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University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 16, 1987
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2 planes collide over Utah; all 10 passengers are killed
United Press International
KEARNS, Utah — A commuter plane and private plane collided in clouds over suburban Salt Lake City yesterday, killing all 10 people aboard the two crafts and hurling wreckage onto a snow-covered neighborhood.
"The debris is spread over about a square mile area. We're combing through the wreckage looking for bodies," Salt Lake County Chief Dispatcher Dave Marks said.
Skywest Airlines Metroliner Flight 834 with six passengers and two crew members aboard was approaching Salt Lake International Airport on a commuter flight from Pocatello, Idaho, at 12:50 p.m. MST when it collided with the private plane — a single-engine Mooney carrying a student pilot and instructor, officials said.
The four-seat private plane had just taken off from a smaller airport about 8 miles south of the main airport and was not picked up on radar, Federal Aviation Administration of.
ficials said. The twin-engine, 18-seat commuter plane vanished from radar in low clouds when the collision happened, the officials said.
The fuselage of the Skywest plane crashed into the middle of a street between several homes about eight miles from downtown Salt Lake City. A plane carrying 165 people Malmberg said. The private plane crashed on one mile away.
No one was hurt on the ground. Names of the people aboard the planes were withheld until relatives could be notified.
"I heard a whistling noise, then the planes hit each other," said Ronald Noel, 14, who was shoveling snow in his driveway. "The little one was going north, and the big one to the northeast when they hit."
The boy said the Skywest plane hit the smaller craft "about the middle of the front and it split it right in half."
The hurling wreckage cut through power lines in the neighborhood, and authorities set up temporary shelters last night for people whose homes
A plane's wing protruded from one house and power lines were draped across others. The smell of aviation fuel wafted through the neighborhood.
were without heat.
"The look on neighbors' faces told the story of disbelief," said resident Jeff Swertfeger. "People were shaking their heads. People were crying. One was roaming through the neighborhood looking for family members."
"I walked around the block and saw a tail section in a lady's front yard. Across the street, a set of blood-splattered seats was sitting in a driveway."
"I saw the fuselage of the airliner kind of floating down from the sky," said Darwin Smith, another resident. "As we approached the fuselage, we saw the bodies of what appeared to be two boys in the wreckage."
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration sent investigators to the scene.
Doctors say Americans are too fat Inadequate weight charts get blame for chubbiness
United Press International
CHICAGO - Standard desirable-weight charts are all too high because the studies on which they are based underestimate the negative impact of obesity on health, researchers said yesterday.
"Being under the optimal is certainly healthier," Manson said. "But we're not telling everybody to go out and lose so much weight that they get down to 60 percent of
Furthermore, it probably is healthier to be significantly underweight, contrary to the findings of some studies, said JoAnn Lisonon of Harvard and the Brigidian and Women's Hospital in Boston.
the current averages."
Consequently, doctors from the Harvard School of Public Health suggest that the majority of Americans are too fat for their own good, with average weight at least 10 percent over the ideal. Obesity is medically defined as 20 percent over optimal body weight.
The latest assault on the national waistline comes four years after the great collective sigh and belt loosening of 1983, when Metropolitan Life Insurance Company revised its weight for height charts upwards to accommodate new data.
The Metropolitan chart, based on 4.2 million people who have applied for life insurance since 1950, has long been considered the standard reference for most desirable weight for a person of a particular height, sex and build.
But Manson and her colleagues, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, said the Metropolitan chart failed to correct for the effects of cigarette smoking, a behavior that tends to keep weight down while disproportionately increasing mortality for leaner weights.
"If you look only at groups of smokers or groups of non-smokers you see a much stronger relationship between obesity and mortalili
ty,'" Manson said. "The Metropolitan numbers tend to favor heavier people."
Metropolitan officials, however,
said the charts never were intended
to be taken as hard and fast
guidelines of ideal weight. They
relied on the weight of the
weight at which the average
person tends to live the longest.
"It isn't the perfect thing, but it's one of the best things around." said Stanley Krancer, a senior chef at Metropolitan in New York.
Manson agreed, saying that although the weights shown on the Metropolitan tables probably were too high, other studies on weight and mortality contained more serious biases.
She said some failed to control for people who had lost weight because of an underlying disease, and others incorrectly controlled for deaths caused by high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol, two direct effects of obesity.
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