Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Today I am returning the DC-10 fleet to the air." That laconic announcement last week by Federal Aviation Administrator Langhorne Bond was received joyfully by the eight U.S. airlines that operate 138 wide-bodied DC-10 jets. For 37 days the planes had been grounded while FAA crews combed...
Bond reassuringly maintained that we have worked out strict measures to as sure that such a crash cannot occur again." Federal investigators blame American Airlines' maintenance proce dures for contributing to the disaster which was the worst in U.S. airline history. TIME has learned that the plane's...
First there was the crash in May of the American Airlines DC-10 in Chicago, taking the lives of 275 people in the worst U.S. air disaster. Lloyd's underwriters hold 16.5% of the coverage of that flight, which could cost them many millions. If the plane is found...
Day after day Connally's campaign chairman, Winton ("Red") Blount, the international construction contractor who was Postmaster General under Richard Nixon, adds more chief executives to the list of Big John's supporters. Some of them: General Foods' James Ferguson, Southern Pacific's Benjamin Biaggini, H...
Why don't the airlines of the world stop flying one day a week? If this were done, there would be a jet fuel surplus, and the price of fuel would come down.