Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...howling wind cascaded through the cabin so fast that one woman's earrings were pulled from her ears. Oxygen masks popped free (some people later complained that several oxygen compartments failed to open). "It was a nightmare," said passenger Dalenya Poliszcuk. A shower of ice cubes from the beverage carts and all sorts of personal possessions filled the air. "There were shoes blown back from the front of the plane," reported passenger Andrew Gannon. "A stewardess went flying, and another one tried to calm everybody down...
...from the wintry Atlantic. But Flight 103 left Heathrow 25 minutes late. Anticipating such delays, terrorists have used barometers to start a timer only when a set air pressure has developed near the bomb. Since the cargo holds in a 747 are pressurized after takeoff along with the cabin, the barometer could detect this change and start the timer. If such a technique was used on Flight 103, it failed to postpone the blast until the aircraft was over water only because high-altitude winds caused the crew to take a northerly course over Scotland before heading west...
...Boeing 737 peeled off in midflight last April, sounded again last week. Eastern Flight 251, bound from Rochester to Atlanta, was forced into a terrifying emergency dive, plunging 21,000 ft. in just one minute after a sudden rupture tore a 14-in. hole in the fuselage, depressurizing the cabin. Though the rapid descent caused some of the passengers excruciating ear pain, no one was seriously injured, and the 22-year-old Boeing 727 landed safely in Charleston...
...part of a special investigation earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration inspected every aircraft in Eastern's fleet and deemed the airline safe. But Flight 251's harrowing ride rekindled suspicions that metal fatigue induced by changes in cabin pressure during thousands of takeoffs and landings have decreased the margin of safety in commercial aviation. Although older jetliners have been subject to special inspections since 1983, the FAA responded to the Aloha accident by ordering airlines to replace the rivets on 737s built before 1971. Last week the agency announced that a similar order for aging 727s would...
Here we go again. Exploiting white America's ignorance of historic racial oppression, Hollywood casts a spotlight on the rich but neglected story of the black struggle for equal rights. As has happened with every popular work on the subject, from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Roots, Mississippi Burning evokes a gasp of horrified discovery from many whites who act as if they are learning about the viciousness of slavery and segregation for the very first time. Unfortunately, the film does little to deepen the knowledge of its audience. Though its producers say the movie is fictional, they so artfully...