Word: compartmentalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At the start of the eleven-month investigation, crash detectives from the Italian and U.S. governments,TWA, and Lockheed Aircraft, builder of the plane, had precious few clues to go on. "It was a mess," said one of the experts. "All we could tell at first was that the right...
¶ Boring into Miami International Airport in broad daylight en route from New York International Airport to Bogota, Colombia, an Avianca Super Constellation had trouble with its No. 3 engine, went back to the line for repairs. Finally, in the air ten hours behind schedule, the Constellation touched down at...
Sixty miles southeast of Guam, the Navy's bathyscaphe Trieste (TIME, Sept. 1, 1958) settled slowly below the rolling .sea. In the small, thick-shelled crew compartment were Lieut. Donald Walsh and Swiss Scientist Jacques Piccard (son of the bathyscaphe's inventor, Auguste Piccard). At 24,000 ft...