183 Perish As Plane Crashes in Madrid
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Record sales as shoppers flock to area stores, B1 MIDDLETOWN HOLMDE5L HIGHLANDS Pro football On the court Monmouth College to open ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS Jets defeat Patriots; Giants fall to Raiders. at home against LaSalle. Today's Forecast: Pago B3 Page B3 Rain, extending into tomorrow Complete weather on A2 The Daily VOL. 106 NO. 125 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER . .. SINCE 1878 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1983 .„ 25 CENTS 183 perish as plane crashes in Madrid MADRID, Spain (AP) - An investigation Into the fiery crash ol an Avianca airliner Out killed IBS people could last months but of- ficials said the recovered "black box" might help determine the cause of the disaster. Relatives filed past the remains of scores of unidentified victims laid out in a makeshift morgue Sunday at a Madrid airport hangar. Modesto AURUSIO Go.™ Rico, the special judge named to investigate the crash, said identification of the bodies would take at least 10 days. "It is a difficult lob," be said, "because most of the bodies are charred." The Colombian Boeing 747, on a flight from Paris to Bogota, Col- ombia, smashed into a hilly area and bunt into flames five miles east of Madrid's Barajas airport at 1:04 a.m. Sunday. The crash was one of the 10 wont in aviation history. Only 11 of the 194 people aboard — Including 170 passengers, 20 working crew and four off-duty airline employee* — survived the accident, airport officials said. Four of the survivors were in serious "It was like I was in another READY TO 00 - Space Shuttle Columbia sits on Pad 39-A at world," said Carmen Novoa de AFTERMATH — Overall view ol the Colombian bulldozers yesterday attternoon near Madrid's Kennedy Space Center yesterday ready for the scheduled launch. Gorttch, M, of Venezuela, who Jumbo 747 show* rescuers clearing the debris with airport. Eleven survived the crash, but 183 did not. eseapad with minor injuries. Police said they found her rushing away said controllers lost radio contact tbe crash. he said, and would have improved from the flaming wreckage and with the plane four minutes before "If three of the engines had gone the ability of the plane to fly with crying "747, 747." the accident. out, the pilot could have given full just one engine. "It was aU so fast that it was Space shuttle 1 throttle to the remaining engine and Baron told reporters the cause of Avianca officials said the plane, impossible to explain," she said made it to the airport easily, even later at a hospital the crash was not known and said rented from Scandinavian Airlines tbe investigation could last several from a greater distance than that," System, was scheduled to stop in Mrs. Novoa said tbe Jumbo Jet months. he told The Associated Press in a Madrid and Caracas. Venezuela, and weather eyed started to Jill with smoke after tbe Searchers said they had found the telephone interview. that many of those aboard were crash. "Then I saw a boy who began "Mack box," which records con- French, German and Italian CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. shuttle during a storm because The executive declined to be rain might damage its protective to break a window of tbe plane with versations in the cockpit and infor- citizens. It was not immediately (AP) - With a wary eye on the his feet and I helped him I pushed mation about the airplane's course, identified because he said Avianca known if there were any Americans weather, NASA kept the tiles, high winds might throw it wanted all news about the crash to off course, and clouds might and managed to get out of the plane and officials said it could help aboard. countdown dock ticking toward a and began to run like a crazy determine what caused the crash. come through the company's head- late-morning launch of the shut- obscure visibility should an emergency landing be attemped person. There were unconfirmed reports quarters. Peruvian poet Manuel Scoria — tle Columbia with six astronauts Transportation Minister Enrique considered one of Latin America's and the billion-dollar Spacdab. at tbe Cape or in Europe. that one of the jet's four engines had With fewer than 200 passengers Greene also reported the Baron said radio contact between caught fire, but an Avianca ex- aboard, the weight of the plane was best writers — was among the Officials pUnned to begin load- the plane and tbe control tower was, victims. He was on his way to a ing the ship's tanks with fuel at outlook wasn't much better for ecutive in Bogota said a more probably far below the 600,000 Tuesday, but that clearing con- normal until