Word: compartmentalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The fact that the remains of all seven crew members had been recovered from Challenger's heavily damaged crew compartment on the ocean floor was a tribute to the largest underwater search operation in history. Costing some $20 million, the search also retrieved enough of the shuttle's parts to...
Over the Mediterranean, TWA flies daily between Rome, Athens and Cairo. The 727 on which the bombing occurred last Wednesday had started the day in Cairo, stopped at Athens and proceeded to Rome. There it picked up its passengers, most of whom had arrived on a connecting TWA 747 flight...
The dangers of space flight may soon be impressed on the nation once more. Military pathologists have identified the remains of all seven astronauts recovered from the Challenger's crew compartment. Burial and memorial services are being planned, with Arlington National Cemetery as one of the likely sites.
The Northwest has also become a smuggler's cove. In January the Coast Guard tracked the 195-ft. Honduran freighter Eagle One as it tried to sneak up the California coast toward Seattle. Just outside Puget Sound, drug agents boarded the ship and took it into dock, where they seized...
Indian and Canadian authorities probing last June's crash of Air India Flight 182 into the North Atlantic off the coast of Ireland have proceeded with glacial deliberation. India has never officially confirmed what many have suspected all along: that the third-worst aviation accident in history, which took the...