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...search for debris, bodies and the telltale "black boxes" proceeded--a ritual so morbidly familiar from the TWA Flight 800 crash two years ago--speculation reached for existing paradigms that would explain the fate of a plane belonging to an airline of sterling reputation. What is known of the cockpit's communications with air-traffic controllers appears to rule out terrorism. But not the terror of mechanical failure. And so the questions were asked. Was it a problem akin to what most probably destroyed TWA 800--a stray spark igniting gases in a fuel tank? Or was it some hazardous...
...from the known facts about the crash of Swissair flight 111, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 that went down Wednesday night with 229 passengers and crew: There were no survivors. Among the dead were 137 Americans. Beyond that, details get sketchy: The pilot reported smoke in the cockpit less than an hour after taking off from JFK; the plane dumped fuel over Novia Scotia and seemed to be preparing for an emergency landing at Halifax airport; it plunged into the ocean shortly after 9:30 p.m. EDT. Swissair quickly ruled out the possibility of a terrorist attack...
...slip into the fog of Alzheimer's disease and his mother suffer a crippling stroke. And Buffett very nearly died two years ago, when the vintage seaplane he was piloting crashed and flipped during takeoff from Nantucket Harbor, leaving him dazed and "hanging like a captured insect" in a cockpit filling with water. After he clawed his way out of the wreckage, he says, "it was time to take a little inventory...
...Prowler may spell trouble for the accused. "The two backseaters are responsible for situational awareness, and if it's been decided that they're not culpable, the question is whether they've agreed to testify," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. Their testimony could reveal what happened in the cockpit immediately before the Prowler struck a ski lift, killing 20 people. Initially, the four airmen stuck to an identical account of the accident, while a Camcorder found inside the plane contained a tape that had been erased. "The fact that the tape had been recorded over suggests there may have...
...none of those appeal, how about a ride in the cockpit of a Concorde flight simulator? British Airways has offered its Executive Club members that experience at auction in exchange for 143,500 miles, says Elizabeth Weisser, director of Executive Club and its various partnerships. Other auction awards have included an African safari, a five-day cooking course with master chefs in Italy and a golf outing in Scotland. "People want experiences that are unique and different," Weisser says...