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Wednesdav. January 25.1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FAA told of families' needs
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — As experts testified about rudders and cables at a hearing yesterday, relatives of people who died in the crash of USAir Flight 427 pleaded for officials to remember their needs.
About 10 members of the Flight 427 Air Disaster Support League, a group formed after the Sept. 8 accident, said at a news conference that they wanted the National Transportation Safety Board or the Federal Aviation Administration to appoint a family representative to act as a liaison between relatives, airlines and agencies following crashes.
"It's an attempt to give purpose and meaning to the death of a loved one," said Janine Katonah, whose husband, Joel Thompson, died in the crash.
A few relatives said a USAir telephone number they were given to call on the night of the crash was busy for hours. They said they didn't receive confirmation that family members were on the flight until about 3 a.m. eight hours after the accident that killed all 132 people aboard near Pittsburgh International Airport.
They also complained that they weren't given access to their relatives' belongings and weren't told how much unidentified remains were buried in a cemetery near the crash site. A family advocate would help survivors obtain vital information early, they said.
Katonah said the relatives had spoken to NTSB chairman James Hall about their request, and he said he would consider it.
The NTSB began hearings Monday on the possible cause of the crash, which the agency doesn't expect to
solve this week.
As the hearing resumed this morning, David Rusho, a Boeing Commercial Airplane Group system specialist, testified there was no evidence that the plane's rudder cables were faulty.
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The rudder, the large, vertical tail piece that helps move a plane left or right, has been a focus of the investigation for months. USair has warned pilots of its Boeing 737 planes to watch out for spontaneous rudder movements during flight.
The first day of the hearing included release of a dramatic transcript of the cockpit voice recording and testimony about 4-foot-wide rotating columns of air near Flight 427. Jets leave two columns of spiraling air or vortices behind them as they fly; the ones near Flight 427 were created by a Delta jet that was in the area.
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