NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, September 13, 1994
7A
Suicide cause of plane crash
The Associated Press
PERRY POINT, Md. — His marriage had just fallen apart, his father had died of cancer, he had problems with drugs and alcohol, and he had talked of suicide.
It all caused Frank Corder's relatives to say it was not politics but a determination to end his life that motivated him to steal a small plane in the middle of the night, fly it to Washington and crash it on the White House lawn.
"He did this to destroy himself," said an aunt, Edith Dishman.
Corder, 38, who worked as a self-employed freight-truck driver and had a student pilot license, died in the crash.
The Secret Service reached the same preliminary conclusion as Corder's family. Political considerations were not in play.
"It does not appear to be directed toward the president," said special agent Carl Meyer of the Secret Service.
"Frank has never said anything against this country or anyone else," said Mrs. Dishman.
"It was the drugs," she said. "That's the only problem that I know of that Frank had. It was just like the devil will get ashold of you and won't let go."
Corder had no criminal record, state police said, but he was convicted of drunken driving last year and lost his commercial driver's license for 90 days.
His father died of cancer at 64 in April 1993, Mrs. Dishman said.
USAir victims mourned
PITTSBURGH — Hymns echoed softly through a crowded downtown square yesterday as 2,000 people gathered at lunchtime to mourn the victims of USAir Flight 427.
The Associated Press
"Maybe God will give me some answers to what happened," said Pam Kastelmeyer, whose neighbor's daughter was among 132 people killed when the jet crashed Thursday in a wooded ravine.
Some of the victims' loved ones were stolc through several prayers, but they broke down and sobbed when a priest read the names of the dead. A wreath adorned with red carnations and tiny white flowers stood alone in front of a stage set up on Market Square, in the city's business district.
About 20 miles away at the crash site, investigators continued their search for clues. They were trying to determine whether the right engine of the Boeing 737-300 inadvertently went into reverse before the plane nose-dived six miles short of the Pittsburgh International Airport.
A flight crew reported problems with the engine's reverse thrust 21/2 months ago.
When activated, the reverser closes across the rear of the engine so hot exhaust is deflected to counteract the plane's forward motion. Passengers can hear the roar from the engines just after the plane touches the ground.
Four actuators, which control the
position of an engine's thrust reverser, were recovered from the right engine. Three were in the deployed position, but it wasn't clear whether they were in that position before the plane hit the ground at 300 mph. The fourth wasn't deployed.
The actuators are controlled by levers usually arranged on the same console as the plane's throttle. Donald Ward, an aeronautical engineering professor at Texas A&M University, said the controls were designed so they can not be moved accidentally. The devices can not control just one engine at a time.
All actuators recovered from the left engine were in proper position.
Engine were in proper position Records show that a crew flying the 7-year-old plane reported difficulty 21/2 months ago in putting the right engine into reverse, said National Transportation Safety Board member Carl Vogt. Part of the reverser was replaced July 3 and the device was lubricated, Vogt said. There had been no complaints since then.
Witnesses told investigators the jet rolled to the left before it crashed. John Nance, an air safety analyst in Seattle, said that if the right engine's thrust was reversed, the plane would have moved to the right.
He cautioned that "this impact was so horrendous and the scattered parts so thoroughly hashed up that no conclusion right now, no matter how obvious it might seem, can be relied on."
AmeriCorps service programs begins
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Surrounded by hundreds of youths on the front steps of the White House, President Clinton swore in the first recruits to his national service program yesterday and urged all young Americans to join the cause.
"You are no generation of slackers," he declared.
lection of old and new community service programs.
AmeriCorps, approved easily by Congress a year ago, gives Americans a chance to earn tuition or work off college loans by participating in a col-
Drawing a comparison between AmeriCorps and President Kennedy's Peace Corps, Clinton said, "The people of AmeriCorps are the next generation of heroes."
AmeriCorps is a $360 million program paying 20,000 Americans to work in education, health and human needs, the environment, and public safety. If Congress extends the program, the White House hopes to spend $1.5 billion during three years to pay for 100,000 workers.
Some in Congress have questioned the cost of the program. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, accused Clinton of creating "a large and costly bureaucracy."
The workers, many of whom are in their late teens and early 20s, will receive minimum-wage pay, free health care and a $4,725 educational voucher for one year of work. The money can be used for college, vocational education or to pay off college loans. The recruits can work up to two years.
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