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Jet crashes in violent hail storm
By Peggy Harris
The Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An
American Airlines jetliner with
145 people aboard ran off the run
way, broke into pieces and burst
into flames after landing in a fierce
hailstorm, killing at least nine peo
ple, including the pilot.
Investigators want to know what
the pilot was told about the violent
weather before he attempted to
land Flight 1420 at the Little Rock
airport just before midnight Tues
day. They said, however, that it
was too early to say whether the
rapidly moving storm caused or
contributed to the crash.
The flight data and cockpit
voice recorders, which were taken
to Washington for analysis,
should reveal what the pilot
knew.
"A fire started at the front of the
plane and spread back,” passenger
Barrett Baber said. “Once the
smoke got too thick, there was
nothing we could do. People were
screaming, ‘God, please save us!”’
The turbulent flight from Dallas
to Little Rock had been delayed
two hours because of bad weather.
Some passengers said the plane
seemed to be coming in for landing
faster than normal, although others
said it did not seem unusual.
The MD-82 slid off the left side of
a runway, past an access road and
whipped around a metal tower.
The stanchion acted like a can
opener, peeling back the plane’s
thin shell on the left side from the
captain’s controls through the
first-class section. When the plane
finally came to a stop, its tail was
facing away from the runway on a
low spot near an Arkansas River
backwater.
Fire engulfed the plane as fuel
spilled. With flames closing in
and their clothes drenched with
aviation fuel, terrified passengers
squeezed through a twisted emer
gency exit and scrambled out gap
ing holes in the fuselage. Others
jumped off a burning wing into
the swamp.
"All I thought was that I was go
ing to die,” passenger Bonnie
Montgomery said. “Everyone was
pushing and pulling to get out of
that plane. We were on our hands
and knees, and the smoke was so
thick we couldn’t breathe. Even I
pushed a few people because your
natural instinct to survive just
kicks in.”
Hospitals said they treated 83
people for injuries, mostly cuts
and bums. Another 51 people
were unhurt and were reunited
with friends and relatives in a the
ater at a nearby aerospace muse
um. The coroner said nine people
were killed, leaving two people
unaccounted for.
The fatalities were the first
aboard a U.S. carrier in nearly 1
1/2 years. They also were the first
in a commercial carrier at Little
Rock’s airport in its 82-year histo
ry
A violent downpour, steady
winds of 50 mph and gusts of up
to 75 mph were reported in the
area just before the plane landed.
The storm had a peak gust of 87
mph six minutes after the crash.
Radar images reviewed
Wednesday by the National
Weather Service showed the
storm arriving at Little Rock’s air
port about the same time the jet ar
rived.
“The scenario that the storm ap
proached one end of the runway
as the plane approached from the
other probably is correct,” meteo
rologist George Wilken said.
American Airlines executive
vice president Bob Baker said reg
ular weather updates were relayed
to the plane’s captain, Richard
Buschmann.
George Black, a spokesman for
the National Transportation Safe
ty Board, said investigators want
to know what Buschmann was
told about the approaching storm
and the deteriorating conditions.
“It’s ultimately a pilot’s deci
sion to land or not, but they have
to base that on the information
they have,” he said.
There was no distress call from
the cockpit before the landing,
said William Shumann, a Federal
Aviation Administration
spokesman.
American Airlines’ chief pilot
said he would not have attempted
to land the plane if wind speeds
exceeded 57.5 mph.
“If someone told me there were
50 knot gusts at the airport, I
would be leaving town,” said Ce
cil Ewell, who oversees all Ameri
can Airlines’ pilots.
Black also said that power went
out at the airport about the time of
the accident, although he said it
wasn’t known whether the acci
dent caused the power outage or
whether any power outage con
tributed to the accident.
Buschmann apparently died at
the controls. The first officer was
badly injured but survived.
A check of the plane’s mainte
nance records revealed no major
problems. Twelve years ago, the
plane lost power in one of its en
gines during a landing in Las Ve
gas because the housing around a
part had worn away.
President Clinton said he and
Hillary Rodham Clinton were sad
dened to learn of the crash. “We
join the American people in ex
tending our deepest sympathies to
the families of those who died or
were injured,” Clinton said in a
statement.
