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Challenge
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turers end the day with a stay in a
traditional Maori village.
On day six, the group takes an
eight-hour hike through New
Zealand’s volcanic Tongariro
Plateau. Day 11 includes a 3,000
foot mountain-bike descent, and the
following day, participants take a
30-second free-fall tandem skydive.
Ddys 15 and 16 include a sunrise
swim with hundreds of dolphins.
The activities continue for 60
days and include other events, such
as a three-day trek across New
Zealand’s Southern Alps, sea kayak
ing, jet boating and scuba diving.
In the midst of the adventure, team
members take time to hear speakers
discuss cultural issues and practices.
The lectures are later used in papers
and homework assignments for par
ticipants who choose to earn school
credit for the program. Getting credit
is not a requirement, and many peo
ple choose to participate strictly for
personal enrichment.
Senior psychology major Emily
Garten opted to earn credit for the pro
gram. Garten is graduating in June, but
she will be attending Pacific Chal
lenge’s Southeast Asia program in the
fall for pleasure and experience.
“(The program) surpassed any
thing I’ve ever dreamed or hoped
for,” she said.
University students Lea Payton
and Hiroka Okana are currently on
the 50-day Southeast Asia trip,
which visits Thailand, Cambodia,
Laos and Vietnam. The two students
are receiving credit through the Uni
versity and said it was easy to get.
“The international studies pro
gram at (the University) is very open
and willing to oversee students who
wish to gain credits while traveling,”
Payton said in an e-mail interview.
Payton and Okana are among a
group of 18 people currently travel
ing in Southeast Asia. Program
highlights include climbing Viet
nam’s highest mountain, rafting
through limestone canyons and tak
ing a two-day boat journey down
the Mekong River.
The itineraries for both the Aus
tralia and Southeast Asia trips are
designed to be both exciting and ed
ucational, according to trip leader
Rachel Sanson. Sanson, a New
Zealander, leads the yearly trips and
said, “It’s absolutely the best job I’ve
ever had.”
Sanson is enthusiastic about the
design of the trip and said the bonds
built between team members are
lasting ones.
“They invite us to their weddings
and will call and tell us they’ve had
children,” she said.
Teams include participants from
all over the world, and are best suit
ed for ages 18-30. No outdoor expe
rience is necessary, and the program
is designed for people of all physi
cal levels.
The New Zealand and Australia
trip costs $5,650 for 60 days, and the
Southeast Asia trip is $4,500 for 50
days. To learn more about Pacific
Challenge, check out its Web site at
www.pacificchallenge.org.
Erin Cooney is a freelance reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald.
Plane crash
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Dominicans, returning to or visiting
their homeland.
The plane lifted off at 9:14 a.m.,
more than an hour after its sched
uled departure. It was not clear why
the flight was late, and the Federal
Aviation Administration would not
say. By 9:17 a.m., it had nose-dived
into the blue-collar community of
Rockaway Beach, which sits on a
sliver of land separating Jamaica
Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. The
plane destroyed four houses and
damaged more than a dozen others.
For a nation feeling under siege, the
crash was yet another horrific tragedy.
It was especially hard-hitting for
Rockaway, a waterfront community
that lost dozens of firefighters and po
lice officers in the collapse of the
World Trade Center’s twin towers.
Linda Spadaro, who lives about
three blocks from the crash site, said
she saw flaming debris falling from
the plane. ,
“I saw an engine fall off,” Spadaro
said. “It just fell off. The plane blew
up to a huge fireball. This is horrible.
I can’t believe this is happening. ”
Billowing black smoke from the
crash was visible more than 20 miles
away. Blocks away, another fire broke
out from a fallen engine, authorities
said.
“It’s terrible,” Ellen O’Toole, a
Peninsula General Hospital worker,
said nearly four hours after the
crash. “There’s no survivors.”
Bill Schwartz, a plumber who
was driving through the neighbor
hood, said he saw the crash.
“The plane was at a nosedive,”
said Schwartz. “So I pulled over to
look at it. It didn’t seem right to me.
Then I saw flames coming from the
left-hand side of the plane. Then I
saw one of the wings broke off. You
could see it breaking apart bit by bit. ”
More than 100 relatives of the
passengers awaited them in the city
of Santo Domingo, and news of the
crash caused an outpouring of grief.
President Hipolito Mejia declared
three days of mourning on the is
land nation.
New York Gov. George Pataki re
ported that the pilot may have pur
posely dumped fuel in Jamaica Bay
before the plane went down, possi
ble evidence that he knew his plane
was in danger.
But the former director of NTSB,
Peter Goelz, said ruptured fuel tanks
in one or both of the plane’s wings
more likely caused the fuel in the bay.
“It would be highly unusual in
that period of time that they were
dumping fuel,” said Goelz. “It’s like
ly that all of the crew’s energies
would be devoted toward keeping
the plane in the air. ”
NTSB took the lead in the investi
gation, underscoring the govern
ment’s view that the crash was an ac
cident. The safety board, the FAA
and independent aviation safety ex
perts said they were leaning toward
a mechanical failure because the en
gine appeared to fall off and because
the crash happened so early in flight.
This particular plane had 88
“service difficulty reports” filed
with the FAA since it was bought
new by American in 1988, accord
ing to a database analysis by Air Data
Research in Helotes, Texas. In the
past five years, 49 out of 54 of those
reports have dealt with corrosion is
sues. But neither the number of re
ports nor the corrosion problems are
unusual, especially for a plane that
flies between the Caribbean and
New York, according to Air Data Re
search President John Eakin.
One of the two engines had gone
9,788 hours since its last overhaul,
while the other had gone 694, said
American spokesman A1 Becker.
Those engines are supposed to get
overhauled every 10,000 hours. It’s
still unclear which engine fell.
The crash could not have come at
a worse time for American Airlines
or the industry as a whole. Already
in financial trouble before the Sept.
11 attacks, carriers laid off thou
sands of employees after the suicide
hijackings. Congress promptly ap
proved a $15 billion assistance pack
age that included $5 billion in cash
and $10 billion in loan guarantees.
Travel was slowly picking up as the
holiday season approached, but ana
lysts said Monday’s tragedy will like
ly prolong the industry’s recovery.
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