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...spotlight on Eastern intensified in April 1984, when U.S. Customs Service agents seized one of the company's jumbo jets after discovering 3 lbs. of coke under the cockpit. Federal investigators enlisted the help of Eastern Chairman Frank Borman, who gave his mechanics the go-ahead to help agents search planes for illegal stashes. The current probe began last August after Customs agents found two coke shipments totaling 1,722 lbs., or $430 million worth, aboard Eastern flights from Colombia. Investigators discovered that the contraband was generally stuffed into suitcases by baggage handlers in Colombia and then slipped through Customs...
Scobee carried his fascination with flying to his home in suburban Houston, where he lived with his wife June and their two children. He and Astronaut James van Hoften built a two-seat, open-cockpit Starduster plane and flew it cross-country. The craft, made of wood and fabric, had no radio. Reflecting on this convergence of his work and leisure pursuits, Scobee once observed, "You know, it's a real crime to be paid for a job that I have so much fun doing." For all his accomplishments in the skies, however, Scobee was scrupulously modest. "He just wasn...
...extraordinary array of monitoring devices (sensors to detect pressures, temperatures, fuel flow, and so on), which reported their findings thousands of times a second. This flow of information, or telemetry, was so constant and so enormous that a lot of it was not sent either to the shuttle cockpit or to the consoles at Launch and Mission controls. Instead, the data that were nonoperational--that neither controllers nor crew could have done anything about--were simply stored away in computers. Thus while controllers at Cape Canaveral and in Houston apparently noticed nothing abnormal on their consoles until telemetry from Challenger...
...atmosphere. Soon the mission commander and pilot saw the earth's curved horizon before them in the orbiter's front window. The crew, dead serious now in the early moments of the flight, proceeded in efficient monotones through checklists, opening and closing switches, scanning the warning lights on the cockpit panels, coordinating with mission control. Fourteen minutes into the flight, Houston relayed a message of congratulations from the President, written in robust Rose Garden prose...
...cockpit, Captain Peter Terrington, 39, a 19-year veteran of flying, received the all-clear signal from the control tower. As the plane hit 120 m.p.h., about one-third of the way down the 10,000-ft. runway, the left engine exploded. The blast ruptured fuel tanks and lines, spewing jet fuel throughout the rear passenger section of the plane and turning it into an inferno...