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...with another person. Crying and shaking, the passenger went around the plane three times with Moutardier looking to see if the other man was on board. At another point, when passengers started smelling smoke again, Jones walked the plane barefoot to see if she could detect heat from the cargo hold. "Most of it was instinct," says Jones, "and the knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks. I don't believe I would have grabbed [Reid] the way I did had I not known about Sept. 11. I don't know that the passengers would have come...
Three National Guard soldiers open LIVE TO DRIVE's trailer and poke about his cargo as a customs inspector, his navy shirt defiantly crisp in the pounding heat, peers at the paperwork and peppers the man with questions. The driver answers stoically, in halting English. Scrap aluminum. Picked it up in Quebec, due at a recycler in Missouri. Heading down I-75, hoping to get there tonight. The inspector appraises the man's story and body language and waves him on for final processing...
Talk about turbulence. First Switzerland's air-traffic-control system was blamed for last month's collision between a Russian passenger jet and a cargo plane that killed 71 people. Now air pockets of labor disputes, technical difficulties and a conflict among pilots have hit Swiss, the country's newly renamed national airline. Still smarting from the bankruptcy last fall of their old flag carrier, Swissair, the Swiss hope the recent glitches do not signal another disaster...
...A380's emergency power unit will be supplied by Hamilton Sundstrand, based in Windsor Locks, Conn. The 44-ft. emergency slides and the 18-ft.-high landing gear will be made by Goodrich, based in Charlotte, N.C. Triumph Group, based in Wayne, Pa., will produce the cargo-door actuation system. A division of Parker Aerospace based in Smithtown, N.Y., is providing fuel measurement and management systems...
Airbus has been successful in the past few years selling its smaller airplanes to U.S. carriers such as JetBlue, Northwest and United. It has even signed a contract to sell FedEx 10 of the cargo versions of the A380, which list for $230 million a copy. And Airbus is determined to maintain that momentum. Last year the company hired a telegenic industry veteran to make its case: Allan McArtor, who has served as a fighter pilot in Vietnam, an airline CEO and the head of the Federal Aviation Administration. McArtor briefs lawmakers and airline execs about the 120,000 employees...