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...three wars, and his mother Joan released a statement on Saturday saying they have both been "active" Jehovah's Witnesses for more than 20 years. Air Force officials say it is more likely that the plane or its pilot was disabled in some way--by a bird hitting the cockpit canopy, for instance, or by a malfunction in the oxygen supply, which might have caused Button to go in and out of consciousness...
DIED. GINO SANTI, 81, U.S. Air Force engineer who developed the pilot ejection system; in Dayton, Ohio. To replace the clumsy climb out of the cockpit, Santi devised a controlled explosion to propel a pilot safely away from a crippled plane...
...civilians squinted into the sunny sky, an F-16 Falcon soared high up, then roared down in a kamikaze dive. A B-2 Stealth bomber flew over the Santiago fairground. A giant C-17 air cargo plane rumbled along the taxiway with a Chilean flag fluttering from a cockpit window. The State Department was furious with the stunts, but the air show accomplished exactly what the Pentagon had wanted. Within six months, Chile and Brazil had sent formal requests to Washington for information on buying F-16s and F/A-18s...
...then pure terror," Bush said last week. "The cockpit was filled with smoke. I could see the flames a few inches from the gas tanks. I stuck my head out, and the wind sucked me out of the cockpit. I must have pulled the rip cord then--too early. My head grazed the elevator at the tail. The chute had several panels ripped out as it momentarily hung up. I was so lucky. An inch or two difference, and I would have been killed by the blow or dragged down with the plane...
...double mileage points to lure back alienated customers. The strike is suspended, but not over. President Clinton ordered a 60 day "cooling-off" period at 12:04 EST, invoking the 1926 National Railway Labor Act, which governs relations for the airline industry. While American pilots are back in the cockpit, a three-member emergency board named by Clinton will take a month to propose a settlement. If the union and the airline's parent company AMR fail to reach an agreement on the proposal within another month, Congress may impose one. "This dispute needs to be resolved as soon...