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...NEIL YOUNG. Yes, the Neil Young, muttonchopped crooner of protest hymns, who, while recording his new album, asked his manager to roll out Roll, his ode to the hijacked passengers of United Airlines Flight 93. Young was inspired by reading an article about Todd Beamer, 32, who stormed the cockpit--but not before signaling his fellow rebels with his now famous phrase, "Let's roll." The song is "a powerful funk-rock dirge," according to the New York Times. It has been getting much radio play and will be included in Young's new album next spring...
...also organized popular birthday parties for his two children—once taking young guests to sit in the cockpit of a private plane, another time bringing a bulldozer to his neighborhood so the guests could ride along as it was driven up and down the driveway...
...sure, security has improved. Last week the airlines finished installing bars on cockpit doors to keep passengers from assaulting the pilots, as the hijackers did. And President Bush announced last week a 25% increase in National Guard troops, to a total of 9,000, who will be stationed at the country's 420 airports...
...There are two "black boxes" on each plane: A flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder. Is one of them more important in the case of an air disaster...
...They're equally important, just in different ways. The flight data recorder (FDR) tells you what's going on with the plane itself - it records the physical aspect of the flight. The cockpit voice recorder records sounds, including the voices of the crew. You can also sometimes hear plane noises, information that is often quite useful during an investigation...