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2 DAILY NEWS Sunday. May 1, 1988 fl sr illinp' CSJgHlfc 7 1. "lip By PAUL MESKIL 9 workers at airport in Hawaii lead passengers to emergency chute slide AFTER SKY NIGHTMARE: Rescue run JL 7(MK Dly News Staff nt If Gov. Cuomo is involved in a real estate deal, it's no big deal, his aides said yesterday. But the Hollis.

Queens, neighborhood where the governor and his wife have lived for 30 years was buzzing with rumors that the Cuomos have found a buyer for their four-bedroom house on Pompeii Ave. Neighbors said the Cuomos bought the house in 1953 for $40,000 and have been asking more than $300,000 for it "No sale has been completed," a Cuomo spokes-man said yesterday. "That's all there is to say." Other aides said the sale, when and if it is made, is a private matter that has nothing to do with the governor's official duties. Since the Cuomos moved into the 40-room Executive Mansion in Albany five years ago, they have not used the Hollis house often. If it is sold soon, Mario and Matilda Cuomo are expected to transfer their legal address to the nearby Hollis home of his 87-year-old mother, Immaculata Cuomo.

Cuomo, who grew up in Jamaica, Is a lifelong Queens resident Stanford Samson, 45, a supervisor for the GTE Hawaiian telephone company, was aboard Aloha Airlines Flight 243 Thursday when the the roof blew off, sweeping away a flight attendant and turning the routine flight into a ride of terror. Samson was flying home to Honolulu among 89 passengers and a crew of four when the unbelievable occurred almost five miles above the island of Maui. Here is his story: By STANFORD SAMSON Special to Th tows I was sitting on the left side over the wing reading a book and having a beer when whoof! the roof flew off. The book went and the beer went They disappeared. They're someplace out there in the ocean.

FAA loivcrs cclllnrj fcr 737o KAHULUI, Hawaii The government barred aging Boeing 737s from flying above 23,000 feet yesterday following the possible structural failure in the Aloha Airlines jetliner that blew open at 24,000 feet last week. -o Aloha grounded its three remaining Boeing 737s of similar age Friday and Boeing Commercial Airplanes revealed that the damaged jetliner was one of its oldest 737-200s, in service since 18C9. The company told airline to inspect their aging 737s. The Federal Aviation Administration yesterday issued an emergency order barring older 737s from flying above 23.000 feet if they have had more than 55,000 landings. FAA spokesman Fred Farrar said the order would affect 66 planes in the 737-100 and 737-200 series.

The jets are owned by Aloha, Piedmont and American airlines, he said. The plane, with 89 passengers and five crew members, was on an interisland bop from Hilo to Honolulu when an explosion peeled back 20 feet of its upper fuselage behind the front passenger door. Flight attendant Clarabelle Lansing, 57, was apparently Bucked out of the cabin to her death, and 61 people were injured. TkctowtaMPrtM VV" after heavily damage craft landed. I was Amiko, but I don't know her last name.

I don't think I'll be flying in the near future. If God wanted me to fly he'd give me wings. It's an experience. No matter how much I talk, you had to have experienced it to believe what happened. People were saying it was an explosion.

I don't think it was an explosion. I think it was the top ripping off. I'm sorry that we might have lost a stewardess. At home on Hinano St. in Honolulu, Samson was surrounded by his family his wife, Linda; daughters, Lisa, Tina, Dana and Gina, and son, Sean.

They're glad I'm back. IVe talked to everybody except God. He hasn't called but everybody else has. I'm going to enjoy that beer that went out the roof. I lost a dollar on that Xlt llilli INDEX ANN IANDFRS 30 HARVEY ARATON 39 KFN AUIFTTA 23 JOAN Bt CK 23 BRIDGE 32 UINt 18-21 crrr uomts 24-28 RMA ROM HECK 34 CROSSWORD 35 Jf ANf DIXON 30 tprrowAt 22 PIUC.AU0 44 MOROSOPf 30.35 JUMH1F 32 justicf story 31 CHAR! KRAUTWAMMf 23 Cf AH AHHV 34 M'WFLUPICA 4Q lZ SMITH 10 WT 36 SUNDAY PtOPIC 11 TWAVH 15-17 TV LISTINGS 29 yourself think.

Look up and you saw sky. I looked out the window and saw clouds. And only God was above us. There was money on the floor. It went rushing up and out under the seats, too.

The stewardess had been serving and I think that was the mon- ey. Wind was rushing everywhere. I saw the stewardess walking toward me from the front. When that thing blew up I put my head down right away and when I looked up again she wasn't there. I heard another stewardess was sliding on the floor and a guy grabbed her and put her next to the seat The passengers were very calm.

There was some screaming but they didn't panic. When we found out we were still flying after about five minutes we calmed down. You couldn't hear anything in that plane because of the wind. I had to grab the people beside me by the head and scream at them to make myself heard. The problem was the fiberglass flying around.

I still have some in my eyes, I think. If you looked up it hit you in I had gone to Hilo to work and was going home to Honolulu. It was a normal flight at first We took off on time. We were still climbing when it happened. I was sitting three rows from where the rip ended.

All I heard was a loud whooooof! I looked up and all I could see was the sky. I thought because the roof ripped off that's it! You got wind, air blowing through, things flying all over the place. Metal pieces, fiberglass, wood. I couldn't think what happened! I thought, this is it! You see it in the movies. I said: "Oh, no!" We were so high.

I told people sitting on both sides of me (I was in the center): "Let's put our life vests on." If we were going to hit the water we should put them on. I told them just be calm. I kept them from looking. They were an elderly man and an elderly woman. The man was asleep.

The lady on the right was about to go to sleep. The man woke up and looked. The suction was so great it sucked the eyeglasses right off his head. I had my arms around both of them. You couldnt hear the eye.

It was from the plane, insulation I think. Plus metal and wood whatever was used in the plane. It was debris. All I did was' look out And then I saw land and I thought I didn't care if the pilot took it into the ocean- if we were close to land. It took an eternity to get down.

It took 10 to 15 minutes to reach land. But he took it down and landed and he did a hell of a job. After we landed we saw all kinds of injuries facial, body. I don't think they could tell you how they got hurt The pilot stayed inside with the injured people. I took the two elderly people but with me.

The woman was hurt She'd had an operation recently and I think bending over in her seat didn't help. The man wasn't hurt, just in a daze. Bill Araki was his name and the woman's first name WEATHER Partly sunny with a shower. High 60-65. Details mm4 Lotto VltlCJ? DUW.d by fr York Nw Jot.

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