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...eluded the Taliban until last week, when its network of spies picked up his movements along the mountain trails of Uruzgan. On Thursday, Karzai and his men blasted their way clear of a Taliban ambush--after calling in U.S. helicopters, according to a Taliban spokesman. (The Pentagon said U.S. aircraft were sent to help.) The Taliban also claims it seized an airdrop of 600 AK-47 rifles meant for Karzai. The regime insisted that he had been "under siege" and was airlifted out of Afghanistan on Saturday. But in a call later that day to his family in Quetta, Karzai...
Until Sept. 11, 2001, the most momentous air disaster in recent years had been the fiery crash of the Air France Concorde in the summer of 2000 that killed 113 people. That catastrophe--and the accompanying revelations of the plane's fragility and susceptibility to mishaps--gave the aircraft the ugly title of the most dangerous plane in the sky. The Concorde's French and British developers, however, were determined to bring the plane back and, two months ago, were prepared to do just that. Then came Sept...
...sensitive balance was off, British Air pilots would call the mechanic to the cockpit for severe reprimands. The weight distribution had to be correct; otherwise even the wind could pose a danger. In Paris on July 25, 2000, the wind had shifted to come from behind the aircraft: a basic rule for all pilots is that planes should take off into the wind. The Air France Concorde headed down the runway with an eight-knot tailwind. French investigators say these conditions were not material to the cause of the accident...
...pointing to British Airways' first Concorde to be modified, the Alpha Foxtrot. The airline has given each plane's interior a $2.8 million upgrade. Each seat is now 32 in. from the one in front of it, though that is still cramped compared with first-class seats in other aircraft, which come in at 50 in. or more. It will still cost about $9,000 a flight. That will be enough to keep the riffraff away. But the times are now bad for both the economy and the nerves. Will that combination keep away celebrities and captains of industry...
...help in that effort. The FAA also issued an 11.5-mile no-fly zone for small planes (though it is in effect for only about a week), and F-16 fighter pilots are at the ready. While most reactors were built to withstand the impact of a small aircraft, a 1982 study concluded that a commercial airplane flying at high speed could pierce the concrete dome that protects the reactor core...