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...toll had reached 153. It was the second worst U.S. air accident, exceeded only by the crash of an American Airlines DC-10 in Chicago three years ago, which killed 274. The search for the cause of the New Orleans disaster centered on the weather. Lightning, wind shear and "downburst," a phenomenon in which a huge column of air suddenly surges toward earth from thunderclouds at high velocity, were the prime suspects. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Sam Allis and B.J. Phillips/New Orleans
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