Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This effort involved many of our correspondents around the world. Madrid Bureau Chief Karsten Prager flew to Tenerife early in the week to begin assembling our detailed account of the tragic crash of the 747s. While he was interviewing the officials involved and the survivors, TIME staffers in London. Amsterdam and our U.S. bureaus talked with pilots, aviation officials and other experts about the entire state of air safety in general...
Much of our reporting came from Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, who has long covered developments in aviation and space for TIME. To this assignment Hannifin brought some particularly apt qualifications; he is not only an associate member of the Society of Air Safety Investigators, which promotes improved crash-probe techniques, but also a pilot of what he describes as the "Lindbergh baby" generation, with nearly 2,500 hours of flying time which he has accumulated over the past 27 years in craft ranging from modern jet interceptors to his own classic Ercoupe and a Cessna 182 that he shares with...
...Pilot Jacob Veldhuizen Van Zanten, 51, a 25-year career flyer so experienced that he spent half his time training other KLM pilots (when a KLM official first heard of the crash he wanted to send a pilot to the investigation: Veldhuizen), rolled toward takeoff without getting tower clearance to do so? Even defensive Dutch authorities agreed that "no takeoff clearance had been given...
...take off. The KLM captain gave his jet engines full power and roared down the runway-just as the Pan Am 747 taxied across his path. The two planes collided broadside. Flames and smoke towered into the sky. Sirens screamed. Ambulances and residents of Tenerife rushed to the crash scene to help. There was little they could do. As the grim count went on, at least 514 were feared dead-by far the worst disaster in aviation history...
...Crash of '79, Erdman...