Word: crews
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...fully 89 minutes in various holding patterns on its scheduled five-hour flight from Medellin, Colombia, to New York. Bad weather had stalled 248 other planes heading for Kennedy that day; in the two hours before the Avianca disaster, 33 pilots chose to land at other airports. The Avianca crew reported it did not have enough fuel to reach its designated alternate, Boston. Apparently because of high winds and low clouds, the plane missed its first landing attempt at Kennedy. It crashed on its second approach when all four engines failed, almost certainly for lack of fuel...
There is no doubt that the Avianca pilot, a 17-year veteran, knew he had a fuel problem, although it is uncertain if he understood its extent. Investigators are focusing on whether the crew adequately conveyed its concerns to regional air controllers and whether these controllers passed the information on to the local controllers. Tapes reveal that the Avianca crew informed the regional center that its fuel was insufficient to reach Boston, but this information apparently was not relayed in the "hand-off" between controllers. Still, the pilot did not object when the plane was then placed on a routine...
Harvard (2-2) defeated Westpoint in its first game, and then lost to the host team, NJIT. Berg and his crew then went on to soundly defeat Cornell, advancing to the quarterfinals where they were stopped by Penn...
...costs of future U.S. missions, and scientific data from exclusively Japanese probes will be available to all. Despite its many achievements, Japan remains significantly behind both the U.S. and the Soviet Union in space technology. Still, given the country's record in other areas, it may be a Japanese crew that first sets foot on Mars early in the coming century...
...football has become a slick, indoor imitation of itself, jazzy old New & Slightly Used Orleans somehow remains the real thing, or nearly. On Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, a minicam crew stalks tourists, trying to find someone wearing a Broncos feed cap. The visitor ducks around the corner into Preservation Hall, a magnificently funky storefront that looks as if it has been flooded and drained a few times, where a $2 donation lets you stand and listen to some grand old Dixielanders wail the stuffing out of St. James Infirmary and Muskrat Ramble...