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A5 The Sun TUESDAY, August 18, 1987 DETROIT CRASH: Investigation begins A The Sun TUESDAY, August 18, 1987 A4 1 NATION FAA planned warninj Budget deficit set at $158 billion aC ators have modified others in an attempt the downward revision. ancing law or the $108 billion one for next year. The new estimate is down from the $173.2 billion deficit the administration had projected for fiscal 1987 when President Reagan submitted his 1988 budget to Congress in January. Fiscal 1987 ends Sept. 30.

A tax-revenue windfall, due to tax code changes that took effect on Jan. 1, was credited for most of The new estimate projects $16.1 billion more in 1987 revenues than the White House had envisioned in January. Overall, the budget office said 1987 receipts would be $858.5 billion while spending would be $1,017 trillion. The OMB, in its annual mid-session review of the budget, predicted the deficit would rise in 1988 to $161.4 billion. anti-rotation pins on a Pacific Southwest Airlines plane in March 1985, and a Muse Airlines plane in December 1986.

The string of failures caused the FAA to issue an airworthiness directive in late 1986 requiring replacement of the pins with stronger pins. The April NTSB letter said 12 U.S. and 14 foreign airlines are operating 330 MD-80 series airplanes, "many of which are potential candidates (for) this type of engine failure." As of last April, 934 JT8D-200 series engines had been manufactured by Pratt Whitney since the engine was certified and entered service in 1980, making it the world's most widely used commercial jet engine. Engineering changes were incorporated in some of those engines, and oper flight experienced a surge and loss of power in one of its engines while descending to land. The engine was shut down and the plane, a McDonnell Douglas I) -82, landed safely.

An inspection revealed a 15-inch by 1 12-inch tear in one area of the cowling (the engine's metal covering), and bulging in the covering of another area. All 44 pins used to lock stationary vanes to the outer circumference of the turbine case had fractured. The Pratt Whitney JT8D engine was involved in a similar incident after an American Airlines flight in December 1986, when again all 44 anti-rotation pins fractured but were discovered during repairs before they had broken loose. The NTSB reported other problems with the to reduce the risk of anti-rotation pin; failure. The NTSB letter said vane-cluster and anti-rotation pin failures could not be predicted without on-wing tope (X-ray) inspection or engine disasn sembly, and asked the FAA to "take im-j mediate and appropriate action." The FAA wrote back on May 29r, agreeing to begin safety inspections of all JT8D 200-series engines that had not, already undergone field after a review of the engine series' "serv-fl ice history and engine timecycle data rel-; ative to antirotation pin breakage." The FAA issued a "proposed rule- making" on July 29 calling for the man-datory periodic inspections.

Gannett News Service DETROIT Because of at least four known engine failures, the Federal Aviation Administration planned to begin regular safety inspections next month on antirotation pins in Pratt Whitney engines like those on the Northwest airliner that crashed near Detroit Metro Airport Sunday night. The rule requiring the inspections will go into effect Sept. 22, at the end of a statutory 60-day public-comment period. The mandatory inspections of the engine, Model JT8D-217A, were requested by the National Transportation Safety Board in a letter dated April 28, 1987. The letter described a March 23, 1987 incident in which an American Airlines tins woo, 3hz waxmtfi and hautu of fit U.S.

studies arms sales to Saudi Arabia WASHINGTON (AP) With Congress in summer recess, the Reagan administration on Monday was putting together a new U.S. arms sales package for Saudi Arabia that is likely to include 1,600 Maverick antitank missiles and be worth about $1 billion. The deal is bound to arouse opposition from Israel's supporters and others who question the Saudis' commitment to U.S. Middle East policy. Sen.

Claiborne Pell, chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, immediately raised objections as word of the package spread. "In light of recent controversies, the direction and content of the arms sale relationship with Saudi Arabia is in urgent need of review," Pell said in a statement released by his office. Congress has the power to veto any sizable purchase of U.S. arms by foreign countries. Last spring, confronted by overwhelming opposition in both the Senate and House, President Reagan WASHINGTON (AP) The Reagan administration estimated Monday the federal budget deficit, helped by a one-time-only tax windfall, will ease to $158.4 billion this year, down sharply from last year's record $220.7 billion.

But the White House Office of Management and Budget said the deficit would creep up again in 1988-89 in the absence of congressional action to further reduce the gap between receipts and spending. Even so, the administration's new forecast of a $161.4 billion deficit in 1988 and a $165.9 billion shortfall in 1989 was far more optimistic than those of private and congressional economists. "The estimated 1987 deficit shows a record reduction of $62.3 billion from 1986 and declines to 3.6 percent of the gross national product from more than 5 percent in each of the four preceding years," the office said. The new OMB report made official what administration and congressional leaders have known for some time: There is no way of meeting the $144 billion deficit target for this year set in the Gramm-Rudman budget-bal Car breakdown prevents brothers from taking flight MAYVILLE, Mich. A California man said Monday he and his brother missed Northwest Airlines Flight 255 when their parents' car broke down about 15 miles from the airport.

