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IW Star May 16, t968 I Airliner Crash Near Falls City Is Blamed On Turbulence 1 T'kntf nt Burma Cyclone Dead Said 800 a i 1 0 Oov-, eminent Investigators concluded Wednesday the concluded Wednesday the fatal crash of a Braniff Airways plane near Falls City, Aim fi. 1966. probably was and by the Union. All .18 passengers and four crew members aboard the Rritlsh-bullt BAC Ml Jet were killed. The National Transportation Safety Board found that the plane, on the Kansas City- Omaha leg of a New Orleans -1 Minneapolis flight, had been i flown into "an area of avoid -1 Car-Cycle Crash Injures NU, Coed A University of Nebraska coed suffered leg cuts Tuesday evening when an auto collitied with the nioiiircycle on which she was ruling at and Calvert, police said.

Police said Judy Huetson, no NU sophomore from Cortland. received cuts to the left knee and upjier thigh requir- mc tw stitches. She was Wednesday to have been li ansferred from Lincoln (ien- eral Hospital to the Univer- I Health Center on the campus i Miss Huetson was injured, police said, when a car driven by Kathryne J. Kingcry, .19, of 3606 Stockwell collided with the motorcycle which was driven bv Monte L. Haeffner, i 25, of 2724 S.

I Police said the Kingery ve- hide was westbound on Cal' vert and the motorcycle south- baund on at the time of the mishap. able hazardous 'Squall The flight path took it across a severe line. miles long, which the board said had been adequately foreca.st and reported by the Weather Bureau. the inten.sity of the weather system which crossed the intended route appears to have been under- rated by airline personnel responsible for forecasting the weather and dispatching the the board said. It added: 1.

forecast of the weather, contrasted with that of the Weather Bureau, was "somewhat Inaccurate with respect to the number and Intensity of thunderstorms and the Intensity of the assoriated 2. The crew was aware of the forecast weather. The pilot expressed concern about the weather even before leaving New iirleans, but did not use facilities available to him at Kansas City for a formal weather briefing. Tape recovered from the cockpit voice recorder showed that the copilot had suggested flying around the storm system. 3.

Because the Braniff forcca.st did not predict a solid line of thunderstorms, the company dispatcher took no action to delay or to reroute the flight. The dispatcher failed to ad- vi.se the pilot that another Braniff flight in the area had diverted, and that the takeoff of still another had been delayed by an hour to avoid the squall line. 4. The pilot chose penetrate the squall line at his altitude of 5,000 feet, using his airborne weather radar to select relatively clear area in spite of his earlier concern over the 'weather and hfs knowledge that the squall line was quite solid. 5.

The plane apparently encountered a gust generated by strong horizontal and vertical wind shears, moving at a large angle to the flight course. TTiese forces and accelerations tore off the tail section and then the right wing The airline and the Air Line Pilots Association, had advanced a theory that the rudder mechanism failed to function properly, permitting an inadvertent full left application of the rudder by the They said a number of BAC Ml directional control incidents occurred a year after the accident because sticking feel control valves, and 29 cases of sticking values had been reported. Rangoon, Burma (UPI) Reports reaching Rangoon Wednesday said more than Bay of Bengal coast last Friday and Saturday. The reports said thousands more were left homeless In 800 persons lost their lives In Akyab town and the surroun a cyclone which 1 a i ding area. The Safety Board said a joint Federal Aviation Ad- mlnlstratlon-lndnstry team established to study t.h problem found only one documented case of a sticking value, and no case of an flight loss of rudder feel.

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