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Evidence is mounting, meanwhile, that pilot disorientation may have been the cause of the fatal crash. Radar data released by the NTSB Tuesday shows that Kennedy turned out of his descent 20 miles from the airport and climbed back to 2,600 feet, leveling off briefly before making a second turn to the right and starting a precipitous plunge that may have exceeded 5,000 feet per minute, 10 times the normal speed. "A pilot not rated to fly by instruments can very easily lose his orientation when the horizon disappears in the darkness and the haze," says TIME aviation...
Finally, the questions in the crash of John Kennedy Jr.'s plane may be closer to answers. On Wednesday morning the Associated Press reported that the wreckage of Kennedy's Piper Saratoga had been located, with Kennedy's body still aboard, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. "They've got the fuselage and John Kennedy's in it," a high-level government source said. Still unknown: the locations of Kennedy's wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren -- and the cause of the crash. One possible clue: CNN reported late Tuesday that mechanics had discovered -? and corrected...
...went wrong, it was more than Kennedy could handle. New radar data released Monday showed that the plane dropped toward the water at 4,700 feet a minute ? 10 times faster than the normal rate of descent. Investigators aren?t sure what that says about the cause of the crash, other than that the problem was severe, and the plane was out of control. To TIME aviation correspondent Jerry Hannifin, that final plummet is a sign that the pilot simply took on more than he was qualified for. "Anyone who has flown regularly on the East Coast in summer knows...
...education than most of the panelists she was listening to last week. She displayed an extraordinary command of policy detail, a steely anger on behalf of those getting screwed by the health and education systems, a fine ear for the telling local anecdote (such as the Ithaca car-crash victim denied insurance coverage after she failed to get preapproval for her emergency helicopter evacuation because she was unconscious at the time). But she was the Woman Who Knew Too Much. When a panelist at the education forum in Oneonta talked about an early-elementary remediation program called Reading Recovery, Hillary...
...Basically, the BeOS is an operating system designed for working with media: audio, video and images. It boots quickly, doesn't crash, runs applications rapidly, and is good at handling very large file sizes. In 1998, Intel invested in Be, Inc., to the tune of about $10 million. Why would a company that's traditionally been seen as Microsoft's Siamese twin pour that much money into a Microsoft competitor? To hedge its bets. MORE...