Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theory, a Boeing 737 with roughly one-third of its roof blown off should not be able to fly. As Aloha 243 abruptly lost altitude, passengers began singing hymns and bracing for a crash. "I was quite sure we weren't going to make it," said Becklin, a University of Hawaii astronomer, who told of ducking his head to avoid the debris streaming from the remnants of the fuselage. "The plane was disintegrating so pieces were falling off it, molding was coming down, and the wind was catching it. The hole up front got bigger and bigger, and I knew...
Federal officials have flatly ruled out sabotage as a cause for the hole in the fuselage. Flight 243 offers worrisome parallels to a 1981 crash of a Boeing 737 owned by Far Eastern Air Transport. All 110 people aboard that jet perished when the fuselage floor as well as roof peeled back at roughly the same altitude as that of Flight 243. Former top federal safety investigator C.O. ("Chuck") Miller, who studied the 1981 crash, points out that both vintage Boeing 737s were built in the late 1960s, endured tens of thousands of pressurization cycles, and operated in the highly...
After last October's stock-market crash, consumers grew more cautious for a while, but now they are emptying their pocketbooks and stretching the limits of their credit cards once again. Though the real gross national product increased at a moderate 2.3% annual rate in the first quarter, consumer spending rose at a more robust 3.8% pace...
Wright began teaching the navigation course in 1942 with Bart Bok, a specialist in Milky Way structure who iscurrently president of the American AstronomicalSociety. During World War II. Wright and Bok wereenlisted to teach crash courses at Harvard to U.S.Army personnel. "A class started on Monday andfinished three weeks later on Saturday. One ofthem told me later that he used everything wetaught him," Wright said...
...Trade and Economic Council, a group of 315 U.S. companies and 150 Soviet enterprises and ministries, which staged a four-day conference in Moscow in April to talk about prospective joint ventures. In a display of Madison Avenue glitz, council members from the U.S. gave their Soviet counterparts a crash course in marketing that included razzle-dazzle TV commercials for Diet Coke, NutraSweet and the American Express Card. Gorbachev invited the U.S. visitors to the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses for a seven-course feast of caviar, pheasant, grouse and other delicacies. After exchanging toasts with the capitalists, the Soviet...