Two^ Cargo Planes Collide at Lydda.
Killing 2 Workers, Wrecking Craft
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A TWA cargo
plane and an Israel Air Force
transport collided and burned on
the main runway at Lydda Airport
early Monday in an accident that
killed two civilian military em-
ployes and injured two others.
Minister of Transport Shimon
Peres launched an immediate in-
vestigation and sent condolences
to the families of the victims,
Shmuel Wolf and Aharon Abutbul.
Lydda Airport was shut down
from shortly after 2:30 a.m., when
the accident occurred, until noon
Monday, delaying the departures
of hundreds of passengers includ-
ing Ambassador Itzhak Rabin, who
was on his way back to Washing.
ton.
The accident spotlighted mount-
ing - criticism by pilots of allegedly
inadequate traffic safety controls
at Lydda, Israel's only interna-
tional air terminal. Those charges
are also under investigation by a
special 'panel appointed earlier by
Peres.
The transport minister promis-
ed in the Bnesset that he would
"publish and faithfully carry
out" the findings and recom-
mendations of the investigators.
According to first reports, the
TWA Boeing 707 was making its
takeoff run along the main runway
when its right wing slammed into
an Air Force Stratocruiser trans-
port that was being towed by a
tractor.
- The TWA plane had been cleared
for takeoff by the Lydda control
tower only moments before the
crash. Investigators will have to
determine why the Stratocruiser
was being hauled across a suppos-
edly clear runway. •
Peres said in the Knesset that
the committee investigating the ac-
cident, headed by former Air
Force Commander Dan Tulkow-
sky, would also "consider operat-
ing procedures and arrangements
at Lydda Airport" and determine
whether they are consonant. with
safety. -
Israel Aids Victims
of Colombian Flood;
Pakistan Says No
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Colombian
children, victims of the recent
floods, are to receive a shipment
of drugs and food from Israel.
The shipment was turned over
to the Colombian ambassador at
Lydda Airport and then flown to
Colombia by an El Al transport
plane. The shipment arrived on
Nov. 27. The aid was provided by
the Magen David Adorn, Israel's
official red cross agency.
Another shipment of medicines
and first aid for Pakistani victims
also was being prepared by the
Magen David Adorn, when the
International Red Cross notified
them that Pakistani authorities
were refusing any help from
Competing With Arms
Sent by Russia Hurts
Welfare Budget—Pincus
LONDON (JTA)- — Louis A.
Pincus, chairman of the Jewish
Agency Executive, told Anglo-
Jewish leaders that "It is the
Israelis who are shouldering the
burden of our defense, and it is
costing us the shirts off our backs
almost literally."
The "Intrusion of the Soviet
Union" in the Middle East "has
meant that Israel had to indulge
in an unprecedented arms race;
she had to spend hundreds of mil-
lions of pounds for her security."
Because of this "enormous ex-
penditure," Pincus said, "we have
had to look elsewhere for the funds
needed for immigration, social wel-
fare, education and health serv-
ices," which "stand today on the
brink, of , ,
The TWA plane was bound for
Zurich and Frankfurt with a cargo
of vegetables and full fuel tanks.
The pilot said he tried to avoid a
head-on collision by veering left
when he spotted the Stratocruiser
blocking his takeoff path. But his
wing struck the Israeli transport
and the tractor, Instantly killing
the two tractormen.
The TWA pilot and his crew
jumped to safety seconds before
both planes exploded and barn
into flames. Both were a total
loss.
Eye-witnesses said that if the
TWA jet had been a passenger
plane the tragedy would have
been a disaster of the first magni-
tude. The two dead men were em-
ployes of Israel Aircraft Indus-
tries Ltd., a private firm that does
contract work for the Israel Air
Force.
It was the first serious accident
at Lydda Airport in several years.
But it focussed attention on recent
charges by the Israel Airline Pi-
lots' Association that there are
serious safety shortcomings at
Lydda.
The charges came to light after
a plane carrying Premier Golda
Meir to the United States last
month narrowly avoided a mid-air
collision over Lydda.
Subsequent reports said there
had been 58 complaints of near ac-
cidents in the air over Lydda in
1970. The pilots blamed a short-
age of navigation equipment in the
Lydda control tower and the fact
that Lydda has only one interna-
tional landing strip. They also
charged poor discipline of airport
personnel and inadequate safety
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