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...betrayal of the U.S. Two weeks earlier, Washington seemed to promise that it would protect them from Saddam's unbridled use of air power, but now they were under constant fire from the sky. "We complained 10 times to the Americans that the Iraqis were using fixed-wing aircraft against us. We never received a reply," said an aide to Massoud Barzani, the commander in chief of the rebels. "One might think the U.S. and Mr. Bush want to see all the Kurds massacred...
...record to give pilots and passengers pause: seven Piper Malibu Mirage aircraft have broken apart in midair in the past 22 months. The manufacturer, Piper Aircraft of Vero Beach, Fla., insists that the six-seat, single-engine plane is entirely airworthy. The Federal Aviation Administration has suspicions to the contrary and last week issued a directive grounding the 518 remaining Malibus in foul weather and limiting the ways the planes can be flown...
...Florida that killed a family of four when their Malibu fell apart during a rainstorm. The FAA has not determined the cause of the accident and is still investigating the six similar mishaps, but says it has found evidence of "gross" excess strain on the wings of the aircraft that crashed. The manufacturer attributes the accidents to "pilot error and pilot inexperience" in adverse weather at speeds greater than the planes were designed to handle...
...might attack helicopters flying against the rebels and retaliate, presumably by bombing, if Saddam used chemical weapons or napalm against his own people. But by the end of last week those warnings were exposed as a bluff that did not work. Saddam's forces did use all kinds of aircraft to devastating effect in an assault that Baghdad claimed had recaptured the northern oil center of Kirkuk -- and the U.S. made no attempt to stop them...
...sudden public adulation of American technology, long seen as sinking under Japan's rising sun, has even revived the Northrop Corp.'s hopes for its flawed and perhaps missionless B-2 bomber. The California company has launched a furious campaign to get more money for an aircraft that carries an $865 million price tag. The company and the Pentagon claim that the B-2 can destroy Soviet mobile missiles dispersed in millions of square miles of thick forests. Never mind that Saddam Hussein launched Scud missiles for weeks from sites in the open desert while a huge force of allied...