Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by the cruiser U.S.S. Vincennes last July, a Pentagon investigation concluded that combat stress caused the ship's crew to mistake the civilian jetliner, carrying 290 passengers, for an Iranian fighter jet. Last week a panel of experts convened by the International Civil Aviation Organization reached a different verdict: the tragedy could have been averted if the American warship had been better prepared to communicate with commercial aircraft over the Persian Gulf...
...ICAO report stated that the Vincennes had no radio equipment capable of monitoring the channels used by civilian aircraft talking to the control tower at nearby Bandar Abbas. If it had, its crew could have heard Flight 655 get course and altitude instructions placing it near the ship. When the Vincennes became alarmed, it and the U.S.S. Sides sent seven vaguely worded warnings on an emergency military frequency that the airliner could not receive. They also sent four challenges on a civilian distress channel, but they were not specifically directed at any particular aircraft. Finally, the Sides sent a twelfth...
...said he personally was leaning towards candidate Gordon A. Bruno, superintendent of schools in Ithaca, N.Y., and was still considering Rudolph F. Crew, deputy superintendent of the Sacramento, Calif. school district. Fantini said Crew was the only minority finalist...
...Crew could not be reached for comment...
Though one didn't exactly feel like a blithe spirit sitting through the entire three hours of the play, the time factor happily had no effect on the quality factor of this production. And in fact, the cast and crew are to be commended for putting together what could potentially have been one of the biggest snoozers of the season...