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...said, suffered a sudden loss in cabin pressure that could have resulted from failures in the air conditioning system. The Venezuelan twin-engine failure could have been either because of fuel contamination or maintenance malfunction (and is the second fatal flight this year by low-cost provider West Caribbean Airlines). While inspections have not yielded clear results for the Indonesian flight, the aging Boeing was nearly 25 years old—and scheduled to keep flying for eleven more years. I suspect that these accidents were not altogether unavoidable given more careful maintenance or a less thrifty schedule of plane...
...Federal Aviation Administration monitors air-safety systems by country and restricts flights to the U.S. from 26 nations that fall short of ICAO standards. Says a government source: "There are already strong incentives to play by international safety rules." One of them is fines. Last year Colombia fined West Caribbean Airways, whose plane crashed in Venezuela last week after both engines failed, for a litany of safety violations...
...into the crashes. American aviation sources say investigators in Cyprus--home to Helios Airways, whose Boeing 737 crashed near Athens--are sharing almost no reliable information with the public. And Venezuela's anti-U.S. stance is keeping investigators for the plane manufacturer from looking into why the West Caribbean McDonnell Douglas MD-82 went down en route from Panama to Martinique. Cuban officials have been asked to join the probe instead, but aviation experts say full information sharing is necessary to ensure global air safety...
...What Columbus landed on were these very, very populous islands [in] the Caribbean, which were just jammed with people-very heavily populated agricultural societies with most of the place covered with farms. Soon after, people came to central Mexico, which was then possibly the most heavily populated place on earth, ruled by this very aggressive, rapidly expanding empire. That's what's normally called the Aztecs. There were all of these other societies. There were these large Mayan states that were basically in the Yucatan...Soon after that, [the explorers] went to Peru, and there was the Inca Empire, which...
...with top courses taking shape in unusual spots, from Africa to the Caribbean, the trend is catching on. Last year courses outside of North America were opening at a rate of more than one a day, on average, ranging in construction cost from Barnbougle's bargain $2 million to luxurious $50 million projects in places like Barbados. "There's a great demand from golfers looking for new and interesting courses around the world," says Bill Hogan, president of Wide World of Golf (WWG), a purveyor of luxury golf trips. "They've done Scotland and Ireland, and now they want something...