
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, September 14, 1995                   TAG: 9509140082
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: SHACKLEFORDS                                LENGTH: Short

CLEANUP BEGINS AT SITE OF CRASH; PARTS PROBED

Cleanup operations began Wednesday at the site where a plane crashed, killing all 11 on board and a man who was sitting on his back porch.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators have recovered the pieces of the wreckage needed to complete a report on Sunday's crash, said Mike Benson, an NTSB spokesman.

The recovered parts included both engines of the Beechcraft Queen Air BE-65 that was leased by the Peninsula Skydivers club and a helmet-mounted video camera worn by one of the skydiver victims.

Authorities believe one of the engines on the plane quit a few minutes after takeoff from West Point Airport.

The recording in the camera, discovered Tuesday in the debris, provided sound that backed up accounts by witnesses who said the plane appeared to have an engine problem. It crashed minutes later into a house about 1 1/2 miles east of the airport.

Benson said the plane's engines would be dismantled and closely inspected, and the recording would be taken to a laboratory to enhance the sound.

by CNB