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...weep and apologized for "causing everyone so much inconvenience." When the last passenger had left the plane, the skyjackers set fire to it. Reports TIME'S Joseph Fitchett, who was on the scene: "Passengers were barely clear before a wisp of black smoke curled out of the cockpit. A tongue of flame followed, then crept back along the top of the fuselage. The plane began to collapse with a series of small reports. Finally, the tail section keeled down, and half an hour after touchdown, three big explosions, like distant summer thunder, sent up a mushroom pall of black...
...care of the rest. In all, 122 of the 134 people aboard died, most of them Brazilians. Among the victims were Filinto Muller, president of the Brazilian Senate and head of the ruling party, and two popular musicians, Agostinho dos Santos and José Iglesias. Only those in the cockpit and the first few rows of seats were spared. Of the twelve survivors, eleven were crew members who were stationed at the front of the plane; unlike the passengers, some of them apparently had protective smoke masks. Six other crew members died...
Dean did not accuse Ziegler of conscious participation in the coverup. In stead, his portrait of the press secretary's hapless entanglement in deception bordered on the farcical. As Dean told it, Ziegler's trusted colleagues and superiors regularly sent him into the cockpit of the White House briefing room armed with bogus information or none at all about Watergate. "Mr. Ziegler, on countless occasions," Dean testified, "asked me to brief him. I on several occasions asked Mr. [John] Ehrlichman if I could brief Ziegler. I was given very specific instructions that I was not to brief Ziegler...
Thomson agreed that Cambodia has been the cockpit of conflict in Southeast Asia. "Cambodia is the Poland of the area," he said...
...Harvard students plan to inspect about four planes a day, six days a week, during the four weeks of the survey. The cockpit and stewardess areas will receive extra scrutiny with the radiation detection devices, because of the higher exposure rates to which aircraft personnel are subject...