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...those kind of altitudes, the gap between excess speed and stalling narrows, especially when you factor in complications like turbulence," says Paul Hayes, director of the London-based Ascend Worldwide fleet consultancy, which advises global airlines and air-transport companies. Without the black box, Hayes adds, the alerts could provide some answers, but not all of them. "Correctly sequencing the cascade of technical reports the plane sent should give investigators clues into what was going wrong as it flew into difficult weather," he says. "At this point, the limited remains of the plane and its passengers recovered will probably...
...from Shanghai to Taipei you still have to fly over the airspace of Hong Kong. The air controllers of Taiwan and the mainland are still unable to talk to each other. We have to change that, and we may be able to change that in the next couple of months so that we can save fuel and time. Then we open up direct navigation between the seaports in China and Taiwan. Next year we hope to negotiate an air-transport agreement with the mainland to convert the weekend charters to everyday charters and then to scheduled flights just like everywhere...
...whole, the air-transport system can be proud of a fine safety record. The scheduled airlines of the Western world have suffered 138 fatal accidents in the past 25 years while flying 135 million aircraft hours--a rate that works out to one accident for the industry for every 978,000 hours in the air. Most planes are well maintained and skillfully operated. Yet there is room for improvement. Says C.O. Miller, president of System Safety, a Virginia consulting firm that has frequently been critical of airline practices: "Overall, I would say that the general quality of aviation...
...Air Force is well prepared with long-range, precision strike capabilities that have already been proved in battle in Kosovo. And if the targets can be identified, then long-range strikes to disrupt terrorist activities may be warranted. But the resistance of a fanatic foe may be overcome only by boots on the ground. We will need enhanced air-transport capabilities and a reorganized and re-equipped ground force...
...helped North supply the contras over the past two years. One possibility is that the funds were used to finance the string of airlifts that have delivered supplies to the rebels during the past few months. Those flights received unwanted publicity two months ago, when a C-123K air-transport plane was shot down over southern Nicaragua and an American crew member, Eugene Hasenfus, was captured and tried by the Sandinistas. But most of the supplies, according to a knowledgeable source, consisted of boots, clothing and small arms...