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Page 8 McHENRY PLAINDEALER SactlonA Wedn--day, August 21, 1985 Nation V Danger increased Airport alarms down in storms By Timothy Bannon United Press International WASHINGTON - Detroit Metro Airport's windshear alarms have , been knocked out five times in four months by thunderstorms, during lich dangerous down-drafts sus­ sed of causing at least one recent crash joften occur, aviation Following! thunderstorm Aug. 13 it Metro Airport, which handles nearly 1,200 take-offs and landings daily, the alarms stood mute for 12 \ hours, officials familiar with the problem said. Too few spare parts were avail­ able for a normal repair, but techni­ cians jury-rigged the system back to life by scavenging a component from a previously damaged electri­ cal board, said officials with the Professional Airways System Spe­ cialists, a union of Federal Aviation A d m i n i s t r a t i o n e l e c t r i c a l technicians. A windshear, in the form of pow­ erful down-drafts of air, is an infre­ quent but extremely hazardous weather condition -- often associat­ ed with thunderstorms -- for air­ craft during take-offs and landings. An undetected windshear is being examined as a possible cause in the Aug. 2 crash of Delta Flight 191 that killed 133 persons near the Dallas* Forth Worth International Airport. The crash has raised questions about the efficiency of the wind- shear warning network at airports across the country. The FAA is re­ searching more advanced wind- shear detection systems. Declining to. be identified by name, the Detroit union officials said thunderstorms disabled the windshear alarm system on May 18 and 31, July 7, Aug. 13 and last Sunday, the latter an outage that Officials to honor teens for projects WASHINGTON (UPI) - The gov­ ernment will honor more than 250 teenagers and youth groups nation­ wide for activities of "exceptional caliber" that include establishing high school programs to combat drunken driving, Education Secre­ tary William Bennett said Tuesday. Bennett said the International Youth Year Awards will go to 257 groups or individuals between the ages of 13 and 21, who were selected from more than 1,000 nominations by governors, mayors and other of­ ficials in each state and the District of Columbia. There are five or six winners from each state. Those selected "have trans­ formed ideas into programs, turned public ignorance and apathy into public awareness and action, and forged new paths to civic better­ ment," Bennett said. Among those receiving engraved plaques will be Justin Gullekson, Grand Forks, N.D., who helped es­ tablish several local chapters of Students Against Drunk Driving; Lana Kang, Little Falls, N.J., who organized a campaign to donate toys to a local children's hospital and raised several hundred dollars for Ethiopian famine relief; and, Kathy Quon of San Francisco who organized a pilot project in her high school for the Chinese American Voter's Education Committee. Bennett said the 257 recipients will be recognized in regional cere­ monies. The secretary's awards project is the department's chief initiative observing International Youth Year, which was designated for 1985 by the United Nations and reinforced by a presidential proclamation. lasted two hours. "When you need it the most is when it gives you the most prob­ lems," one union official said. "When the weather is bad, that's when you want the system under you." Richard Stafford, a Washington FAA spokesman, said the agency" has not had reports of thunder­ storms causing failures of wind- shear alarm systems. He said the windshear alarms are in use at 70 airports and will be installed at 40 more by mid-1986. The windshear alarms systems typically consist of one wind direc­ tion and velocity sensor in the mid­ dle of an airport. Five more sen­ sors, called remotes, are placed on top of telephone pedes or towers around the periphery of the airport. Linked to a computer, the sensors compare wind direction and veloci­ ty at the center of the airport and at points around the field in attempt to identify a windshear. At airports that have reported nu­ merous windshear incidents, such as Denver's Stapleton International Airport and New Orleans Interna­ tional Airport, systems with as many as 10 peripheral sensors have been installed, Stafford said. A flight leaving the New Orleans airport in July 1982 crashed in a McHENRY 815-344-1344 nearby suburban neighborhood and killed 145 people on board the plane and eight on the ground in an acci­ dent blamed by the National Tran- s p o r a t i o n S a f e t y B o a r d o n windshear. Technicians interviewed by Unit­ ed P^ess International at other air­ ports say they usually have only enough spare parts to do electrical repairs at one remote sensor sta­ tion. The FAA acknowledges that it has received complaints about spare parts and is studying the problem. At the Detroit airport, union offi­ cials said repairs were required at two remote sensor stations, requir­ ing technicians to improvise with an electrical component from another damaged part until more spares could be ordered from the FAA parts depot in Oklahoma City. "Lightning causes us a problem, n o d o u b t a b o u t i t , " C h u c k Houghtby, supervisor of the auto­ mated radar systems at Detroit, said. 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