The Cincinnati Enquirer
FLIGHT RECORDERS FOUND
Investigators hope the orange metal flight data recorders found Friday afternoon will unlock the mystery of why Comair Flight 3272 went down.
CRASH
FAMILIES' GRIEVING BEGINS
In cities like Detroit and small towns like McComb, Miss., families began coping with grief.
FAMILIES
LOCAL CREW MOURNED
Until Thursday, the three crew members of Comair Flight 3272 had little more in common than their ties to Northern Kentucky. Now, Dann Carlsen, Kenneth Reece and Darinda Odgen Nilsen are linked forever.
CREW
MINISTER'S 'MIRACLE'
Blessed beyond words. Amazed by the breathtaking ways in which the Lord works. Heartbroken for those who died. The emotions come over Cora Edwards of Brookhaven, Miss., the day after her husband, Eugene, a Baptist minister was to have been on Comair Flight 3272 - but wasn't.
MINISTER
COLD COMPLICATES INVESTIGATION
Pushed by sub-zero winds, drifting snow swept over airplane wreckage and the remains of the dead Friday, blanketing the tragedy of Flight 3272 in white oblivion. ''The weather is certainly complicating the situation," said Monroe County Sheriff Tillman Crutchfield.
SCENE
DETERMINING WHAT HAPPENED
Thomas Watson says airplane crash investigations - at least in their early stages - are not about learning what brought a plane down. ''They are a process of proving what didn't happen,'' said the retired National Transportation Safety Board investigator.
INVESTIGATION
TRAVELERS ANXIOUS, PHILOSOPHICAL
Fear and apprehension sat alongside some travelers at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport Friday, the day after 29 people died in a Comair plane crash.
TRAVELERS
HELPING CHILDREN TO FACE FEARS
Children react differently to news of disasters, say child-psychology experts. Parents can play important roles by answering children's questions and validating their feelings.
COPING
COMAIR INVESTORS CALM
Investors, for the most part, stood behind Comair on Friday.
Stock fell hard early, dropping as much as $4.75, or 19 percent, to $20.25. But it recovered to $23.50 by day's end, down $1.50 from Thursday.
INVESTORS
FIRST-DAY COVERAGE Jan. 10, 1997
