Word: aps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entrust myself to God") before turning off the auto-pilot, putting the plane into a headlong dive and turning off the engine when the captain tried to climb out of the death plunge. A chilling detail was added by a law enforcement source who told the AP that the man prefaced the religious phrase by saying "I made my decision...
Sources: The New York Times; Wall Street Journal; WHDH Boston; the New Yorker; International Red Cross & Red Crescent; Business Week; AP...
...conjecture - to the cockpit, and the factors that might have prompted the crew to turn off the engines. But the "black box" tape of the pilot and copilot's last conversation proved disappointing: "Something happens. Alarms go off. Both work to try to fix it," a source told the AP. "There is some kind of problem that they're dealing with. It gets progressively worse. And the tape stops." Most important, they don't say what the problem...
...seconds Estimated attention span of a goldfish Sources: The Washington Post, AP, Roper Starch Worldwide, American Pet Products Manufacturers Association
Sources: USA Today, Congressional Quarterly, AP, Reuters, Fleiss interview in Playboy, PEOPLE, AP...