Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 11, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba B47 crashed onto n Washington renter a air Force bomber crashed into a a bomb storage shelter at a skew Heath Royal air Force station in Etc gland in nearly causing a radiation a private a wearer group said the Centre for defence a frequent critic of the re ported the aircraft crashed into a Stor age Igloo containing three nuclear each of the bombs held about kilograms of int in its trigger if the explosive could have blown the radioactive warhead material across a wide the Centre said in its account of the it is possible that a part of Eastern England would have become a 6bi quoted an unnamed retired air Force general who was in Britain at the time As saying Heath station is 32 Kilometres East of the defence department had acknowledged last december the crash of a 64 bomber into a nuclear Wea on storage facility on july but identified the location Only As an or mid his groups differing account the Cpl acid pent gun of the danger potential was based 6fl both said the Bember itself was not seven Al to Trees familiar with the Earry Ift midyear be Magol had the Pentagon said if its tent i m the Entres Repett of the incident there was no real feet rets Early last year retried the danger because neither the tombs fir existence 6f a catalogue of Nti fear the storage Igloo a entailed warheads mishaps and near disasters compiled with nuclear by defence Thomas an analyst with at the the Sites of says some of the incidents which took place outside the were not in the Lakenheath the four Crew members were Gid and the flames of the wreckage were extinguished before they ignited the Gid said there have been Many More nuclear neat mishaps than officials have a photo air safety debate raging Between pilots the los flit let the los Atif tto Washington after Isair plight 262 left Detroit for Washington National Airport Ken Neth Compher gave his 110 passengers the usual weather and route information and As he now does on every one of his added a i just want you to he said Over the dc9s Public address that we Are performing our duties in the cockpit with Confidence in the air traffic comp hers assurances and similar ones Given by airline personnel on Many other flights in the past week Are intended to address a question being asked increasingly by the Public just How Safe is air travel when thousands of air traffic controllers Are on the picket line rather than in the control towers pilots confident a random sampling of More than a dozen commercial pilots interviewed at National Airport brought answers echoing comp hers not one of the pilots interviewed expressed doubts about the safety of the air traffic and some said it was better than before the controllers went on we go up there if we were said Norm also a us air who has flown for 35 we like everyone to think were heroes but were just As Chicken As anyone the striking controllers also Are addressing the question of but coming to dramatically different an Robert president of the professional air traffic controllers or charged in a weekend inter View that blatant safety problems now confront the polls charges Drew a Strong rebuttal from Secretary of transportation Drew who declared that the airways have never been and Dennis spokesman for the Federal aviation said yester Day based on available we have not seen any increase air such incidents As at the private aviation safety inst president John Galipault said that in the first week of the strike his office received 150 reports involving air compared with the 40 re ports normally received per week on the institutes Tollfree hotline num Ber of these Iso Galipault said 25 were confirmed such As two aircraft being assigned to the same Altitude by and nine were near misses confirmed through our Galipault said he has no sympathy with the Patch strike but criticized the Faas assertions that there had been no increase in safety the government is Hood winking the american he the governments own aviation safety reporting which guarantees anonymity to controllers and others who Volunteer written information on near misses and other will not have data on the first week of the strike until at least according to system chief Bill Reyn the run by the space Agency but largely funded by the is based on reports mailed to nasal Mountain offices and the mail has been slowed by the controllers we Haven seen anything yet to indicate an upswing in safety Reynard said in a Telephone but John who Heads a House subcommittee with Over sight responsibilities for said that when Reynard office compiles its i think Well see that things Are not As Jolly As we Are being told they on the eve of the controllers walk the air line pilots association set up its own hot line to receive reports from its members on safety of the John a spokesman for the said weve not gotten any reports of problems developing Mazor declined to divulge How Many reports the association had received from airline Crew members interviewed at National Airport uniformly said they had encountered no and insisted they would take action if they Gander canadians guide flights Ever own air space and Over Atlantic on main routes Between North America and West Swanwick British guide flights Over own air space and Over Atlantic on main routes Between various european do unties and 30d West Iceland 4 azores icelanders and portuguese guide flights in mid Ocean Crossings North and Outh of main new Vor Center Toft Center United states americans guide flights Only Over american air Europe each nations controllers guide flights Over own air map shows air traffic control Points on both sides of Atlantic and regions under their great Circle loss costly Washington a the canal an if traffic controller refusal to Han dle flights Between the United states and Europe is costing the airlines Money As Well As confusion much As a says one flights Between the and Europe normally Fly Over Canada because of a geometrical truth