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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER A Combined Communication! Newspaper FINAL EDITIONPRICE 20tHOME DELIVERY: $4.50 A MONTH nan Saturday Hay 26, 1979 111 mmsm 11 iitw m.h mMmm mm PARTLY' HKTVt -C SUNNY SUNNY TODAY TOMORROW Partly clear skies are predicted today through Sunday. High temperature today will be In the 60s; low tonight will be 45; high Sunday will be around 70. There Is 20 chance of rain today and tonight. Weather map and details on Page B-2. smile Attention businessmen: You can save gasoline by leaving your car at home one day a week you don't leave the keys there, too.

II, J)' metro Retiring Fire Chief Bert Lugannani Is stepping aside "to make room for younger generation." Page D-l. suburban AP Laserphoto THIS WAS scene northwest of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Friday afternoon, after American Airlines Flight 191, en route to Los Angeles, crashed. There were no survivors. 272 Die In Deadliest U.S. Air Crash Ohio Department of Natural Resources officials expect early agreement to purchase Little Miami railroad right-of-way from Penn Central.

Page D-2. "It's natural," notes Hamilton County Commission President Wood, observing noteworthy transfers of service from city to urban county governments. Page D-2. on the inside Eyewitness accounts; other catastrophes; photos. Page B-6.

Ration Witnesses See Engine Pull Loose Before Jet Falls About a dozen families leave homes near Jackson, after state officials confirm finding high level radioactivity in animal life near a former underground nuclear test site. Page Aj6. 1 2 I Crash Site I jj it Evoiuton I I VI Chicago -if 1 wor Massive crowds In Tehran stage a second day of protests against "meddling" in Iranian affairs by the United States. Page A-7. The hero of Entebbe surrenders El-Arish to Egypt after 12 years of Israeli military occupation.

Page A-7. almost started to scream because I knew it would not come out of It. "It continued almost upside down. As it impacted, flames shot out to where I thought my face was going to be singed," Anderson said. "When I looked back, It looked like an atomic bomb explosion." OTHER EYEWITNESSES said the left engine came loose, and then the plane banked to the left, shuddered for a few seconds and struck the ground, hitting on its nose and left wlngtip at about the same time.

Witnesses also said the plane appeared to be traveling at an unusually slow speed for a Jetliner taking off. Callahan said FAA Investigators "have listened to the tapes, and after the routine takeoff was given the flight, the controller realized that he was having difficulty and radioed the aircraft asking if he wanted to come back and what runway he wanted. There was no response. They obviously had their hands full." A temporary morgue was set up at an American Airlines hangar at O'Hare. Chicago police sent 10 police vans to help remove bodies, which were being wrapped in blue plastic bags.

Deputy police chief Charles Pepp told rescue workers to "put as many in (the vans) as you can, but don't stack them. Treat them like your own personal family." Relatives of victims were asked to gather at American's VIP lounge at the airport. HIGHWAYS IN the area quickly became Jammed with rush-hour motorists and hundreds of people gathered at the grisly scene, including residents of the Oasis trailer park. O'Hare, the world's busiest airport, shut down briefly, disrupting heavy holiday traffic, but later some runways reopened. Departing flights were delayed an hour or more.

The non-stop flight was due to leave Chicago at 2:45 p.m. CDT and to arrive in Los Angeles at 4:42 p.m. PDT. The same Jet had landed at O'Hare at 1:05 p.m. CDT, as Flight 630 from Phoenix, Ariz.

American officials In Chicago said their records showed 272 people aboard: 257 passengers and 15 crew members. Of the crew mem- eopie today The job of a Catholic priest is "Yes, It should fly, no question about that, but that's one thing that will be determined In a further Investigation." The National Transportation Safety Board sent Investigators from Washington. MICHAEL LAUGHLIN of Toronto, who filmed the plane's descent with a still camera from a window Inside an O'Hare terminal, said the engine "came off and flew backwards and fluttered to the ground" before the plane plummeted. "I had to force myself to shoot," he said. "I couldn't believe what I was seeing." John Zuccaro, who saw the crash from the ground, said: "Underneath the left wing was on fire.

Stuff was coming out-like white vapor. "It had to be gas," Zuccaro said. "It was coming out from the left wing. And the thing started turning over. As soon as it was turned over It was going down fast." Roy Mueller, manager of the Oasis mobile home park near the disaster site, said, "We heard a loud rumbling.

We went to the door and we saw this airplane flip-flopping in the air. It bellied over and went straight down. "One of my superintendents Just came back from the field and he said, 'There's bodies scattered all JOHN WAYNE, a Chicago area resident, was on an Ozark Airlines flight landing on another runway at the time American Flight 191 took off from a runway at the north end of the airport. "The plane was In the air, and the young fellow In front of me said, 'Look at I looked over and he said, 'The engine fell We watched the plane as far as we could. He went on a fairly level course and gained just a little teeny bit of altitude and then he nosed off to the left, the wing went down and it was Just one solid mass of flame all at once." Robert Anderson, who was driving nearby when the plane crashed northwest of Chicago, said the plane was "almost vertical and I CHICAGO (AP) An American Airlines wide-bodied jet loaded with 272 people crashed nose first and broke apart In flames Friday Just after takeoff from O'Hare International Airport.

Authorities said all aboard were killed in the worst air disaster in U.S. history. SECONDS BEFORE the Los Angeles-bound DC-10 Jetliner crashed, one of its three engines fell off and landed on the runway, said Chicago Fire Commissioner Richard Al-brecht. He said the plane hit nose first about a half-mile from the O'Hare runway, In an abandoned airfield in Elk Grove Township. Lee Alfano, police chief of the nearby community of Des Plalnes, said there were no survivors from the crash, which occurred at 3:03 p.m.

