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GOLDENDALE, WASHINGTON
FEBRUARY 22,2017--11
FLIGHT from Page I
In recent years, investiga-
tors are facing a new phe-
nomenon: terrible tragedies
of intentional destruction
with high loss of life con-
found the efforts to resolve
these events. The new factor
that we face is understood to
be murder in the skies. That
term may seem too harsh
and rude to be associated
with flight safety analysis,
but the phenomenon has
reared its ugly head time
after time in recent years.
While the number of these
tragedies is very low con-
sidering the huge number of
safe flights that crisscross
the globe, the isolated events
wherein airliners are inten-
tionally destroyed and peo-
ple murdered still confound
our efforts to keep them
from happening. The histo-
ry of intentional airliner de-
struction dates even before
World War II, and as airlin-
ers carry more passengers,
this diabolical trend for
political or ideological ob-
jectives is nearly incompre-
hensible for investigators
and safety officials; but the
forensic reconstruction that
follows consistently reveals
the irrefutable evidence of
the criminal act.
The intentional destruc-
tion of airliners is not new.
In 1983, Soviet jets shot
down Korean Airlines flight
007 near the Siberian coast
as it flew from Anchorage
to Seoul. That same year,
Libyan operatives planted a
bomb which brought down
PanAm 103 near Lockerbee,
Scotland. Those intentional
acts killed 539 persons. In
1989, terrorists brought
down a French (ATA flight
772) over Niger, Africa, with
the loss of 170 passengers
and crew. Also in 1989, Avi-
anca flight 203, a Boeing 727,
was blown up by the Medel-
lin drug cartel over Colom-
bia with the loss of 107 lives.
In 1999, Egypt Air flight
990 with 217 passengers and
crew aboard was intention-
ally crashed into the ocean
off of Nantucket Island, by
relief copilot Gameel A1 Ba-
touti. The 21st century be-
gan with the greatest trag-
edy in aviation. The use of
four airliners to kill more
than 3,000 on Sept. 11, 2001
was unfathomable in the
history of aviation disasters
by Saudi Arabian citizen
Mohamed Atta and eighteen
others. As recently as 2015 a
Metrojet flight 9268 (AirBus
320 flying Russian tourists)
from Egypt, was destroyed
by an ISIS bomb over the Si-
nai, killing all 224 aboard.
Likewise, in 2015, German
Wings copilot Andreas Lub-
itz intentionally crashed an
Airbus 320 into the French
Alps, after locking the cap-
tain out of the cockpit, re-
sulting in the death of 150
passengers and crew.
In 2014, news captivated
the entire world to follow-
ing the disappearance and
search in the south Indi-
an Ocean for the missing
Malaysia Air flight 370,
(3 March 2014) a Boeing
777-200ER. All available
evidence today points to
an intentional destruction
by pilot(s) Zaharie Ahmed
Shah and/or Fariq Abdul
Hamid, diving it into the
sea in the far reaches of the
south Indian Ocean. Off ra-
dar screens and in silence
for over five hours the pas-
senger airplane flew deep
into ocean airspace without
a clue to its location. Despite
a highly technical search ef-
fort for over a year, mapping
thousands of miles of ocean
bottom, the wreckage loca-
tion remains a mystery. Not
a single sign of any of the 239
people aboard the airplane
has been found.
Regularly, to our disbe-
lief, these horrible acts are
state-sponsored,
The deliberate shoot
down of Boeing 777, Ma-
laysia Air 17, July 17, 2014
The folDwing account
from European investiga-
tive reports details yet an-
other senseless destruction
of an innocent airliner. A
complex investigation by
several independent bodies
have very recently complet-
ed their preliminary work.
