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June 8: Seven men and three women (one of whom had a small child) took over a Czechoslovak airliner going to Prague. The pilot was accidentally killed in a cockpit melee when he refused to change course. All were arrested in West Germany; Czechoslovakia is seeking extradition...
...equipment will be added not on the ground but in the plane. Built around small onboard computers and other complex electronic gear, it will give the pilot instant access to information that until now has been relayed from the ground or has required time-consuming computations in the cockpit. R-Nav will provide continuous bearings pointing toward any predetermined destination; it will supply the plane's exact position throughout the trip and immediate corrections whenever the plane veers off course. If the pilot should make a mistake in punching out his route on the keyboard...
With all its advantages, area navigation has clearly earned its place in the airliner's cockpit. It has strong support from FAA Administrator John Schaffer, who has set aside 16 high-altitude corridors for R-Nav flights, despite the opposition of some FAA controllers who feel that it would rob them of authority and perhaps eventually their jobs. Commercial pilots, almost to a man, are fully convinced that R-Nav has the potential of making air travel faster, safer and more dependable than ever before...
Other winged beauties include an Eric Broadley-designed Lola, which has its engine-cooling air vents mounted like hollow eyes in front of the driver's cockpit; the Maurice Phillippe-designed Parnelli, which had two of its multiple wings clipped after some experimentation; and the McLaren, which got almost everybody wing-conscious when it appeared last year with a striking rear-mounted foil...
Sabena Flight 517 from Brussels to Tel Aviv was 20 minutes out of Vienna last week when two Arabs waving pistols rushed the cockpit. "As you can see," Captain Reginald Levy calmly informed his 90 passengers, "we have friends aboard." The friends-the men and two women, who produced explosives from under their skirts-were members of a Palestinian guerrilla organization called Black September.* Their audacious plan: to land the Boeing 707 at Tel Aviv and embarrass Israel by threatening to blow up the plane on a Lod Airport runway unless 317 imprisoned fedayeen were released...