Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those worried-and worrisome -comments came last week from a member of a band of experts who normally know all the answers: the National Transportation Safety Board's "go teams" of plane-crash investigators. Over the years they have been able to pinpoint a "probable cause" in 97% of...
After vacillating for twelve days, Federal Aviation Administrator Langhorne Bond last week issued an "emergency order of suspension" that indefinitely lifted the design certificate of the DC-10s in the U.S. The grounding was voluntarily followed by all but one airline outside the U.S. (Venezuela's Viasa, which uses...
The company also lashed out at airlines whose procedures have been "contrary to McDonnell Douglas recommended procedures." Although not named, American Airlines knew that it was one target of the attack. American Vice President Donald J. Lloyd-Jones insisted that two McDonnell Douglas representatives had watched the airline change its...
Even before the last bodies had been found, the detective story began. Federal investigators started poking through the smoldering wreckage of the DC-10 in the flame-seared field near Chicago's O'Hare Airport, collecting pieces of metal that colleagues later examined under electron microscopes. Their findings...
The very contrast between the small parts and the ghastly consequences of their failure in the worst U.S. air disaster would have been troubling enough. But other events stemming from their discovery were also unsettling. The Federal Aviation Administration, the governing body of U.S. flight, quickly ordered inspections of all...