not readily apparent from a Mercator map the shortest distance Between two Points on the surface of a Globe is a great Circle route a route following a track that if extended around the Globe would Divide it in Between Europe and the East coast of the a great Circle crosses new Brunswick and newfound reaching As far North As 50 de Grees to avoid the approximation has to get rougher flights stay More to the James Public relations director for pan american said avoiding Canadian airspace adds a half hour to an hour to a new York London each extra hour in the air costs for fuel and Crew Airey i dont have a death said Dennis an american airlines first my exposure far greater than any passengers the average passenger flies five or six hours a i Fly at least 60 i do it if it we rent id take a leave of absence like All of the pilots inter said he had experienced slight but that the reduced number of flights plus additional spacing be tween aircraft made the skies far less crowded than he has increased most of the pilots interviewed expressed a Lack of support and hostility in some cases toward the actions and the plight of the striking controllers Union change for better Roy a Pilot with Northwest said the Guys who Are in there Are the Guys who care about their theres nothing for anyone to be nervous theres or change in the air traffic environment any change i can see is for the do you know what the change is the change is in theres no arrogance those air control lers think they control the air planes they Arent any More responsible than the Guy who does the maintenance or repairs the or loads on the baggage say nothing of the Guy who flies reagans stand on air strike chills unions in Canada f Washington up the chill from the Reagan administrations Hartline stand against illegally strik ing air traffic controllers is sending Shivers up the backs of both and Canadian labor the american labor movement sees danger that reagans firing of controllers and attempt to de certify their if will whet his appetite to see other unions knuckle fear among Canadian Union leaders that reagans example might Lead to similar moves in dealing with service unions was evident in weekend remarks by prominent Union surely what we dont want in a is another Ronald said Jeanclaude president of the Canadian Union of postal whose members were voting to ratify a contract after a disruptive tonal when workers decide to take he throws them in Parrott told an Ottawa labor we should the worried about this because Canada fuss a tradition of following the United beyond the some Canadian labor leaders sense a greater resolve among in plovers to try to Cut their in currently the most strike bound country to the strikes longer strikes Are becoming in players Are trying to Cut observed Grace president of the Canadian Union of Public employ Uke Hiram i has gone to jail for refusing to obey legislation or court orders ordering her Union Back to work the Leader of the us professional air traffic controllers Robert concedes he misjudged reagans for the first time since the strike started a week poll asked on the weekend Tor amnesty for fired controllers along with a resumption of saying it was a no win situation for both Reagan unflinching but transport Atin Secretary Prew Lewis was saying no amnesty was possible and that pat66 May m longer exist because with people were Likely to have More nonunion members in the bargaining unit than do Union Mem Bers presently a Gallup Poi demonstrated that most Ameri Eins support the Adinion Istref tons the Survey found per cent approved the controllers fir ing while 30 per cent disapproved and the rest had no a smaller majority agreed the striking control lers be the controllers main outside boost has come from As Mem Bers of their Punj Erport Canadian Union refused yesterday to handle flights into or out of the United Reagan and wis Haven relented an Inch from their position that control lers forfeited their jobs when they violated their signed oath not to a presidential spokesman says Reagan remains Tough As nails on officials say they Are waiting to the Canadian government does about the air traffic control lers refusal to perform duties Canadian transport minister Jeanluc Pepin yesterday called the controllers actions completely unacceptable and has threatened fines and jail there is pressure on the Canadian government to follow through on its during the postal for businessmen Allied in the Canadian federation of Independent business praised reagans stand against the controllers and urged it As an example for Ottawa to follow with the postal May lose gains but there is at least equal pressure on Public service unions in both countries to in both Canada and the United states during the last organized labors one major gain has been in organizing Public who make up close to 20 per cent of the work Force in both labor leaders Are strongly Chak legged by the possibility of a supported by the Public in the one area where they have made gains As a result of the controllers on the other the and Canadian government leaders see a Chance to establish credibility As a Tough taking the stand the controllers strike was desertion jul the face of duty has clearly struck a responsive chord among Ameri Zajis and some that contrasts sharply with Canadian prime minister Truie aus when the postal strike that he order the pasties Back to work if he wanted to do answering Njmen Bjers o Mauds for Trudeau conceded that at this particular Ttoe when the Union Leader himself Parrott says that he would rather go to jail Thau obey the Law i dont know How the honorable member could suggest legis lation right now under these Circum Astral Price Breakers Minolta Xum with Lens automatic camera with great handling ease you select the aperture and the Builtin electronic brain automatically sets the shutter full manual override is possible for special compatible with a Complete line of exciting photo accessories 299 Nikon be 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