US SARAJEVO EVACUATION PLAN

FRANKFURT, Feb 6 (Hina) - According to the plans of the announced American evacuation of wounded from Sarajevo, victims to whom the toll of yesterday's massacre of 66 killed and 197 wounded are added, Sunday morning the United States European Command "plans to send a C-130 aircraft with a medical assessment team to Sarajevo to start the assistance effort", it was reported from the US Air Base Rhein-Main near Frankfurt. "The assessment team includes eight medical specialists who will determine the number of wounded who require evacuation and the types of injuries requiring treatment. Also on the team is an officer who will coordinate the US effort with UN authorities in Sarajevo", said the Command's news release. "Once the assessment has been made, the European Command will send medical evacuation aircraft to Sarajevo. We will not know when the first evacuation flights will arrive until the assessment has been made, but the aircraft are on an alert status at the Rhein- Main Air Base in Germany", added the release. The source also said that it was still unknown where the Sarajevo wounded would be taken. Besides the US Army field hospital in Zagreb, mentioned also are the US medical facilities at several bases in Germany among which the largest is at Landstuhl, near Kaiserlautern. "The US European Command has a variety of aircraft available for medical evacuation purposes. These aircraft are: C-130s, C-141s and C-9s. It is unknown at this time which aircraft or how many will be utilized in this humanitarian effort", stated among others the release. 061055 MET feb 94