RE: Contamination due to damaged ice detection probe

["Flora, Jason" <jgf7@NIOSHE2.EM.CDC.GOV>]

Message Posted listed below:

Following the planes landing, what prompted the airport officials to 
consider that radioactive contamination of the air strip occurred?

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                         Jason Flora/Westat
                         jgf7@nioshe2.em.cdc.gov
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Non-Licensee                           MR Number: 3-96-0033
Willow Run Airport/Plane Crash         Date: 03/21/96
Ypsilanti,Michigan                     MICHIGAN RADIATION HEALTH (CONT)...
License No: NONE

Subject: CONTAMINATION DUE TO DAMAGED ICE DETECTION PROBE-UPDATE
         .....NOTIFIED NRC ON 03-21-96 BY TELEPHONE.


Discussion:

On March 17, 1996, a Russian-designed Albatross L-39C aircraft landed at
the Willow Run airport with its wheels up due to pilot error. During the
landing, an ice detection device containing a radiation source in an ice
detection probe in the nose of the aircraft was damaged, contaminating
parts of the runway and the aircraft. Based on contacts between NRC
International Programs and the Russian government, the material was
determined to be Strontium-90 and Yttrium-90,
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