CRANBROOK CRASH Report says some should have lived | CALGARY (CP) —- Some of the 43 persons who died in the crash of a Pacific Western Airlines jet aircraft at Cranbrook, B.C., last February could have been saved if firefighting facilities had been adequate, says a ministry of transport (MoT) report on the crash obtained by The Herald, The newspaper reports ministry investigators as saying in a conditional draft of the official report that a number of passengers survived the Feb. 11 crash of the Boeing 737 but suc- cumbed to toxic fumes and fire. Some could have been’ saved if proper resuscitation equipment and sufficient personnel with appropriate training had been available, says the draft. . One stewardess and five passengers survived. Most of the passengers were killed by the impact of the crash, says the report. It says rescue efforts were hampered because a fire- fighting vehicle capable of negotiating deep snow was not available. W. A. Fawcett, the ministry's chief of aviation safety investigation, said in an interview the report is not expected to be officially released until sometime in the new year. The con- ditional draft was sent to parties who had influence over the operation of the Boeing 737 or air traffic facilities connected with the crash. Fawcett said the involved parties are expected to report any factual errors in the draft but he doesn't expect many changes for the tinal report. At an inquest into the erash last May, George Grimstad, Cranbrook air- port fire chief, said his facilities were far below what ministry regulations required. Grimstad said the airport should have 11 firefighters, one truck with a 1,000-gallon foam capacity and one truck... carrying 1,000 pounds of chemical fire retardant. At the time of the crash the airport had one firefighter (Grimstad) and one 1,000-. pound dry chemical truck. The Cranbrook and Kimberley fire departments arrived about 20 minutes after the crash but the report says it was an hour before a road was cleared through snow so equipment could be used. Both city fire depart- ments had to travel about 1¢ miles along winding roads to get to the airport. Firefighting facilities at the Cranbrook airport have been upgraded since the crash. There now are eight firefighters and a foam truck in addition to the chemical truck, The report cites several in- stances of weak regulations, primarily in the area of poor communications, that contributed to the crash. It says air trafffe and air- worthiness regulations have Since been Upgraded and may prevent a recurrence. The report says the crash took place after the pilot tried to abort a landing to avoid a snow sweeper on the runway. That was the same conclusion reached by a WORK SHOE H.0.’s We carry. Work, Sport, sately and Leisure Boots and Shoes We are Factory trained fitting Specialists. 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Thereport cbtained by The Herald says regulations for thrust reverser design on the Boeing 737 are inadequate, The design does not adequately take into account the possibility of an aborted landing after reverse thrust has been applied, The inquest jury criticized PWA pilot Chris Miles for at- tempting an aborted landing after deploying reverse thrust, a manoeuvre the 737 pilot’s’ manual warns against, But the ministry report said the attempted aborted landing was probably ‘'a reflex action’’ and Miles may have been confused by sections of the manual dealing with reverse thrust. Although technically correct, provisions of the Boeing 737 operations manual relating to thrust reversers could be mis- leading to a pilot. Investigators say the PWA flight .crew faced an unusual sel of circumstances. ; The aborted landing after touchdown and reverse thrust initiation, being an abnormal manoeuvre against which a caution had been issued, was not provided for in the plane op- erating manual or in training. seme a Investigators found two other PWA pilots who had successfully aborted lan- dings because of slippery runways after applying reverse thrust. The two incidents were nat reported but the ministry report speculates Miles may have heard about them and that information, coupled with the confusion in the manual, led him to believe it was a safe manceuvre. The report said the estimated time of arrival for noRoR . an TI w =i ag =. a AN a POO Tel Directory. cerececenaticenatatataratetet tate avalecetetecesatatetatatas sae SR ROR 2%, ST aN ' : “e We're Listed Here! 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Reporting by pilots to their companies or to the ministry of transport has been’ sporadic and there is no system for collecting the information, The report criticized the pilot for not radicing Cranbrook when he began his final approach to the airport. The Cranbrook air radio operator and the snow sweeper driver both ex- pected the flight would report, thus giving the vehicle operator about seven minutes to get off the run- way, Without the expected report Cranbrook airport personnel believed the plane would land 10 minutes later Uhan it actually did. The report also criticizes Miles for chatting to another pilot on. the PWA radio frequency at the same time as the first officer was receiving a weather report ‘and-the information from Cranbrook airport that the snow sweeper was on the runway, Kt notes that First Officer PeterYanOort |. \ acknowledged receiving the runway conditions report: but that is no guarantee he heard the part of the mes- sage about the snow sweeper or that, if he did, he passed the information on to Miles. “The failure to report on final approach and the‘ un- necessary chatter on company frequency represent an unacceptable standard of cockpit practice and discipline.” The report says regulations covering thrust reverser design should be changed. “The ability to abort a. landing even after touch- .down would seem to be a desirable, if not essential, - feature,”’ The report. says United States Federal . Aviation Administration standards in the area of aberted landings and thrust reversers must be considered either inadequate or ill-defined. Three soldiers shot in Ireland CROSSMAGLEN (Reuter) — Three British soldiers were shol to death on the main street of this border village Thursday in the bloodiest attack on British forces in Northern Ireland in almost three years. Witnesses said the back foors..of a red van were “thrown open and gunmen aimed heavy bursts of machine-gun fire af a six- man foot patrol of the elite Grenadier Guards. Three soldiers were dead: by the time helicopters ferried them to a hospital in Belfast from this staunchly anti-British village. It brought to 14 the number of British soldiers killed in Northern Ireland this year. 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TERRACE-KITIMAT : SECOND daily heral SECTION Ls y, OF TALKS Clean air subject OTTAWA (CP) Washington and Ottawa have begun talks on a Canada-U.S. clean air treaty that would act as a diplomatic umbrella for cross-border disputes, _ Ray Robinson, a senior environment department official, says negotiators are scrutinizing air pollution from two angles—a treaty to deal with local trans- boundary problems and a longer-term effort to cope sulphur dioxide Robinson and external affairs officials stressed in recent interviews that discussions are only at an early stage and negotiators have not decided what principles they want in the agreement, ~ Behind the discussions are local irritants such as sulphur dioxide emissions from Canadian thermal power plants along the border at Atikokan in nor- thwestern Ontario and Poplar River in Saskat- chewan. 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