And Detroit Lions wide receiver Pete Mandley said his wife and two children had reservations on Flight 255, which crashed after taking off from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing at least 154 people. Mandley's family decided Sunday to stay in Michigan another day. David McKellar and his brother, Robert, were visiting relatives in May-ville, about 70 miles from the airport. Their parents, Roger and Phyllis McKellar, were driving the brothers to the airport when a radiator hose failed. "We went to a gas station, trying to find a hose so we could get going," McKellar, 27, of Dana Point, said Monday from his parents' home.

"It took a little longer than we thought." The family learned the flight had crashed when they arrived at the airport, an hour after the crash, he said. Phoenix Suns center among crash victims PHOENIX, Ariz. Phoenix Suns center Nick Vanos, a crowd pleaser and likely starter next basketball season, was mourned Monday by relatives, fans and team officials as they learned he was among the more than 150 victims of a plane crash. FRENCH DOORS WINDOWS to ttfitace. aluminum or otftti zxii.tinq California student's doois.

and windows. m. i parents fly to Detroit Sen. Claiborne Pell Questions Saudi transaction was forced to abandon a $360 million sale of Mavericks and a plan to replace F-15 fighter jets the Saudis had lost in accidents. The congressional opposition had stiffened after reports the Saudi air force did not aid the USS Stark when it was attacked by an Iraqi jet May 17.

The administration insisted the attack, in which 37 U.S. sailors died, was inadvertent and the Saudi response was proper and prompt. Ex-nurse's aide says he killed more than 50 CINCINNATI A former nurse's aide charged in the death of one critically ill man has confessed to killing more than 50 patients at area hospitals, according to a television news report Monday night. WCPO-TV reported sources close to an investigation said Donald Harvey admitted to police investigators he was responsible for more than 50 deaths. The station last week said grand jury testimony was confined to 34 deaths because Harvey could not remember pertinent information about the rest of the alleged victims and because some of the deaths occurred outside Hamilton County.

The sources did not say how many deaths may have occurred outside the county, or where they may have occurred. Harvey, who already faces one murder charge, is expected to face additional charges today, said his lawyer, William P. Whalen. Fire forces 300 to evacuate hotel MIAMI A two-alarm fire in the downtown Omni Hotel forced the evacuation of about 300 people from the high-rise building Monday night, a fire official said. Three people, including one firefighter, were slightly injured, officials said.

The fire broke out in a linen closet on the sixth floor of the 20-story building, and the first call to the Miami Fire Department was made at 7:34 p.m., said Lt. Daniel Pilger, adding blazing linen created heavy smoke. The first truck arrived three minutes later, and the fire was declared under control at 8:15 p.m., he said. Pilger said he had no detailed information on how the fire started at the hotel on Bis-cayneBay. Tim Lanham, another fire department spokesman, said most of the guests were allowed to return to their rooms shortly after the fire was extinguished.

i From Sun News Services IRS faulted for fund seizure, penalty school as "just a very all-around good student," an outgoing, bubbly blonde on the school pep squad and an aide in the attendance office. io "She was willing to help out in any way she could," said Steve Pavich, assis-: tant principal at Costa Mesa High' School. "She had a lot of school spirit." Pavich said Hidi was to have begun her senior year Sept. 14. Hidi left a recorded message on hei answering machine in Santa Ana.

"Hi there. I'm on vacation until August 16, but I'd love to hear from the cheerful voice on the recording said, Hidi's recorded message gave an ad; dress and telephone number in North-' wood, Ohio for people who wanted to get in touch with her. A man who answered the phone at the Ohio number would say only, "No comment" SANTA ANA (AP) The parents of a 16-year-old cheerleader who was expected to arrive home on Northwest Airlines' Flight 255 rushed to Detroit on Monday after the jetliner crashed on takeoff, killing at least 154 people. Mary Ann and Orville Ratliff of Santa Ana were among several California residents who were flown to Detroit by the airline after coming to John Wayne Airport in Orange County Sunday night to pick up passengers on Flight 255. The flight originated in Saginaw, and crashed after stopping at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport.

Most of the passengers were headed to Phoenix. About a dozen were ticketed through to California, said airline spokesman Redmond Tyler. The Ratliff daughter, Hidi, was described by an administrator at her high the IRS learned of his Keogh account and, in 1981, directed his bank to seize $22,341 of it. After auditing his 1981 tax return, the agency determined Larotonda had failed to list the $22,341 as income and sent him a bill for $11,796 plus penalties. lar to an Individual Retirement Account.

