Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 13, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ree March 1ft Dryden disaster lawyer plans to launch suit in air disaster the lawyer retained by family of a Winnipeg business Man who died in the Dryden air disaster says there is Little question a lawsuit will be but it is too Early to Tell against right Well want to see what unfolds in an invest Robert Tapper said last Tapper said he plans to Send a representative to Dryden today to get firsthand in formation on the liability for the Accident is still Tapper adding he Doest know whether air its majority shareholder air local ground workers or trans port Canada policy May have played a part in the several weeks who would i sue he adding it would be Sev eral weeks before Legal action is he represents the family of Fred who As a Salesman for syntax a pharmaceutical regularly travelled by air in the of Thatcher leaves his wife daughters Holly and and one Tapper said the crash was a horrible tragedy of the Type Winni Eggers hear of happen ing but do not expect so close to he said he needs More information about the disaster than what he now knows from Media much of which he said came from Dis traught cd Nero investigators talk to crash survivors continued from Page 1 Ontario provincial police finished removing the bodies of 24 Passen Gers and they had Only been on the site briefly Friday night and saturday to remove the flight data and voice recorders and to take a few Pic but Cash officials began inter viewing some of the 45 survivors saturday and Hope to talk to As Many As Well have teams of investigators going to wherever they Harris Well be talking to passengers about How they got what did they anything any of them can Tell us about the crash could be passengers also May be Able to help investigators understand what they Call the survivability or Why so Many walked out he its amazing to me that that Many got a special team will Analyse the human factors which could have contributed to the look at what the four Mem Ber Crew did during the 48 hours before the How Many hours of flight time each their work rec ords and what they were like As he we want to know what kind of people they on Many Occa Sions we do psychological onsite investigators will remove the planes engines and Send them to a special lab in Ottawa for Examina Harris a special sit Survey team will use the latest laser technology to make stereoscopic photographs of the wreckage and put together a Topo graphical by that we can measure things like the height of the Trees broken off As the aircraft went another team was already Busy taking Aerial videos of the site from helicopters other officials will put together a Complete history of the 16yearold after the initial two week invest Harris officials could decide to have the entire wreckage removed to a special warehouse in once the entire probe is a study is submitted to the Cash and to its safety safety recommendations then will be sent to transport Canada for consider he As officials can decide to Issue safety advisories if they Dis cover specific problems at any Point during the once the preliminary report is it is sent to other parties involved in the crash clouding the aircraft the airline and the next skin of flight Crew members Are Given the Chance to add to the re names of dead focus of probe dental records to help identify victims of Dryden crash Opp officers carry the remains of a passenger into Dryden memorial Arena Bald Santin the remains of 22 people who died at the air crash site in Dryden were to go to Toronto but authorities say their identities May not be released for several Don Jones of the Ontario provincial police said the bodies will be taken to the forensic pathology Branch of the Ontario solicitor generals where a medical team will use medical and dental records to match them with names of passengers known or thought to have been on air Ontario flight Joseph Opp chief superintendent of special i Vestiga said police wont release names until positive identifications have been there is a possibility that tickets were Given to someone other than a person who purchased Cro Zier until we know for cer we wont release any Jones said the families of All those thought to have died in the crash have been a morning news conference at the Dryden Opp detachment ended abruptly when Jones became impatient with reporters repeated de mands that the identities of the 22 deceased be Ive told you several times Why we Arent releasing the Jones said before ending the news requests to identify the victims hometowns also were How Jones later said half the 45 survivors Are from Thunder Bay and most of the rest Are other parts of Northwestern Ontario and the Western Jones said air Ontario could re lease but Only from its head quarters in on airline officials named the three Crew members killed in the but refused to release a passenger list or identify the 22 flight attendant Sonia of was among the Many of whom walked through deep Snow and thick Bush to air Ontario Vic president Paul Mcknight didst return several Tele phone Calls yesterday to his London onsite work Joe chief of the crash investigation for the Canadian Avia Tion safety said the last re Mains were removed from the wreckage around 1 yester Jackson said Opp officers were to finish cleaning up passengers per Sonal property later yesterday and Case officials were to begin their onsite work the officers removed the remains of 11 bodies Jones said the Cash