Word: crash
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Still shakily insecure after the crash of '87, food trendies this year looked for safer culinary havens. They snuggled up to take-out food in the barefoot safety of their own living rooms, or sought out comfort foods (pasta and pizza, meat loaf with mashed potatoes and gravy, creamy desserts) in small, moderately priced Italian trattorias and American bistros. Many of them shunned the lavishly styled and priced restaurants, which in general took an almost unprecedented beating. The beef industry fought back even while the promise of immortality via good health made a superstar of cholesterol- reducing oat bran...
...600s ($68 million; 267 passengers). The hottest-selling Airbus jet is the medium-range A320, the first commercial airliner in which the cockpit is connected to flaps and rudders strictly by computer rather than by hydraulic or mechanical means. More than 400 of the planes have been ordered. (The crash of an Air France A320 during a demonstration flight last June was not the result of any flaw in the aircraft, investigators concluded...
...corners might be cut as production speeds up. * British Airways, Japan Air Lines and other Boeing customers have complained about sloppy work on some aircraft produced in the past three years. The company may face criminal charges in Japan because of faulty Boeing repairs that led to the 1985 crash of a Japan Air Lines 747 in which 520 passengers and crew members died...
...their minority report, the dissenters piece together this chain of events: explosions aboard the aircraft ignited an in-flight fire that may have caused system failures and a crash. As evidence, they point to a pathologist's report that found combustion residues in the lungs of more than 70 of the victims, indicating there was a fire in the plane before the final impact killed all the passengers. They cite eyewitness accounts from two truck drivers who saw a yellow glow under the belly of the crippled DC-8 as it plunged to earth. The four also charge that...
...crash was the latest in a series of air mishaps that have brought angry demands from the West German public for an end to low-level training flights. The Cabinet immediately suspended low-flying exercises until the end of the year and asked U.S. and other NATO forces to do the same. U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt, saying he was "shocked and very saddened," announced that the U.S. would comply...