Word: airing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clock counting down the time to the year 2000. Does anyone know what will happen when it reaches zero? NBC is promoting Y2K The Movie as part of its November sweeps week. And the only bug more famous than Jiminy Cricket is on the minds of every computer scientist, air traffic controller and politician...
...says he feels uniquely qualified to run such an ambitious mission. He has taught, he has administrated, he has been in academia and he has flown in the Air Force...
...York, producers set to work trying to confirm the story in time for World News Tonight at 6:30 p.m. The story did not air, although Loss and Kim were scheduled to appear on this morning's "Good Morning America" to discuss their interview...
...five fellow travelers. The miracle is that the only victims in Monday?s tragedy were the six people aboard the Learjet that was carrying Stewart to a Texas tournament. "Once its crew were incapacitated, that plane was like an artillery shell crossing at least a dozen busy air routes at 400 or 500 miles an hour from Florida to the Dakotas," says TIME aviation correspondent Jerry Hannifin. "It was an extremely dangerous situation that could have caused a terrible accident if it hadn?t been so well managed by air traffic control." National Transportation Safety Board officials began on Monday...
...plane carrying U.S. Open champion Stewart to Dallas took off from Orlando at 9.19 a.m. but stopped responding to air traffic controllers after 9.45 a.m. That prompted them to call the Air Force, which routinely tracks out-of-control aircraft. Although such planes can be shot down if they present a threat to public safety, that option was never considered in the case of Stewart's plane. Though the Learjet is equipped with masks and other depressurization emergency equipment similar to that of an airliner, some experts believe that insidious - rather than sudden - depressurization can confuse and disorient a pilot...