CDT under clear but windy skies. Rescue workers walked through the smoking rubble, marking bodies with four-foot-high metal stakes topped by red, yellow and black streamers. The yellow streamers indicated two to three bodies, the red one body and the black five bodies. About 50 stakes had been set out. Several persons on the ground were Injured by debris, at least two of them seriously enough to require hospitalization.

As darkness fell, floodlights were brought to the crash site and rescuers and investigators said they would work through the night, looking for bodies and clues. NEAL CALLAHAN, public affairs officer for the Federal Aviation Agency (FA A) in Chicago, said a recording of conversations between the pilot and the control tower Indicated the tower knew on takeoff there was trouble. "The only thing we do know for sure Is that he didn't have time to talk to the control tower," Callahan said. Asked by reporters whether the plane should have been able to fly with one engine missing, Callahan said: really two jobs. Consider the Rev.

Phil Seher: He oversees Archdiocese personnel matters and celebrates Mass at St. Vincent Ferrer of Kenwood. Page B-1. entertainment "Walk Proud" is one of those movies that straddles the middle not real good, not real bad. Just there.

Page A-8. bers, there was the pilot, copilot and flight engineer, 10 flight attendants on duty and two flight attendants "deadheading," or traveling from one completed assignment to the starting point of another. A SPOKESMAN for Playboy magazine said passengers on the flight Included Its managing editor Sheldon Wax; his wife, the novelist Judith Wax; Mary Tierney Sheridan, administrative director of Playboy Enterprise's international publishing division; and Victoria Haider, Playboy's fiction editor. Mike Murphy, a magazine vice president, described Wax as "the man who puts the magazine out." Wax Just published a book about middle age, Starting In the Middle. Murphy said the Playboy contingent was bound for a convention of the American Booksellers Association.

American identified the pilot as Capt. Walter H. Lux of Phoenix, the copilot as James R. DUlard of Chicago and the flight engineer as Fred Udovlch of Chicago. Lux, a former Air Force pilot, had been flying for American since 1950.

Business Costlier meat boosts food prices in Greater Cincinnati while more expensive gas pushes up consum er prices across the nation. Page C-8 in our opinion Robert Clerc surveys the prospects in next Tuesday's Kentucky primary. Page A-10. Explosion In Burning Store Kills 5 walked up to firemen to tell them to had warned Hagan that the vote might split the party. Hagan met with several of the county party's vice chairmen upon his return to Cleveland and said in a telephone Interview he tried "to persuade them there were compelling arguments" to call off the vote.

But the vice chairmen meeting with Hagan unanimously supported an earlier stance to move forward with the vote. Hagan quoted one of the vice chairmen as sayng Kennedy wouldn't run unless he knew he has support. Added Hagan, "Let's see if there Is support." The vote Is scheduled to take 1 place today at a county party convention In which at last 500 committee persons are expected to attend. Cuyahoga To Vote Today On Kennedy ENQUIRER COLUMBUS BUREAU Despite attempts by some party officials to block the action, Cuyahoga County Democrats will vote today on a resolution urging Sen. Edward Kennedy, to seek the presidency in 1980.

"We're going forward," Cuyahoga Democratic Party Chairman Timothy Hagan said Friday after his re-' turn from Washington, D.C., where former Ohio Gov. Michael V. DiSalle them to find more bodies, but officials said later that they believed no more victims were buried in the rubble. Officials at Cleveland Memorial Hospital said 27 people had been treated for injuries from the explosions and fire. One person was listed in serious condition.

Hospital officials also confirmed that four firefighters were dead on arrival shortly after 8 p.m. The fire started about 6:30 p.m., then turned into an inferno after three explosions rocked the clothing store. Kennedy said the blasts knocked down a wall, burying the victims, who had thought the fire was under control and were standing on the sidewalk in front of the store, a women's clothing shop called J.E.'s. The shop was not open at the time of the fire, Kennedy said. He added that three other stores connected to J.E.'s were destroyed by fire.

The stores had closed for the day and were unoccupied at the time of the fire, he said. "I WAS about 20 feet away, and I SHELBY, N.C. (AP)-A burning clothing store exploded Friday evening, killing five persons, including four firemen, who were buried beneath the rubble of a collapsed wall, authorities said. "We've got four Shelby firemen and one gas department employee dead," said Capt. Harold Smith of the Shelby Police Department.

Twenty-seven persons, mostly firemen and bystanders, were injured by flying bricks and glass, officials said. "The building Just shook from top to bottom, and then It Just blowed," said W.W. Lynch, a Shelby businessman who was standing across the street from the store when It exploded. "I don't see how anybody could have escaped." FIREFIGHTERS AND other rescue workers began searching the rubble after the blaze was brought under control around 9:30 p.m., and recovered the last of the five bodies shortly afterward, officials said. Levon Kennedy, assistant Shelby fire chief, had said that he expected call in the Cleveland County Department for help when it hit," said police Lt.

J.J. Wall. "The wall Just caved in and the fire shot out and there were five or six men in front of me. "Bricks fell on them and all around me, and I was Just lucky. When I seen it start to fall, I ran back," Wall said.

Wall said he saw no flames before the explosion, but did see a lot of smoke. Preston Cherka, a Shelby police officer, said he started running when he heard the explosion. "I looked back and saw the building fall on the firemen," he said. "I knew there was no help for them." A FIREMAN, Robert Lumpkin, said, "It just blew." Lumpkin broke a hand while fighting the blaze but returned to the scene after receiving treatment. Cleveland County Fire Marshall Delane Davis said officials did not Immediately know the cause of the fire.

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