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American, United, USAir, Delta and Texas Air Corp.'s Eastern and Continental airlines pledged to change schedules in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth and at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. By November flights must be close to on time at least 50% of the time. By April planes must arrive within half an hour of schedule at least 75% of the time. If not, the airlines will face stiff fines...
...several areas outside the capital, including Cebu, the country's second largest metropolitan area. In the Manila suburb of Quezon City, a fierce fire fight raged around the government communications center, home of television Channel 4. Rebels also managed to seize part of Villamor Air Base, adjoining Manila International Airport, trapping General Antonio Sotelo, the air force commander, in his office. A contingent of 300 men talked their way into Manila's Camp Aguinaldo, headquarters of the national defense forces and the general staff. Only late on Friday did progovernment forces succeed in routing the rebels...
...tragedy but also a field of evidence offering myriad clues. Their task, which began last week and may not end for months, was to solve the mystery of Northwest Airlines Flight 255. Why had the plane, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 bound for Phoenix from Detroit's Metropolitan Airport, plunged to earth only seconds after takeoff, killing 154 passengers and crew members on the plane, sparing only four-year- old Cecilia Cichan...
...Sunday, Aug. 16, the radio tower at Metropolitan Airport cleared Flight 255 for departure. Captain John R. Maus, 57, a veteran pilot with 20,000 hours of flight experience, 2,000 of them in MD-80s, taxied the plane onto runway 3-Center North. The plane, loaded with a full 39,128 lbs. of jet fuel and 6,000 lbs. of baggage, hurtled farther than normal down the runway and rose less than 50 feet before plunging. In the cockpit, a computer- generated voice repeated the words "stall . . . stall," indicating that the airflow over the wings was no longer sufficient...
Serious accusations have been made by John King, a twelve-year veteran mechanic at Eastern's Logan Airport maintenance base in Boston, who was fired three weeks ago after he went public with complaints he had made to the FAA. Last week King described three incidents that he said occurred in Boston...