Word: cockpits
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...crucial clues are likely to be gleaned from the 747's so-called black boxes (now actually colored bright orange): one that records the cockpit's communications with ground control and another that monitors the plane's vital functions. Given the sudden end of the flight, the second box may provide more useful data. Experts, however, may be able to detect the "signature sounds" of a bomb explosion on the cockpit voice recorder. Last week the sturdily armored recorders were still beneath the sea, but there were indications on Saturday that the steady beeps given off by the black boxes...
...said that the investigation into the crash is closing in on an explanation for the crash: "There is evidence down there that is going to tell us what happened to this aircraft." Analysis of the voice recorder shows that two minutes before TWA flight 800 exploded and crashed, the cockpit crew was casually discussing an erratic fuel flow gauge on the number four engine. Other than that, Francis said, the 747 was operating without any "anomalies." Experts are still analyzing the unidentified noise which abruptly ends the recording. While divers located two of the plane's engines on the ocean...
...know its contents say it paints a frightening picture of lapses in safety procedures, inadequate training and antiquated equipment. The pilot and co-pilot who tried to fly Brown and 34 other VIPs into Dubrovnik, Croatia, on a stormy day had never landed there and were using primitive cockpit navigation equipment of a type that commercial airlines had long since replaced...
...what National Transportation Safety Board investigator Greg Feith has called "a terminology problem"--and possibly a fatal one: the canisters may not all have been empty; they may have merely exceeded their shelf life. Though no generators have yet been found, pieces of the salvaged wreckage, including a singed cockpit life preserver and two sooty steps from near the cockpit, indicate there was a fire on board the plane. And minutes before the crash, pilot Candalyn Kubeck told the Miami tower the cockpit was filling with smoke. Company president Lewis Jordan, a former head of Continental Airlines, has cautioned against...
Flight 592, on one of ValuJet's 51 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 aircraft, had taken off from Miami International bound for Atlanta when its crew reported smoke in the cockpit and turned the aircraft around for an emergency return to the airport. At about 2:25 p.m. Miami air-traffic control reported the jet had disappeared from its radar...