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...released from a U.S. jail. The immediate speculation, however, was that a cargo door had simply been whipped off in flight, taking a large portion of the fuselage with it. If that was the case, the incident was one more in a series of mishaps in which commercial aircraft have lost huge sections of their fuselage in midair. Last April a flight attendant was killed and 61 people were injured when a sizable piece of the fuselage of a Boeing 737 peeled off on an Aloha Airlines flight from Hilo, on Hawaii Island, to Honolulu, on Oahu. A subsequent inspection...
Perhaps it is time that some of our leviathan military budget, huge portions of which are channeled into conventional forces in West Germany and $500 million individual aircraft, could be given to the professed war on drugs that rents the fabric of our own society...
...Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, where a giant early- warning radar searches for missiles launched from submarines. But the apparatus is only 1.5 miles from the approach end of a runway, and Air Force electronic engineers fear that its emissions could trigger electromagnetic explosive devices on many military aircraft. Those devices are used mainly to discharge fuel tanks or fire air-to-air weapons. To guard against accidental explosions, the radar is manually shut down for up to 90 seconds whenever a plane approaches the field...
While the Air Force insists that electronic flight-control circuits inside its aircraft are shielded against radar and radio emissions, it closed the radar station completely during a precision-flying exhibition in November by its Thunderbirds aerobatic team. Several Army BlackHawk helicopters have crashed when their pilots flew too close to radio antennas elsewhere and lost control of their choppers. The Air Force has now compiled a list of 300 powerful radio transmitters in the U.S. that its pilots must avoid by a certain distance. The list is secret...
...history of maintenance problems. This aircraft had a routine maintenance history," Nagin told reporters in Chicago...