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...gentleman who maintains the brochure racks in my office, and my caterer and contract furniture supplier. Not a housewife among them. Minivans are practical vehicles that can haul other things besides runny-nosed kids, flea-bitten dogs and henpecked husbands. Sport-utes can't match them for practicality and cargo or passenger space, the price is right and, frankly, a minivan will never be mistaken for the extension of macho man that a Hummer or Range Rover surely is. PAULA WESSON Stowe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 25, 1997 | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...last year. According to the report, SabreTech helped cause the accident by failing to properly package and identify the hazardous oxygen generators. ValuJet was slammed for improperly overseeing the maintenance contractor while the FAA was charged with not requiring smoke detection and fire extinguishing equipment in the plane's cargo hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verdict Is In on ValuJet Crash | 8/19/1997 | See Source »

MOSCOW: Mir is adrift once more after a failure of the space station's main computer. The systems shut-down occurred while a cargo ship was docking. Now the troubled space station's solar panels are no longer pointed at the sun, leaving its rickety body wobbling and unoriented and its crew in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bugs in Space | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

MIAMI: TIME aviation expert Jerry Hannifin says eyewitness accounts support the theory that engine failure caused the deadly crash of a Fine Air cargo jet yesterday. After hearing witness reports of the plane "wobbling" upon takeoff from Miami International, Hannifin believes the tragedy that killed the DC-8's four-man crew and injured four others on the ground was likely the result of a stalled compressor in one of the plane's engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engine Failure Likely Downed Cargo Plane | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

...dismissed speculation the crash had anything to do with the fact that the "ancient" plane (they stopped making the DC-8 15 years ago) full of blue jeans bound for the Dominican Republic had been scheduled to take off the previous night. Hannifin pointed out cargo operations such as Fine Air customarily operate "on demand," not sticking to any working schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engine Failure Likely Downed Cargo Plane | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

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