had agreed to let police comb the crash site for personal belongings and to gather evidence for a coroners a Date for an inquest has not been safety Board investigators will examine the wreckage at the scene for two looking for evidence to explain what caused the Fokker f28 Jet to crash on Takeoff shortly after noon there were 47 but two later died in Hospital one in dry Den and another in flight data recorders burned in plane crash continued from Page 1 when pilots have to wait on the runway after turn Back and deice again if its he we air Canada deice like its going out of the source also said it is policy for All Canadian International airlines planes to automatically be diced if there Are snowy some planes can handle Snow and ice better than he noting the wings on the Fokker f28 Are built for there be anything on he it takes 10 to 15 minutes to deice at Dryden there is a base Cost of plus an average for the Paul air Ontario vice did not return phone Calls Jackson said it is normally a pilots decision whether to deice a for an the roughness of ice and Snow and the change in shape they cause can affect the lift of the he the shape of the wings and the Speed of the air Over the wings determines How much lift the plane Jackson said Federal investigators will be on the crash site trying to find any pieces of the plane that broke off during the crash and were thrown Clear of the they May not have melted and we could confirm that they did or did not have he Black boxes burned Jackson also said the planes flight data recorder so called Black Box Well As the voice cockpit recorder were too badly burned to provide any without the investigators wont know details of the mechanical performance of the air plane after it left the he it Means we will have to work a Little harder to prove our and it Means we have lost a confirmation we always like to confirm things through More than one Jackson said the two sophisticated measuring devices Are located in the Tail sections of air planes and do not normally its More usual to find it in usable than unusable he i guess it was quite hot where they it was i that they got caught in the Jackson said investigators have not confirmed the icing theory and Are not ruling out possible we certainly dont Stop just be cause we some ice on the he that one area were looking we will also look at the we will look at weath Dryden municipal officials have been lobbying transport Canada for years to get a permanent flight ser vice station at the increased air traffic and unpredictable weather conditions prompted these Bill past chairman of the Dryden municipal Airport said yester weather information a flight service station provides up Odate weather information and air traffic control during takeoffs and he pilots have to phone to the nearest station in 180 Kilometres asked whether having a local Sta Tion could have made any difference in fridays Beatty said a weve been lobbying for this for years and its just unfortunate that some thing like this has to happen before the actual problem is but Peter who began chairing the Airport commission last said a station would be More convenient for but not i dont think it would have had any bearing on what happened Fri he wed like to see it but not having it Hast presented any the Only time the 20yearold air port had a flight service station was for a couple of months two years ago because of increased air traffic due to Forest yet passenger been Landing at the Airport since the Early 1970s and air traffic has increased to passengers per the air Ontario plane Cut a 30 metre wide Swath through the for snapping Birch and Pine it Slid the length of three football Fields after hitting the ground and then was engulfed in Jackson said investigators have already determined the left Wing of the air plane was the first to touch he said the listing plane had crashed through about 15 metres of Trees before treetops started in assuming the fuel tanks rup tured at that Point because the Trees have shown evidence of Burn he five minutes prior to the there was about 100metre vertical visibility and half Kilometre of horizontal visibility in moderate Snow at the the temperature was one degree celcius and the Dew Point temperature at which fog would form minus one degree cel its possible there could be fog at but that Jackson there was no fog ten to 15 minutes after the another Pilot flew Over the site and reported 300metre vertical visibility and about a Kilometre of horizontal visibility in Light there was really quite changing conditions Jackson its also possible from the cockpit he the Pilot May have been Able to see deaths classified death Jeffery son of Dave and Betty of wife of Mike of widow of Michael Frederick Fred ver husband of Dorothy Gal of widow of John husband of Olga Geraldine of Portage la wife of Jellicoe husband of Marine of Winni widower of Katarzyna Pruslin husband of Anne Albert of husband of Helen Alice of win formerly of wife of John John Arthur of husband of Jessie Elizabeth unique Opportunity custom tailored suit Canadas Foremost designer Nello Sansone a harrys store for Over 25 Nello Sansone has been in constant fulfilling the personal fitting and design requests of Harry Rosen so successfully that he now has his own line of the Sansone collection of furnishings and exclusive to Harry Hes in town to discuss your special fitting assess your fit you for custom tailored or simply talk about the Sansone and Harry will be 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