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...crew was unaware of the events associated with the tragedy." Said one NASA technician: "The tape ends just like the lights going out." But NASA would not reveal the contents of the taped conversations and said that reporters would have to file freedom-of-information requests to acquire transcripts. (Cockpit conversations in airliner accidents, by contrast, are routinely included in federal investigation reports.) The Smith suit faces two obstacles: survivors of military personnel are barred from suing the Government, and the law creating NASA limits damages...
...story offered by the other two crew members of the China Airlines jet on their return to Taiwan strengthened those suspicions. Copilot Tung Kuang- hsing said that Wang had choked him with a steel chain and handcuffed him in the cockpit. Flight Engineer Chiu Ming-chih said that at one point the plane swerved out of control as he knelt before Wang, begging him to change his mind. The captain, however, reportedly threatened his crewmates with an ax and muttered, "I'm sorry. I've been planning this for a long time...
Answering questions like those--usually by strapping themselves into the cockpit and mashing the accelerator--is what the sport is all about for drag racers. Garlits, 54, is still miffed about a trick transmission he built that blew off half his right foot on just such a run in 1970. But it doesn't discourage him when misguided people tell him some new idea is crazy...
...cockpit, Peterson immediately turned his plane 20 degrees to the left and started a direct descent toward the Athens airport. He told the tower, "I have a problem with one of the windows. I think it is going to break, and I request immediate priority for landing." Then he tried to calm the passengers. "Please don't panic. Our engines are O.K. We'll be landing in about ten minutes if nothing else goes wrong...
Between earning these degrees, Thomas' interest in airplanes grew. She married a MIT graduate student in aeronautics who worked at United Aircraft. The newlyweds satisfied their passion for flight by sporting goggles and zooming around in open cockpit airplanes...