Rescuers identify all 74 Peru air crash dead
     LIMA - 9 May 1998 22:37 ART, Buenos Aires time - Rescue workers
 have found and identified the remains of all 74 people killed when
 a Peruvian air force Boeing 737 crashed in the Amazon jungle last
 Tuesday, Occidental Petroleum said Saturday.
     All of the remains have been flown out of Occidental's jungle oil
 camp at Andoas near Peru's northern border with Ecuador and handed
 over to the victims' relatives, Occidental said in a news release.
     Only 13 people out of the 87 aboard survived after the jet
 chartered by U.S.-based Occidental crashed attempting to land at
 the oil camp in remote jungle 900 miles north of Lima Tuesday
 night.
     One of the survivors, a flight attendant, said she saw a flash
 of lightning just before the plane crashed, but the air force and
 Occidental have not yet said what they think caused the accident.
     Investigators still have to find the plane's "black box" flight
 recorder, which could contain vital information on the jet's last
 moments, a military source told Reuters.
     The people aboard -- mainly oil workers and subcontractors --
 were all Peruvian except for one American, who was killed, and a
 Venezuelan, who survived.
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          Two-crash flight attendant wants to fly again
     LIMA - 5:20 p.m. ET May 8, 1998 -  A Peruvian flight attendant
 who survived her second air crash almost unhurt has said she will
 fly again when she recovers from her injuries.
     Keila Malpartida was one of only 13 survivors out of 87 people
 aboard a chartered Peruvian air force jet that crashed while trying
 to land in the rain at an Amazon jungle oil camp on Tuesday night.
     "Your life passes before your eyes in a flash but you tell your-
 self 'I can do it' and you ask God for help and walk and walk. Every-
 one was walking with broken bones and bruises because you don't feel
 the pain," she told local television with a shaky voice from her
 hospital bed in Lima late on Thursday.
     Malpartida was sitting at the back of the Boeing 737 plane char-
 tered by U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum as it tried to land at
 Occidental's oil camp at Andoas, in remote jungle 900 miles north of
 Lima on the border with Ecuador.
     She was knocked out in the crash and badly cut in the head but
 another flight attendant revived her and they staggered out of the
 burning wreckage.
     "There were three of us and we walked a long way. We found a
 passenger alive, then we shouted to see if there were more survivors
 and we found another five people," she said.
     Malpartida also survived a crash just one month after starting
 work as a flight attendant in 1994. Then she swam to safety after her
 airliner crashed into a river and broke in two.
     "I want to keep on flying when I get better," Malpartida said.
     Three of the survivors from Tuesday's crash, including a female
 erotic dancer, were in critical condition at Lima's air force
 hospital on Friday.
     Workers at Andoas continued to sort through charred wreckage to
 recover human remains on Friday.
     Fifty seven corpses, of which 39 have been identified, had been
 flown to the jungle city of Iquitos for burial, Occidental said in a
 news release.
     The company and the air force have not yet commented on the
 possible causes of the crash. The recently-acquired Boeing 737 was
 15 years old.
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            Judge gets jet demo in Italian cable car case
     CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina - May 7, 1998 9:22 p.m. EDT -- A
 judge climbed into a jet Thursday to hear testimony in the case
 against two Marine aviators charged with killing 20 people at an
 Italian ski resort.
     Defense lawyers who began presenting their case Thursday request-
 ed the demonstration in an attempt to prove that their clients, who
 sat in the jet's back seat, were not responsible for its flight path
 or speed during the February 3 incident in which the jet cut a cable
 in the Italian Alps and sent a cable car plunging to the ground.
     Prosecutors contend the rear-seat crew is just as culpable as
 the pilot and navigator because part of their jobs included serving
 as lookouts.
     Capt. Chandler Seagraves, 28, and Capt. William Raney II, 26, are
 both charged with 20 counts each of involuntary manslaughter and face
 life in prison if convicted.
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