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e PAGE 12 - FLAlNUbALIiiK - i UhSUHt. nu v biuuLiii **• i«o» general \ Hews (S * • - Damages for air tragedy are slow by Kurt Begalka Shaw-Free News Service , Art Gait has owned Gait Flying Service, Inc., ior some 30 years and said he has never encountered anything like it. On March 19,1982, an Illinois Air National Guard KC- 135 tanker exploded over the village of Greenwood, killing all 27 people on board and raining debris across a three-mile-wide area. Gait estimates some 200 men and 40 vehicles par­ ticipated in the search, many of them heavy buses and trucks. There was one large helicopter and five or six "gunship". style choppers. In the spring of the year, the pavement was brittle. The heavy trucks cracked runways and en­ trance roads. The military used Gait's lounge as a com­ mand post. Trucks were parked on the strip and grass. They tied up private traffic. "The people that were here said, 'Don't worry about a thing. We'll take care of it,' " Gait said. Gait had Curran Construction Co. make an estimate of the repair costs in April. It totaled $25,900 and included patching the en­ trance road, the roadway to angars, taxiway and run­ way. Gait points to the undulating double pad around the gas pumps. The U.S. Air Force offered him $11,400. "I told them that I couldn't very well put it back in shape for that/' Gait said. They offered him $15,000. "It's very hard to pay a $25,000 bill with $15,000," G a i t s a i d . . The Air Force denied his claim entirely. "They just walked around and made their own estimate of things," Gait said. "I don't know whether they were Air Force people or National Guard." He has attempted to work through channels. "I think it should b e s e t t l e d amicably," Gait said. "I hope the politicos will put some pressure on them." Gait doubts whether $25,000, given inflation, will even cover the damages. "I would do the same thing again," Gait acknowledged. "But I don't think that they treated me right." 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Citing the Military Claims Act, Whitaker said: "We are not allowed to pay for those services that are provided as a public service." McHenry County Board Chairman Clint Claypool is still angry about .the settlement the county received. He has written the Air Force and received "form letters" explaining that certain corts are not covered. Claypool does not believe the court costs would be worth it, and asked: "Where can I go?" Like Gait and Hay, he contacted state Sen. Jack Schaffer to attempt to reach a solution out of court. Schaffer, in turn, contacted U.S. Rep. Phil Crane and U.S. Sen. Charles Percy. "Primarily, this is a federal thing," Schaffer said. He hopes both sides can hold an informal meeting at the site to discuss the matter. "A lot of people with stars and bars went around saying, 'don't worry, we'll take care of it.'. Some things were taken care of and s o m e t h i n g s weren't," Schaffer said. 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