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...cabin had lost pressure: the white mist was caused by the rush of the cold outside air into the passenger area. The vent to which Ochiai referred was a modification made in wide-bodies after a Turkish Airlines DC-10 lost its cargo door near Paris in 1974 and the difference in pressure between the lower cargo hold and the passenger cabin buckled the floor; this disrupted flight controls and spun the DC-10 into the earth, with the loss of all 346 aboard. The vent was designed to equalize pressure in any similar occurrence...
...apart. Stripped and blackened trees were still smoldering, and small fires could be seen amid surprisingly tiny pieces of debris. There was no sign of life. No bodies were visible. But this was deceptive. The plane had broken apart, and major parts of it, as well as its human cargo, had been flung into the ravines and gullies on either side of the narrow ridge. The air was filled with a vile stench from the burning plane, in grim contrast to the cool, clear, bracing air of the cloud-shrouded mountaintop...
...Central Command, formerly called the Rapid Deployment Force, should a crisis develop in the region. Washington has spent $256 million to lengthen runways, harden concrete aircraft hangars and install storage tanks capable of holding 1.1 million gal. of jet fuel at the bases. American C-141 and C-5A cargo planes routinely land at the Masirah Island base, off Oman's southeastern coast, dropping off supplies to be forwarded by helicopter to U.S. naval task-force ships in the Indian Ocean...
...Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior in Auckland's harbor last July, relations between Paris and Wellington seemed to hit rock bottom. They were exacerbated even further last week when New Zealand customs officials announced that "enough ammunition to start a small war" had been found on the French-owned cargo vessellie de Lumière when it docked in Auckland. Aboard were some 5,300 high-caliber pistol rounds, automatic weapons parts and two military walkie-talkies...
...President Taylor, a U.S. merchant vessel with a small cargo of cotton, was cruising in the Gulf of Oman 26 miles out of the United Arab Emirates port of Fujaira when it happened. An Iranian frigate warned the Taylor to prepare to be boarded. The U.S. captain reluctantly consented. For 45 minutes an Iranian officer and six seamen, three equipped with submachine guns, searched for matériel that might be destined for Iraq, Iran's enemy in the five-year-old gulf war. Finding none, they departed...