The Dutch Safety Board
(OVV), the Joint Investiga-
tion Team (JIT) comprised
of Australia, Belgium, Ma-
laysia, Netherlands, and
Ukraine, employing 200 in-
vestigators, examined thou-
sands of wreckage parts,
500,000 videos and photo-
graphs, thousands of satel-
lite images, (US and Euro-
pean Space Agency-ESA),
interviewed more than 200
witnesses, reviewed 150,000
telephone calls, and 5 bil-
lion internet pages. They
presented their findings to
their governments on Sep-
tember 28, 2016. Addition-
ally, independent research
• organizations such as UK-
based Bellingcat and US-
based STRATFOR, have
reached similar and conclu-
sive findings. The investiga-
tion is on-going, as the JIT
investigators explore hun:
dreds of additional witness-
es, records of phone conver-
sations, and videos that are
emerging.
Part 2 of this story will ap-
pear next week.
JAIL from Page I
"If there's a person who's late
to visit [an inmate], we're go-
ing to let them visit. You're
conveying that you're just
doing your job. There's noth-
ing personal."
Bianchi, who's had a long
and varied career in law en-
forcement, is now on conver-
sational terms with inmates
he used to chase on the out-
side. But he also acknowledg-
es the inherent strain of the
work, and the importance of
reducing negativity for em-
ployees' sake.
"Mother Theresa wouldn't
have the patience for this job.
You have to treat [inmates]
with respect and decency,
knowing the things they've
done. [On the other hand],
you're looking at human be-
ings in cages. It can be emo-
tionally draining. [The offic-
ers] do an incredible duty."
Mental health
Bianchi estimates 15 per-
cent of the jail population
have mental health issues.
"A lot of the time, the prob-
lem is• they don't like their
meds and stop taking them.
subjects simply don't know three times daily, released from jail back on
where they are. Getting out their feet. Bianchi says it
Bianchi sees the jail's role The control room, which would be nice to have transi-
as a support system. "The Songer calls "the nerve tional resources, say a work-
goal is to not lump ordinary center of the jail," looks out release program across the
criminals and people with over two floors of cell-blocks, street, but for the time being
mental illness together," but Cameras allow the control- it's just an idea. The jail does
to identify and properly ad- room officer to monitor cells, partner with Adult Proba-
for qualifying inmates. And
there are jobs within the jail
itself: the kitchen and laun-
dry are run by inmates.
In the future, Bianchi
would like to see the jail
partner with the Fort Van-
couver Library System,
and the Columbia Gorge
Community College, which
offers free online classes.
"This is jail [as opposed
to prison], so they aren't in
here that long. But we'd like
to have them do more with
dress the latter. Goldendale's hallways and other areas of tion to set up outside work which• offers GED programs, their time than just sit."
small size is an asset in this the jail, and to unlock doors
regard: officers see the same remotely. This"indirectsys-~f:: i ]
faces and get to know which tem" means inmates don't Dogs of the Gorge AnLmal
residents have mental ill- need constantescorts.
hess. On the day of the tour, Ira,
Another issue is that pea- Deputy Randy Wells is run- All you can eat
ple with mental illness may ning control room. Wells, a
self-medicate with street ~D~;HF~)T~A Dinner
drugs. In those cases, thejail patrol officer, is manning El t
acts as a holding area, allow- the post while recuperating
mg the drugs to wear off so
subjects can be evaluated
and potentially transferred
to Comprehensive Mental
Health or the state hospital.
Providing for inmate's
medical and mental health
needs is a priority for the
jail. "Our goal is to never
have anyone deteriorate
while they're here," Bianchi
says. Counselors from CMH
visit the jail twice a week to
see and assess inmates. The
Most of them are running jail also has a physician's
afoul of the law in pretty assistant on call. All offic-
small ways." Trespassing.,,.ersare trained to distribute
is a common offense. Often. medication, which occurs
from a knee injury.
As Wells and Bianchi
watch the inmates, they talk
about recidivism. During
his time at the jail, Bianchi's
seen a lot of the same faces
show up again and again. At
some point, he says, it's up to
the individual to decide. "I
don't want to be a criminal
anymore." He points out a
few inmates he notices ma-
turing. "You can see it. He's
like. 'Alright, this isn't fun
anymore.'"
At present, Goldendale
doesn't have much of ma.ou}~
reach system to get people
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