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...Soviet Union toppled in December 1991, the air giant splintered into more than 150 smaller, independent carriers while the centralized system of maintenance, safety inspections and quality control vanished into thin air. The effect on safety has been chilling. In Armenia last December, 34 people died when a cargo plane illegally carrying passengers crashed and exploded like a Molotov cocktail. Examiners later determined that the aircraft had been loaded with two poorly secured automobiles stuffed with cans of gasoline, and that many of the passengers were also clutching jugs of gasoline as carry-on luggage. In Irkutsk this January...
...worst offenders are the domestic carriers. For a bribe of about 20,000 rubles on top of the price of the ticket, most attendants and pilots will be only too happy to accommodate latecomers by jamming the aisles and cargo bins with standing room only. On many flights, preflight safety briefings are nonexistent; smoking is permitted before, during and after takeoff; access to emergency exits and even the toilets is blocked by everything from sacks of potatoes to wire cages filled with twittering birds...
...Force F-16D fighter jet collided with a C-130 cargo plane as both were attempting to land at North Carolina's Pope Air Force Base, raining down flaming debris that killed 23 Army paratroopers and injured scores of others. In Edison, New Jersey, an underground natural-gas pipeline exploded in a fierce fireball, carving out a huge crater and destroying eight apartment buildings. Miraculously, only one person died -- indirectly, of a heart attack...
...spacecraft, Endeavour caught up with Hubble on Saturday morning. As shuttle commander Richard Covey steered his spacecraft to within 35 ft. of the telescope, astronaut Claude Nicollier used a robot arm to grab the 43-ft.-long, 25,000-lb. device and lowered it into the shuttle's cargo bay, where some repairs will be done. "Houston, Endeavour has a firm handshake with Mr. Hubble's telescope," Covey told Mission Control. "It's quite a sight." The crew also found that one of the telescope's two 40-ft.- long solar panels was in even worse condition than expected, with...
...Scandinavian immigrant to the United States," wrote historian Wittke, "has been the Viking of the Western prairie country." In the mid-19th century, American newspapers carried accounts of immigrant Swedes disembarking en masse from cargo ships and marching -- often with their country's flag carried aloft -- to railway depots where trains would take them upriver to Buffalo, along the Erie Canal and thence to the prairie country of the upper Mississippi valley. "What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become!" wrote Frederika Bremer in 1853, and she was right. Today about 400 place names in Minnesota are of Scandinavian...