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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1982)
LUXEMBOURG (AP) - A Soviet jetliner with 77 people aboard skidded off a runway at Luxembourg’s airport Wednesday, crashed into a grove of trees and burst into flames Police said as many as 10 people were killed and the others suffered burns and frac tures Witnesses said the Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 suddenly veered to the right, shot into the woods and caught fire A police spokesman said the cause of the crash was not immediately determined and that casualty tolls were being revised as searchers combed the woods for victims of the crash, which occurred at 8:23 p.m. (3:23 p.m. EDT). Students interested in working for Ross Anthony, congressional candidate in the 4th District, are invited to an organizational meeting on Thursday, September 30, at 5 p.m. in the E.M.U. Century Room D. Paid: Students for Ross Anthony. 911 Pearl Street. Eugene, Ore. 97440 Crash of Soviet airplane leaves 10 dead, 65 hurt mmai repons pui ine aeatn toll at 53. That was revised downward to 12 and later in the night a police spokesman said the number of dead was no higher than 10. He said the pilot and co-pilot were slightly in jured He said a precise count would not be possible until the Soviet Embassy in Luxembourg provided a passenger list and the number of injured in several hospitals was compared to the list. "So far, we haven't received the passenger list,” the spokesman said about seven hours after the crash. Many of the injured suffered severe burns and were taken to a burn center in Metz, France. 37 miles to the south. The other survivors were taken to five ho spitals in the city. Passengers scrambled out of the burning jet as a series of explosions rocked it and flames engulfed the fuselage, witnesses said "We heard an extremely loud engine noise that lasted for a tew seconds,” said a man who lives next to Findel Airport “Then there was silence,” he said, followed by a series of explosions that continued for about 20 minutes. Airport officials said the air craft landed at 8:23 p.m. (4:23 p.m EDT), and appeared to have made a proper landing until it suddenly turned to the right and skidded about 1,000 yards It shot over a small pond and plunged into some woods, knocking down trees for about 100 yards before it came to a halt at the end of a small valley, according to airport officials and television reports The explosions followed and the plane caught fire Rescue workers brought powerful lights to the scene of the crash and called out for survivors in several languages, including Russian Polish honor interned leader WARSAW, Poland (AP) - More than 8,000 people jammed St Brigid's Church in Gdansk and spilled onto the streets to honor interned Solidarity chiet Lech Walesa Wednesday at a special Roman Catholic Mass marking his 39th birthday, witnesses said The Walesa family priest, Father Henryk Jankowski, delivering the homily, called for release of Walesa and others interned under martial law and for the revival of the Soviet bloc's only independent trade union In Warsaw, Roman Catholic primate Archbishop Jozef Glemp told Western journalists that "major disturbances can be expected" if authorities outlaw Solidarity