the crash, although a serious problem would have caused conference in Bogota. S a.m. EST, even though one spokesman at the Barajas tower had pounds considered safe for landing, storm approaching the Cape and ditions were expected Wednesday two others at emergency landing at all three sites. Ttiat raised the sites hi Europe threatened to possibility of a twe-day delay in delay tbe flight. a mission which already has been set back two months by a pair of liftoff was set for 11 a.m., and Suit filed to halt zone change the astronauts were reported p rested and ready for their nine- The space agency has only until BY DANIEL LOWENTRAL that the Neubergers receive the fair day mission working In tbe Dec. 5 to launch Spacelab, be- MIDDLETOWN - The attorney market value for it, Kelly said. The scientific laboratory built and cause several of tbe astronomy representing the Neuberger family, difference between what the donated by Europe The crew Is instruments must be operated in owners of the 124-acre Katherine purchaser would pay to farm it and tnc largest ever launcneo into the dark phase of tbe moon to Neuberger tract, tiled suit recently a developer would pay for a housing orbit and Includes the first Euro- escape Interference from lunar hi Superior Court to prevent the development would be picked up by pean on a U.S. space flight reflection. If Columbia can't get township from invoking a section of the township through long-term NASA was hoping for a break off the ground by then, it must new zoning ordinance as it relates to loans, he added. like tbe one It got oa the shuttle wait until late February, because tbe property. "Tbe Neubergers would still get launch In August, when rain-filled for other experiments sun angles The zoning change would place every penny and the township skies parted for a brief period are bad and the cloud cover is too tbe tract in a newly created zone wouldn't have to worry about over tbe pad and Challenger heavy in December and January. that mandates minimum lot sixes of another 100 homes," Kelly said. "If departed Just 17 minutes late. As experts watched the two acres rather than one acre. Its we acquired it with Green Acres "If you don't fuel the tanks and weather, the countdown was pro- purpose Is to reduce tbe density of funding, we have to pay mainten- keep the count going, you don't gressing so weU that one official development. ance fees. This (development give yourself a cnanry to launch called it the "smoothest we have In its most simplistic terms, tbe rights) relieves us of the mainten- if the weather tarns good," NASA had in the shuttle program." new zoning ordinance would cut in ance problem and leaves it on the spokesman Mark Bess said Sun- The astronauts, divided into half the number of lots the tract tax rolls." two teams, have been sleeping could be subdivided, Chester Apy, Kelly wrote the other commit- The launch team would not and eating at different noun to attorney for the Neubergers, said teemen with the idea earlier this have much leeway today. The prepare for the first around-the- last night. month. He also suggested the town- liftoff period lasts only 14 clock operation hi space. Each But the suit claims the new zone, ship approach the county and minutes - until 11:14 a.m- team will work a 11-hour shift. R-90, does not meet tbe standards of Holmdel about jointly trying to beeaase of a requirement for Commanding the mission Is the township's master plan, Apy RICHARD KELLY CHESTER APY acquire the development rights of daylight at the two European John Young, 5S, making a said. would be suitable for that purpose. the Bamm Hollow Golf Course. airstrips where Columbia could sixth trip into space. The! pilot iS Rumors about the future of tbe be still refused to name tbe Both the Neuberger tract and the land if tbe astronauts had to abort Brewster Shaw. ». Middletown Lincroft Road tract purchaser. That, he said, probably In a related development, Town- ship Committeeman Richard V. golf course were placed in the R-90 early in the flight. The four who will work in have been abundant. Most recently, would not be revealed until after the zone. Other properties in the new There was potential weather officials at Monmouth Medical beginning of the new year. Kelly will ask the committee tonight Spacelab, which is mounted in to begin researching the possibility zone are the Christian Brothers trouble at both places. Winds up Columbia's cargo bay, are Center, Long Branch, said tbe If Monmouth Medical Center did Academy, Brookdale Community to 10 mph were forecast for the hospital has considered purchasing buy the land for a health care of the township acquiring develop- mission specialists Owen Oar- ment rights to tbe tract.