 percent spend over
$400 each trip. Also, 51 percent
of those surveyéd stated Sunday
shopping was a benefit and 21
percent said they spend. more
money in Terrace since Sunday
shopping came into effect.

percent. confidence in the re-.

Pal sae

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Parliament Buildings,
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1989
"Vol. 5, Assug, No. cn

Phone. 635-7840.
“Fax . 635-7269

Little remains of Skylink flight 070 but twisted shreds of metal. The twin-engine Swearingen.
Metroliner {1 cut a swath In the bush about 100 meters long when it crashed and burned

_ shortly before 8:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, killing all seven on board. The aircraft was ap: .

- proaching runway 15-33 when It apparently passed over the runway and plowed into a
_ wooded area beside Beam Station Road about a kilometer south of the airport. The only re-
maining identiflable piece is the tail section.

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