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Tax Court agreed with the IRS that Larotonda, a Miami lawyer, would have to pay tax immediately on the seized account. But to impose a 10 percent penalty for early withdrawal "would be like throwing salt into a wound," the court held. In a decision made public Monday, the court also overturned an IRS effort to hit Larotonda with a negligence penalty for failing to include the seized account as income on his tax return. In 1976, Larotonda set up a Keogh retirement account, a plan for the self-employed that is simi- 1 Wk Based on eyewitness reports CL I g. Smith Rd.

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passengers and six crew members sur-. vived the crash, the airline said Monday afternoon. Four-year-old Cecilia Cichan was recovering from burns in a Detroit area hospital. At least two people on the ground died when the wreckage' screamed through a railroad overpass and onto the busy freeway. The embankment was still grassy on' one side, but the other was charred, as if a fiery hand swept it clean.

Blank stares masked the faces of fire-4 fighters, police and others at the grim scene as they struggled to keep working Borycz, a Roman Catholic priest, founds himself comforting some of them whep the weight of death became too great. IJ "You can't deal with this hour after; hour. All you can do is give somebody aj pat on the back and let them know you'r here," he said. Helicopters occasionally moveJ above the scene. Television crews, porters, photographers and others werejj ROMULUS, Mich.

(AP) The Rev. Edmund Borycz spent 13 hours praying over the dead and letting the living, mostly police and rescue workers, know he was there. It was all he could do. On Monday, there was no rescue work to be done. Only horror and the stench of aviation fuel remained.

Yellow death blankets dotted the road. The plane left behind a bed of debris as it plunged down a road soon after taking off from Detroit Metropolitan Airport. A brown suitcase, battered, lay on Middlebelt Road in front of the Interstate 94 overpass. Behind it was gnarled, twisted, charred rubble, much of it the front section of the airplane silver white with blue stripes but no longer much resembling an aircraft. "It's utter devastation.

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But what can you do, if you want to go somewhere?" At some airport counters, passengers asked what kind of plane would be used-for their flight. One passenger asked if the 1:15 p.m. flight to Phoenix was utilizing the same DC-9M D-80 aircraft that crashed. Cindy Beltz, manager for the Seven Seas Travel Agency in East Detroit. "I think it's going to take several months for Northwest to undo the damage to its image." At Metropolitan Airport Monday, those passengers who decided to proceed with their Northwest travel plans praised airline employees for helping ease their fears.

But many expressed frustrations at huge traffic jams leading to the airport and long lines at ticket counters. "Yeah, I was worried, and I could tell my 10-year-old, James, was very frightened," said Barbara Denton of Minneapolis. "I mean how could you not be, when you arrive at the airport and everybody is reading newspapers with headlines about all the people who died in the crash? But the Northwest employees By BRUCE ALPERT Gannett News Service DETROIT Some Northwest Airlines passengers figured that disaster couldn't strike twice and stuck with the airline Monday, but others canceled flights following Sunday's tragic crash of Flight 255. "These sort of things happen," said Joe Ulrey of Dearborn, before boarding an afternoon flight Monday to Phoenix. "But I think they'll be extra careful today and I'm not too worried." Northwest officials gave no numbers on no-shows Monday, but one travel agency said by midafternoon eight customers had phoned in cancellations and five others requested their tickets on the airline be switched to other carriers.

"They are just scared to death," said At 7 am. Monday, there weren't enough barstools in one lounge at Metr Airport to seat all the businessmen watching newsreels of Northwest FlighJ 255 burn. Half of them stood outside the! bar, politely sipping coffee. Two of men drank Bloody Marys. ffl They were getting ready to fly NorthJ-west, and some looked nervous.

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Northwest Airlines Flight 255 on Sunday night tore off the top of the two-story building on its plunge to earth just after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport. At least 154 people died, two of them in a truck on the ground. "It was already on fire," she said. "I saw a wing fall. It was so close.

I could see the windows. Those windows keep bothering me." Jim Fontana, the Avis manager, was in his office when the building began to shake. "It shakes like that every day," he said. "But then it shook more and more. And then, boom, boom, boom.

If the plane were 10 feet lower, I would have been torched." In the Avis parking lot, about 10 employees were cleaning cars and pumping gas. "Suddenly, everything went orange," said Jeff Williams. "We knew a plane went down. It was like lightning. It lit up the sky." Pamela Galvin of Romulus, is a waitress at a motel less than a mile from the site.

"We could hear the passengers screaming from the outside," she said. "It wasn't even a block away. It was horrible. Oh God, it was awful." Galvin said there was nothing anyone could do because of the fire. By the time the rescue workers arrived, the screaming had stopped.

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