University Daily Kansan / Friday. April 24, 1992
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Delta jetliner blows wheel in landing at La Guardia
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - A Jetliner blew a tire in its nose wheel as it landed with 1,000 passengers yesterday at La Guardia Airport, coming to a halt at the intersection of two runways and shutting down the busy airport for six hours.
No injuries were reported. Authorities and Delta Air Lines disputed whether there was also a fire in the nose wheel.
The passengers were taken off by staircases and bused back to the terminal, Delta representative Neil Monroe said.
The incident occurred as Flight 702, a Lockheed L-1011 from West Palm Beach, Beach, Wa, was landing at about 2:30 p.m. The airport was closing, tying up
500 flights, until 8:30 p.m., said airport representative John Kampfe.
Kampfe said there were relatively few problems, partly because passengers could move to nearby Kennedy Airport to get alternate flights.
Port Authority police Lt. Kevin Ward, a witness, said the pilot did an outstanding job of preventing disaster.
"Had it pulled any further into the left, it might have ended in the dirt area," said Ward. Instead, the plane stayed upright on the runway.
Kampfe said there was a small fire in the nose gear when the plane came to a halt. It was extinguished almost immediately by ground personnel, he said.
Federal Aviation Administration
representative Duncan Pardue said that after the fire was extinguished, ground workers noticed that the nose wheel was severed, which prevented the plane from moving.
"There may have been a spark, but there was not a fire," he said.
Monroe said the problem was not a fire.
Also yesterday, two small planes collided in flight and crashed in rural southwest Missouri. One of the four occupants was hospitalized with a severe head cut; the others suffered bumps and bruises, a sheriff's deputy said.
And outside Detroit, a DC-8 cargo plane skidded off a wet runway and broke its nose gear at Willow Run Airport. No injuries were reported.
Mother tracks son's attackers
The Associated Press
LOSANGLEES—A mother tracked down street-gang members she suspected of robbing her son on the way to school yesterday and fired gunshots over their heads as she drove by, police said.
No one was hurt, Julia Pena, 31, and her 14-year-old son were arrested for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon.
"She should have called us first," said police Sgt. Gary Grubbs, adding that it was the first known attack of its kind in Los Angeles.
The boy whose name was withheld
denied he a gang member, but he dressed the part, Grubbs said.
The boy told police he was robbed at gunpoint by gang members he had trouble with before while walking to George Washington Carver Junior High. He returned home to tell his mother after surrendering a small amount of money.
The woman got out of bed, dressed and drove with her son to school, where he pointed out the gang members. Grubbs said.
She told her son to duck out of the way and then allegedly fired two shots out the passenger-side window with a
small-caliber pistol.
"She fired over their heads to scare them," said Detective William Baird. "Every indication is that she just had enough of them picking on her son."
"She's very pleasant." Baird said. "She has no history of violent crime."
School-district police arrested the pair without incident.
Gang shootings in recent weeks killed a 3-year-old girl and an 18-month-old girl. On Wednesday, a 5-month-old girl was hurled from the arms of a family friend intentionally hit by a car in a gang attack. She died of a head injury yesterday.
Minnesota subsidizes health insurance
The Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Gov. Arne Carlson signed a sweeping health care reform act into law yesterday, saying it put Minnesota at the front of national efforts to make health care accessible and affordable.
The bill establishes a state-subsidized insurance program, dubbed HealthRight, in which uninsured Minnesota can enroll voluntarily if they meet income and other eligibility requirements.
An estimated 158,000 people are expected to sign up by 1997 at a cost of about $252 million annually. About 375,000 Minnesotaans are uninsured for all or part of a year, according to a report commissioned by the 1991 Legislature.
October.
The plan is to be phased in over 21 months, starting in
Start-up costs will be financed by increasing the state's cigarette tax by five cents, to 48 cents a pack, on July 1. The main financing for the program will come from taxes on hospitals, doctors and other health care providers, and nonprofit health insurers, to be phased in through 1996.
The law also includes provisions aimed at controlling the growth in health care costs, decreasing discrimination in health insurance pricing and improving access to medical care in rural areas.
Hospital and doctor associations lobbed against the bill, particularly its tax provisions. Representatives of those groups promised yesterday to cooperate to make the package work but said they still had problems with it.
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