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...thick of the holiday travel season, American Eagle today grounded flights serving Chicago and five other Midwestern cities until Jan. 4. The commuter airline, beleaguered after two fatal crashes in six weeks and facing federal orders raising safety standards for all commuter aircraft, cited pilots' desire for more training in icing conditions. After grounding its entire Chicago-based ATR turboprop fleet Dec. 9 -- the models grounded in icy weather -- American Eagle had recently resumed the service with different planes. (An ATR model was involved in the Oct. 31 crash that killed 68 people in Indiana...
Federal investigators said today that Wednesday's American Eagle crash near Raleigh, N.C., came after one of the twin engines flamed out and stopped. According to the flight data recorder, the plane veered to the left as the pilots apparently struggled to regain control, then dropped suddenly seconds before impact. Fifteen of 20 aboard died in the crash...
...wake of last night's American Eagle crash in North Carolina -- the second commuter airline crash this fall -- Transportation Secretary Federico Pena today declared that such small aircraft have 100 days to meet the same safety standards imposed on larger planes. "We are very troubled by the number of accidents we've had this year," Pena said after visiting the crash site near Raleigh-Durham International Airport. The rule changes -- which follow last month's warning by the International Airline Passengers Association urging fliers to avoid all flights on planes with under 31 seats -- tighten safety inspections, reduce the number...
...would face a new threat: a missile attack far harsher than the limited Scud barrage Iraq launched at Tel Aviv during the Gulf War. Syria already possesses the most advanced strategic-weapons capability in the Arab world, and its chemical, biological and ballistic missile programs are proceeding on a crash basis even as Damascus talks peace. A battle utilizing weapons of mass destruction would invariably provoke a punishing Israeli counterstrike, possibly with nuclear weapons, but Israel would suffer as never before. For that reason alone, peace with Syria is clearly in Israel's interest. If the cost involves stationing...
December 12: Students crash a Faculty meeting at Paine Hall scheduled to Consider Harvard's curricular ties to ROTC...