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Close readers of Notebook will recall that last year a mistaken "crash command" sent a $45 million GLOBAL HAWK pilotless aircraft crashing into the desert. Last week the Air Force detailed another Global Hawk spy-drone embarrassment. This one happened on the ground...
...Force inquiry into the mishap obviously couldn't cite pilot error. But humans were to blame. The bevy of experts tending to the aircraft missed the programming snafu because, according to the accident report, "each thought another part of the process was checking for this type of error...
After the aircraft landed safely at California's Edwards Air Force Base last December, its onboard computer was to instruct the plane to taxi along the runway at about 15 m.p.h. Instead, the computer commanded the jet-powered drone to taxi at 180 m.p.h. The aircraft zoomed--to about 90 m.p.h.--before it careered off the runway, smashed its landing gear and collapsed into a sandy hill, causing $5.3 million in damage...
...that the U.S. had a moral and humanitarian obligation to airlift out as many South Vietnamese as possible and bring them to America. At Ford's behest, Kissinger cabled Martin on April 24. "We are amazed at the small number of Vietnamese being evacuated, considering the substantial amount of aircraft available. I know you feel, as we do, a heavy moral obligation to evacuate as many deserving Vietnamese as possible, and I urge you to redouble your efforts in that regard. The President expects these instructions to be carried out fully and within the time schedule...
...which since 1995 has clawed its way from ninth to second in customer satisfaction surveys, is suing United, which has slumped from third to tenth in the same polls. At issue: those baggage-sizing templates that determine whether a carry-on bag is small enough to fit in the aircraft's overhead bins. In a federal antitrust suit filed on Monday, Continental alleges that United Airlines and the management company of Washington's Dulles International Airport have conspired to place templates reflecting United's carry-on limits at the airport's shared X-ray checkpoints, thus preventing Continental passengers from...