Word: crew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the disaster one engineer, Roger Boisjoly, has quit Morton Thiokol and brought lawsuits for more than $3 billion against the company in connection with the deaths of the seven shuttle crew members. However, Arnold Thompson, another who had argued for a delay, has stayed on "to get things flying again." Thompson's decision to hang in, hoping and working for better decisions in the future, reflects the tendency of most of corporate America. "Managers are paid to manage, and it's up to them to make the final decisions," says Thompson, implicitly accepting the dominance of the organization over...
...secretary said the Stark carried a crew of 222. The Pentagon said the death toll had reached 37, and Weinberger said the 185 others "are fine." But he did not elaborate...
...Navy said the ship's crew, with assistance from other U.S. warships, had finally managed to douse all the fires that were touched off when at least one Exocet missile slammed through the frigate's hull in the attack Sunday night...
...Harold J. Bernsen, speaking to reporters in Bahrain, said the Stark had about a minute's warning that an Iraqi warplane had turned on its weapons radar and had locked in on the frigate. But based on preliminary reports, the admiral said, there was "no indication" to the crew that a missile had actually been launched...
...Polish airlines Flight 5055 carried a capacity load of 172 passengers and eleven crew members as it lifted off from Warsaw's Okecie Airport last Saturday en route to New York City. About half an hour into the flight, two of the Soviet-built Ilyushin 62M jetliner's four engines apparently burst into flame. In a frantic effort to reach safety, the pilot turned about, dumped most of the plane's fuel and headed back to Okecie. Before he could make it, the other two engines caught fire...