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...human cargo into the waters off the Massachusetts coast. The wild ride lasted less than two minutes and left behind a slew of puzzling questions. Was the crew alive during those final moments? Did the pilots manage to briefly pull the plane out of its dive, or was the aircraft reflexively entering a climb as the near-supersonic dive increased the lift of its wings? And why were the pilots unable to send out a distress signal...
...media coverage immediately after the Halloween night crash. The big question, of course, is what prompted the pilot, eight seconds after the autopilot disconnected, to begin what appears to have been an emergency descent that later turned into a hellish plunge at a speed greater than that which the aircraft was designed for. The flight data recovered indicates only that until then it had been an "uneventful" flight, according to NTSB chairman Jim Hall. More than anything else, the data from the first black box only emphasizes the need to recover the second one - the voice-data recorder - from...
...ground insurgency is that the in-the-air war is expensive and, top commanders will sometimes admit, ineffective. Almost every day at Incirlik is Groundhog Day, as in Bill Murray's 1993 film. "You wake up, you come in, you get ready to launch the aircraft, you launch the aircraft, they come back, you recover them, you go home," says Staff Sergeant George Palo, who maintains aircraft fuel systems. "We don't have a lot of calendars around here, because the only day that counts is the day you get to go home...
...Lear, close enough to signal the pilots. Though the passenger jet's exterior appeared intact, its cockpit windows were obscured by what looked to be a "light coat of frost." Over the next two hours, four other F-16s shadowed the plane. By then, the roving aircraft had made the news. Stewart's Australian-born wife Tracey heard it on a TV news report and tried in vain to call her husband on his cell phone. At about 1:24 p.m., the plane fell to earth at 600 m.p.h. and disappeared from radar...
...teenage boy fleeing the Chinese Red Army, I experienced an air raid by U.S. forces on Jan. 4, 1951, about three miles south of Seoul. At first a few fighter aircraft circled above our heads. The flyers must have seen that we were refugees, mostly women, children and the elderly. In the next instant dozens around me were burning to death as fire bombs fell indiscriminately. This scene is not one that will ever fade for me, even after almost 50 years. At the time I thought that such horrific acts were perhaps inevitable during the course...