The deaths were the first in an
U.S. commercial airline accident
since Dec. 28, 1997, when a
woman was killed aboard a Unit
ed Airlines 747 that encountered
severe turbulence over the Pacific.
Last year, aviation officials cel
ebrated a fatality-free year aboard
U.S. commercial flights. U.S. air
lines also had one of their safest
years ever in 1997, a year after one
of the deadliest on record.
Gates’, Microsoft lawyers’ stories differ
By Ted Bridis
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — As the gov
ernment’s antitrust case against
Microsoft Corp. winds toward an
end in federal court, it seems at
times that company chairman Bill
Gates and lawyers representing
the software giant are reading
from different scripts.
This week, for the second time
during the high-stakes trial, com
ments made by Gates have under
cut the company’s legal argu
ments. In the latest instance,
while Microsoft argued in court
that new devices might cut
deeply into its business, Gates
wrote in Newsweek that personal
computers — which depend al
most exclusively on the compa
ny’s Windows operating system
— would remain the industry
standard for years.
The mixed message — saying
one thing to the judge and another
to potential investors — was im
mediately noted by the govern
ment’s lead lawyer and a witness
this week, when the trial resumed
after a three-month recess. The
government lawyer, David Boies,
referred to “a cleavage of what the
lawyers want to argue in court
and what the company says.”
In court Wednesday, Microsoft
lawyer Michael Lacovara tried to
minimize the significance of the
billionaire chairman’s claims.
“Isn’t this exactly what you’d
expect Mr. Gates to say, given his
company’s business?” he asked.
The argument that Microsoft
faces stiff competition from a new
generation of technology devices
is intended to persuade the judge
that the high-tech industry is suf
ficiently robust despite com
plaints about Microsoft’s alleged
aggression toward software rivals.
But in his Newsweek article,
Gates wrote that personal com
puters would work “in tandem
with other cool devices” rather
than be replaced by them.
“Given my job, it’s hardly sur
prising that I’d say this,” Gates
wrote, without mentioning his
company’s legal problems. “But
I’m betting Microsoft’s future on
it.”
In seven paragraphs, Gates —
famous for his business acumen
and his vast fortune — managed
to give the government another
club to use against Microsoft in
the courtroom. Microsoft even in
cluded a prominent link to the ar
ticle on its corporate Web site.
The government’s first witness
in the new phase of the trial,
economist Franklin Fisher, said
Microsoft’s influence is not
threatened by any new devices or
emerging technologies, such as
Internet TV, powerful game con
soles or handheld appliances.
“I don’t believe that’s likely to
happen, and according to a recent
Newsweek article, neither does
Bill Gates,” Fisher told the judge
Tuesday.
It was the second time in
months that comments from Mi
crosoft’s top executive outside the
courtroom stood in sharp contrast
to the company’s position inside
the courtroom.
Earlier in the trial, economist
Richard Schmalensee explained
to Boies under oath why he
couldn’t provide precise figures
about Microsoft’s profits, saying
the company’s decidedly low
tech accounting techniques “do
not always rise to the level of so
phistication one might expect.”
When Boies pressed him,
Schmalensee added: “They
record operating system sales by
hand on sheets of paper.”
Weeks later, Gates described in
his newly published book how
Microsoft tracks sales figures digi
tally by product and country, to
determine exactly how sales com
pare with budget.
“When figures are in electronic
form,... workers can study them,
annotate them, look at them in
any amount of detail,” Gates
wrote in “Business at the Speed of
Thought.”
Outside the courtroom, Boies
said he never believed
Schmalensee’s explanation about
paper ledgers at Microsoft.
“I believe Gates,” Boies said.
“This time.”
Microsoft is particularly sensi
tive about questions about Gates’
credibility.
The government previously
played hours of his videotaped
pretrial deposition in court, until
the judge remarked: “I think it’s
evident to every spectator that, for
whatever reasons, in many re
spects Mr. Gates has not been par
ticularly responsive.”
Gates himself said in an earlier
interview that he “answered
every question, completely, truth
fully through many, many, many
long days.”