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Investigators probing the Monday night crash of American Eagle flight 4184 in northwest Indiana are going down the list of possible causes -- but the most obvious clues don't seem to stand up to scrutiny. Initially, rainy, windy weather along an approach to Chicago was thought to be a possibility, but National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Jim Hall said today that while conditions were far from ideal, "airplanes operate every day in this type of weather." Another possible cause, mechanical failure, is also questionable. The European-manufactured plane was almost brand new. It was registered with federal officials in March...
...buffeted brutally. For more than a decade the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates accidents, has exhorted the Federal Aviation Administration to be more aggressive in studying, monitoring and regulating the way following aircraft navigate wake vortex. Now, even if such turbulence fails to account for Flight 427's crash, the Safety Board has trained sufficient attention on wake vortex to prod the FAA into action...
...Since 1967, the board has succeeded in finding a probable cause for all but three air disasters. On average, such investigations take a year. The rush in this instance owes much to the magnitude of the human toll, the largest in the U.S. since 1987, when a Northwest Airlines crash claimed 156 lives. The tragedy also involved a Boeing 737, the most common of all passenger jetliners. Moreover, there is an eerie resemblance between the September catastrophe and the March 1991 crash of United Airlines Flight 585 near Colorado Springs, Colorado. In both instances the 737s banked abruptly, rolled belly...
This concluding vignette ends his vacation-like jaunt with a crash against the brick wall of mortality. But that still can't shake Moretti's take-it-as- it-comes philosophy. For this engaging artist, in life as on a scooter, the journey is the adventure...
President Boris Yeltsin, calling the currency crash "a threat to our national security," fired acting Finance Minister Sergei Dubinin, a critic of easing monetary policy, and asked parliament to dismiss central bank chairman Victor Gerashenko -- who resigned, but only after a personal meeting with Yeltsin. Considered by many an obstacle to reform, Gerashenko had balked at spending scarce hard-currency reserves to prop up the ruble as it went into free fall...