Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 16, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free May 1995 Landing gear collapses on Bearskin plane by Linda Quattrin staff reporter Bearskin airlines Al ready under scrutiny for a string of including a fatal midair crash this month gave passengers another scare on the runway at Kingfisher on Friday five passengers and two Crew were shaken but officials after the Landing gear on a Beech 99 collapsed shortly after touchdown at Kingfisher about 300 Kilometres Northeast of Sioux All i remember is running away from the plane and them saying to like maybe it would blow said passenger Elaine Anderson was flying from Kasab Onika where she lives with her grandmother to visit her Mother in Sioux i almost didst come Back be cause of a pregnant woman on Board was airlifted to Thunder Bay As a pre but a Kingfisher band councillor said yesterday she and the fetus were in Good fridays Bearskin ninth since january has made a lot of Northern residents on May eight people were killed when a Bearskin metro 5 collided in midair with an air Sandy Piper a near Sioux i think everybody in the area is concerned about Bearskin is the Only airline in our said Matt a band councillor for Kingfisher Lake first but air travel is something we cannot maybe we should look into bringing in another airline to have More Bearskin officials in Thunder Bay were not available for comment yes the flight on which originated in was stopping in Kingfisher Lake on the Way to Sioux investigators said the Beech 99 landed but As it was slowing Down the Landing gear on the left Side collapsed and sent the plane the propeller and Wing were damaged As were some lights on the Mike regional director general of aviation for transport Canada in said the run Way scare should be kept in perspex the Tough thing is not to overreact to incidents and not to under re act to Murphy noting career soldiers Fate now in jurors hands by Bud Robertson staff reporter cab Shilo throughout his court an Drew Reynolds has sat Sto waiting to hear what his future the waiting will soon be a three member panel which has been hearing the Case retired to deliberate for the a verdict could be announced As Early As this is charged with one count of encouraging re serve recruits to use unlawful Force on others during a Basic training course Here last summer As Well As four counts of while he did not actually strike any of his Reynolds is accused of deliberately counsel Ling others to do if the career Soldier faces a dishonourable discharge from the a Fine or imprisonment in a military Reynolds was earlier found not guilty of two assault related charges after the defence successfully argued that evidence supporting the charges was not presented during the judge advocate Randy Gynn spent about three hours explaining Points of Law and reviewing four Days of Testi Mony with the All Mem Bers of the before they began their in his judge Gynn told the panel to carefully consider whether the prosecution had proven the charges beyond a reasonable doubt and that Reynolds had intended to encourage his recruits to beat other members of the unit in their the court heard testimony from 13 including last several witnesses testified near the end of a rigorous six week course last urged recruits to straighten out so called slackers who didst pull their the department has no plans to re open the books on Bearskin after a detailed audit last year found no major Landing gear failure could be caused by a Micro switch with a piece of dirt in would be an in my to go charging Back Vic regional manager of the transportation safety Board in said yesterday an investigator is heading to Ontario to look into the cause of fridays fights to keep farm by Kevin Rollason Law courts reporter a 101yearold woman has taken her friends and neigh Bors of 70 years to court in a bid to keep her Flora Mae who turns 102 in denies she Ever intended to sell the family farm to the Stewart family of High a Community near Portage la the stewarts have rented the Blacks neighbouring Farmland to cultivate Ever since floras son Keith became too ill to farm in the Early 1980s and later died in it was not for the frail look Snow haired woman told Justice John Scollin of court of Queens Bench it was to stay in the Black estate until i was gone and then the Chil Dren could make their own Deci in August the stewarts visited Black and her daughter to pro pose buying the the through their Law yer Bill claim Black along with her agreed to sell the 200hectare farm for Black said her daughter Maxine read out terms of the contract which she believed was Only a Docu ment confirming that the Stewart family would have first dibs on the farm when it was she later signed the Black you must re ill soon be 102 years in allowed a few slips Here and mayoral candidate targets handouts too Many people on welfare Are satisfied with a lifetime of government new mayoral candidate Michael Grieger said he said he would reduce social 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elderly woman look after her interests be cause she want Able to read the contract due to bad the land is Worth substantially More than the Price Zaz Elenchuk court documents show one appraiser values the land at but Olson said he will bring evidence to show the Price the stewarts offered for the land is firings during Union drive called unfair the Media Union of Manitoba has filed unfair labor practice charges against the Winnipeg free press after the company fired four employees the Union claims the four telemarketers were let go when they tried to organize a Union in the Larry president of local 191 of the Communia Energy and paperwork said two of the telemarketers were fired the same Day they signed Union he said the employees were apparently told by manage ment that their productivity was but Kusch said one of the workers was a top producer and the other had been with the company for eight the Union represents Over 400 employees at the new spa publisher Rudy Redekop declined to 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