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NATIONAL N(WS »ROM AROUND I Hi C0UH1RV Rescuers sift through Everglades muck for remains from crash ■ otAHLn investigators said the recovery of the wreckage would be stowed by the difficult terrain MIAMI (API — With • aharpahooter *< outing lor alligator* and pouonou* anakea. recovery worker* Monday mcov •red I he flight data recorder from Vaiulet Might S«2. along wilh disintegrated plane parts and human remain* no bigger than a knee Worker* brought in heavy equipment, team* of diver* walked *id« by tide, marching the murky *w*mp inch by inch, and Nevy *aivage *pec»ali*t* uaed »onar to look for the plane'* black bo* recorder* The data recorder, which could yield < luas to the t4uw at tha crash was being t«k«n to National Transportation Safety Boar<l headquarter* in Washington lor analysis NTSB spokesman Mika Hanson said ha did not know tho condition of tho rncordar Bauson said ho was not sura or hot hoi thu cockpit vutea rncordar had lawn taw wad By midday save® body Iwga of rantaios had boon removed "I don't bold any hops wail Bod any racovarabfe largo part* of people." said rot trad Dado County Medical K\arm nor fosaph Davis, who is taking part in tha investigation Victims' rnUtivn* grow native "Tboy should hava had a trans or a radar or somethin# THey’ve gut that kind at equipment. raid Sequel Perry. dUugh ter-tn law ofcrash victim Wilhntntna Per rv of Miami. "By the lima they get out lh«te with thoe* •lltgMtur* and stuff. shell be *11 at* up Th* Atlanta bound DG-9 crashed Sat urday »h*>rtlv nfi»t takeoff front Miami * airport with 104 paaaengere and five craw mranbara TH# craw radioed urgently about smoke in the cockpit and cabin before Ih# lower loot contact Investigators Mid the recovery of the wreckage would he alow be* aura of the difficult condition* heat in the mid-MH, «warm» of moaquitoe* and horaeftie*. ra»w sharp wwgnm. and water 6 inches to 5 feet deep over mud that some local* estimate t* 30 to 40 Wi ilwp Thi* i» lough Hull out I hero." Net ton el Transportation Safety Hoard vice chair man Kolwrt Francis wild At the «im» Momhy, about 30 diver* l» rubberised *utU to protect them from •kin irritating git fuel walked through ihe water to thin* thei lasted only IS to 20 minutes because of the grueling condi i too* A marksman accompanied them to watch for alligator* end water moccasin* The searcher* filled beg* with aircraft part* end human remain.* that Metro Dade police i jndr Al Harper Mid were no big got than a knee. They're actually rauv nrtng finger * and hand* and feet," Harper said. of dedicated female pilot ■ AVIATOR: Candt Kubeck once crossed picket Imes to pilot commercial flights DALLAS {AF| — A» » teen ager. Cunrti Kubeck wnt captivat ed by the airplanes that flaw over bar California home. She want od lo fly, just like her grandfather and uncle* had done in World War I and Vietnam. Her love led her to challenge Air Force cadets to a flying con test and to cross picket lines to work for now-defunct Eastern Airlines Her favorite TV show was IVmgs. Kubeck, believed to be the first woman commercial jetlin er captain to die in a U.S. crash, was among 109 people killed Saturday when her Valujet plane nosedived into the Florida Everglades. But she didn't love flying enough to take chances, her hus band said Monday. "She would have everything checked out." said Roger Kubeck. Mr Kubeck, himself a pilot for America West Airlines, agreed to be interviewed by The Associated Press because "I don't want her to be a statistic.'* Her husband said Kubeck. 35. often saw military planes flying over her childhood home near San Diego She was close to her grandfather, who flew biplanes during World War I "She wm a pilot, that'* all there wu to it." said Mr Kubeck. 38 "She wu not a girl pilot She thought of herself as •mo of the boy* " Kubeck graduated hum Metro politan State College of Denver, where the atudied aviation and competed on a flight team that challenged the nearby Air Force Academy team to a HyoR, said her father. Hugh Chamberlin She began a* an instructor pilot at small airfields and work ing at various commuter and freight airlines baaed in Califor nia and Arizona. Her carear included a Mint as an air traffic controller at El Paso Internal ion a! Airport In 1989, she cmaaed the pick et lines at Eastern Airlines, a move that put her in a major air line cockpit for the first time but earned her the lasting enmity of some of her fellow pilot* Having been turned down at American Airline*. Delta Air lines and United. KuberJk taw the Eastern job as her big break, her husband said "She'd taken a lot of flack for her crossing the line, but I’ll tell you what, *he loved that job." ne said She became a first offU cer in Eastern's biggest plane, the Airbus 300, he said She left Eastern when it closed in 1991 When Vaiufet started in 1993. she was hired almost immediately Reward Yourself!! I I \li\ in k \\ VK I liiii |Nni| Jihl *tiu in i i |ri|i M.l nAlmtuit III • MiN t;iii |»nl> ''lartJHs; In* » \|.i> 'N 7 p m At N| K \| I \ / \| \\ /I \| \\|) 2 « U Ntii/j)i\ i hi \*»••.. \ ii Hu k \iKinlim in iKi/l.iii Ask about COLLEGE CREDITS! FREE FOOD and ittfirmurkm! 7W*. May 14 Travel Adventure Than. 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