Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 11, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Image takers a Good to newscast depends on How Well camera operators do their jobs exodus Hong Kong residents Are lining up to leave before China takes Over in 1997 soft yourself Grant Lundy has spent years restoring a rundown House easy Marks slump Buster jets easy Marks for Pittsburgh penguins in 51 loss 741 weather Clouds today 2 Clouds tonight 12 Clouds tomorrow 2 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Ann Landers 38 answers 65 Bingo Bridge 8 business careers 39 classified comics 8 crossword 8 deaths 2 54 editorials 20 entertainment Home finder 73 Horoscope Jumble Puzzle Jumble entry 77 legals 81 letters 21 movies 32 news and review relax 65 Russell Sinclair 65 47 stocks 13 travel 65 Ward 3 the provincial Winner March final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 free press vol 117 n0100 l t n 23 killed in Dryden Scott free press Dryden police officer inspects smouldering nibble of air Ontario flight 363 that crashed shortly after Cream haunts Young couple Mother shrieks my my baby after fiery air plane crash by Aldo Santin Winnipeg free press Dryden a couple who miraculously escaped unharmed from a plane crash Here yesterday say they Are haunted by a woman scream of my my and the horror of the bodies left two minutes into the flight we heard Gord said last we knew we were flying too i could see the treetops from the the stewardess behind us started Yelling Brace then we went people were when we everything Tore i saw Gallons of fuel Rush past seconds it was All in Tucker said he helped his girl Tina also out of the both suffered Only minor bumps and a muscular labourer from Thunder said he had to push away Snow and some Metal to free then cleared debris covering his girl they were both still buckled into their seats when the plane came to Maronese said she recalled Little of the All i can remember is the woman behind screaming my my Maronese people were Tucker everyone was trying to get Tucker said he and other survivors made their Way out of the Over the bodies of leave i stepped on a Sheet of Metal and then i realized there was a Man blood came gushing out of his Mouth and another Man was trying to help i told the other Man leave we have to get Tucker said he then helped carry a who had lost her shoes and was unable to away from the she told him she thought her Hus band was killed in the Maronese said survivors began gathering in a group away from the broken air Ontario Fokker f28 shaking their Heads in Dis be most of them in we believe we had been in a plane she Ive flown in a plane but Ive never been in a Tucker said firefighters and res Cue personnel arrived on the scene within 10 he said he and Maronese were the first survivors taken to Dryden adding they waited in a cafeteria while medical personnel looked after the More seriously in we were we were really he Maronese and 18 other survivors were taken to the Lenver inn Motel around 6 Tucker relived the crash in an interview while he watched news coverage of it on cd ctr last i didst want to talk to anyone about this at he but now i feel its better for me if i get it i think ill sleep better if i Tell someone about a communications director at Magnus theatre in Thun Der was calling family on the phone with crash details during the a labourer with Canadian Pacific Forest products in Thunder said doctors told them to see their own physicians when they return he said he suffered a stiff sore Back and faint bruises that had to be pointed out to be Maronese said she was shaken up and her hair was singed in the fire As they were making their Way from the the couple were on their Way from Thunder Bay to planning to see the Winnipeg jets play this Tucker said the crash happened because the plane was before we left Thunder the Pilot said the plane was they had too Many passengers and too much Luggage and they were going to have to empty some Jet clips tree crashes in flames by Ruth Teichroeb and Patrick Mckinley Winnipeg free press bad weather hampered investigations into the crash of an air Ontario Jet that struck treetops and exploded in flames moments after taking off from police said As Many As 23 of the 69 passengers and Crew were killed after flight 363 ran into trouble in a the Fokker f28 bound for Winnipeg from Thunder crashed shortly after cutting a charred Swath half a Kilometre Long and 30 metres wide through thick anguished relatives were left to wonder about the Fate of those on Board As the Snow in Dryden pre vented investigating teams from reaching the site and hindered res Cue a temporary morgue was being set up in a Dryden James director of Dryden funeral Chapel said last theres going to have to be ids forensic work he Seeley said he had no idea How Many people were killed in the Only that police have asked that we be prepared to go in in the late air Ontario spokesman Paul Mcknight said the airline had Only sketchy details of what took neither official investigating team has been Able to land in dry he said in a Telephone inter View last night from his were taking what in formation we can from other sources unfortunately a lot of it is officials from the Canadian Avia Tion safety Board and the air line were unable to take off from Ottawa and Thunder Bay because of the bad weather in see victims Page 4 survivor describes horror of air crash Sioux Lookout 160 to Manitoba Border Ontario Verm titon Bay air flight a Fokker f28 with 69 aboard crashed a k m East of Dryden Airport Sioux Narrows Gordon free press Dan Godin and his family were among the survivors who crawled out of air Ontario flight 363 after it crashed yesterday near a mechanical his and daughters and were on their Way to a we Klong ski trip in Here is Godins account of the As told to free press reporter Zena we boarded the plane at As soon As we were the Pilot said Over the Public address system that we had a weight prob rather than take off they decided to let some fuel this delayed the plane by close to an my wife and younger daughter were sitting in Row right Over the Wing on the right my other daughter was in the same but on the left Side of the Centre a variety of people were on the plane because it was the Spring school break and they were going on there were also Many other people on in we knew two families on the same one was a family of the other was a couple that we were close it was a totally full but it had a Large enough runway so there was no problem and we took off with no the 35miniite flight to Dryden was basically As a mat Ter of it was a very Nice flight no Good take Good in six or eight Passen Gers got but As Many got the outside Crew took on an additional Load of at this it began to Snow see screams Page 4 Dryden disaster d rescuers Battle Bush to reach d communications biggest d fiery chaos followed fathers d fake disaster readied medical dam study ignores memo says by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa the Saskatchewan government failed to consider Manitoba interests when conducting an environmental Impact study of the Raffert Alameda dam an inter Nal government memo released yesterday the from Richard director of coordination and assessment in the Saskatchewan environment Calls the failure to address environmental concerns outside Saskatchewan a major the environmental Impact study except by passing to address the developments environmental implications beyond despite evident interest and concerns in both Manitoba and the says the dated july walkers internal memo also says the study was incomplete and a preliminary review of the Raffert Yala Meda environmental Impact study shows the document to be of poor Quality and unjustifiably limited in the memo con it fails to address Many of the guidelines and does not present a Good Case for the proposed Walker could not be reached for comment Federal Liberal environment critic Sheila flanked by Liberal maps David Walker Winnipeg North Centre and Rey Pagtakhan Winnipeg called for the Federal government to demand dam construction Stop until a Federal environmental Impact study is but Terry a spokesman for environment minister Lucien said the government will not reexamine the the Federal government is not retreating from the commitments that it has he David Walker said time is running out for those who oppose the with the delay of we have been unable to raise this in the House before the Spring he they will be getting under Way in Early april and we want this to get some National attention it deserves National in the environment minister Tom Mcmillan signed a Federal licence allowing the dam project to go since both Canadian and oppo see Deal Page 4 ;