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LIKE MOST TRAGEDIES, THE CRASH OF AN EL AL 747-200F cargo jet last week came without warning. Six minutes after taking off from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport bound for Tel Aviv, the pilot reported a fire in a right-wing engine. Seconds later another engine failed and the freighter hurtled into a 10-story apartment building just 10 miles from the airport. As rescue workers uncovered the remains of 51 victims on the ground -- many others were incinerated and will never be found -- investigators searched for an explanation. El Al says an engine fire on the same plane...
...past 10 months, however, two 747 cargo planes, model 200, have gone down in alarmingly similar circumstances. A China Airlines plane lost both its starboard engines shortly after takeoff from Taipei last December. Over Amsterdam last week, the engines on the El Al cargo flight's right wing also dropped...
...unreliable. Before the next millennium is very far along, humans will get their lift from space planes that take off and land like conventional jets but are powered by "scramjets" that, once aloft, will enable them to swoop into orbit or go halfway around the world in two hours. Cargo will be shot into orbit by electromagnetic rail guns that ramp up the sides of mountains, or will be flung upward by looping orbital tethers, sort of like David's slingshot...
Frank (Paul Schulze), a guy whose clean shave and straight Irish face belie his penchant for illegal activities, arrives from Florida with a cache of illegal guns. This volatile cargo draws us into the denouement of the film...
...Somalian hinterland, U.S. cargo planes continued an airlift that has delivered more than 3,000 tons of food to remote villages since Aug. 28. But last week flights to one town, Belet Huen, were suspended after a plane was hit by a bullet...