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...allegations against Evergreen, which has never been implicated in a major crash, may point to a wider problem in aviation maintenance. Just last week the NTSB announced that it would hold a public hearing on the crash last year of an Emery Worldwide Airlines DC-8 cargo plane near Rancho Cordova, Calif., and that the work by a third party has been a focus of that investigation. The NTSB's John Goglia, a trained mechanic and a 35-year aviation-industry veteran, is concerned about some statistics that show an increase in serious accidents with maintenance as the primary cause...
...manufacturer and that it be approved by the agency. Compliance is so rigid that it is measured in millimeters. Work cards document every step in the process and are reviewed first by the airline and then by FAA inspectors. Maintenance errors are suspected in the most recent major U.S. crash, Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which plummeted into the Pacific Ocean in January 2000, killing all 88 aboard...
...critical flight surface.) In another case, also described in the lawsuit, Evergreen was instructed to inspect and lubricate the flap carriage on the wing. (Lubrication is an essential flight-safety issue: failure to lubricate an internal part properly is thought to be the leading cause of the Alaska Airlines crash.) On Dec. 15, Evergreen told AFX that both tasks had been done. Then in January, Abbott discovered not only that the flap carriage had not been lubricated but also that part of the carriage had in fact broken off. If AFX had flown the plane in such a condition...
DIED. LEON WILKESON, 49, bassist and founding member of the seminal Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd; in his sleep; in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Wilkeson survived the 1977 plane crash that killed three members of the group, including fellow founder Ronnie Van Zant. The band, reformulated in 1987, had scheduled a late-August concert...
...version of XP on my home machine. I'd tried it before (see columns passim) only to scramble for the deinstall button when it caused a dozen different conflicts. But this time, after 24 hours of tweaking, it worked. I finally had a stable Windows environment that refused to crash on me. I was just ogling the cool blue taskbar and gorgeous 3D icons the afternoon Microsoft announced - very, very quietly - that there would be no Java support built into XP. When the final version is launched, if you really truly want to use Java you'll have...