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...PAYLOAD: Passenger ? 250 lbs. Cargo...
...McDonnell Douglas DC-9 plunges into the Florida Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami. All 110 on board perish. The fire, investigators learn, stemmed from improperly stored oxygen containers in cargo holds...
REMEDY Airlines since have installed smoke detectors and fire extinguishers in cargo holds. Any airline that contracts out for maintenance, as ValuJet did, now gets heightened oversight...
...than doubled last week to almost 100 men. Target guides on the ground allowed the U.S. to pulverize Taliban troops in the north with a pair of BLU-82 "daisy cutters"?15,000-lb., minivan-size killing machines carried one at a time in the belly of MC-130 cargo planes. When detonated three feet above the ground, the bomb's slurry of ammonium nitrate and aluminum dust wipes out everything within a half-mile radius. Those who are not killed often suffer ruptured lungs or broken eardrums...
...than doubled last week to almost 100 men. Target guides on the ground allowed the U.S. to pulverize Taliban troops in the north with a pair of BLU-82 "daisy cutters"--15,000-lb., minivan-size killing machines carried one at a time in the belly of MC-130 cargo planes. When detonated three feet above the ground, the bomb's slurry of ammonium nitrate and aluminum dust wipes out everything within a half-mile radius. Those who are not killed often suffer ruptured lungs or broken eardrums...