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...cockpit, crew members had other things on their minds. "The five of us were trying everything to steady the plane," said Pilot Ming Yuan Ho, 55. Cruising at around 41,000 feet about 350 miles northwest of San Francisco, the Boeing 747 SP suddenly lost full power in one engine, and the other three began to operate with reduced thrust. The 325-ton bird dropped six miles in two minutes, practically turning upside down as it rolled to the right. The force of the fall ripped off the doors of the landing-gear compartment, and may have sent...
...including two Americans. They freed 146 hostages, but for the dozen or so men who remained on board, tied to their seats, conditions were said to be horrendous. There were reports that the Airbus had been disabled late Friday night by bursts of gunfire that shattered windows in the cockpit and cabin. A freed Pakistani passenger said the hostages had tried unsuccessfully to overpower their captors. The Iranian government news agency claimed that the hijackers would soon "put all the Americans aboard the plane on trial" and had beaten one of the two remaining American hostages. None of the stories...
...were murdered was hard to obtain and often contradictory. On Thursday morning the hijackers allowed an Iranian photographer to approach the door of the plane. While they held a gun to his head, he looked inside the cabin and saw two hostages lying on the floor outside the cockpit. He could not tell whether they were dead or alive...
...were painted on the dial. Now it shudders to life and slowly begin to rise. Then there is an unmistakable whisper of rushing air, at first almost too faint to hear, then louder and louder still A faint red glow appears at the edges of the cockpit windows, then spreads across them and seems to curl up over the fuselage ... As it slows and the air no longer supports its raised nose, the forward landing gear falls with a jarring whump ... A spaceship has landed on earth...
...long ago, Rajiv was asked whether he missed the life of a pilot. "I sometimes get into the cockpit all alone and close the door," he replied. "Even if I cannot fly, at least I can temporarily shut myself off from the outside world." Can such a man long rule a nation so vast and complex? The question was being asked last week by India's friends and enemies alike. Referring to the murder of Mrs. Gandhi, a British Cabinet member said flatly, "It is a great tragedy that could lead to the breakup of the Indian nation...