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Even if this particular tragedy can be characterized as human error, however, the crash has laid bare ValuJet's uneven safety record. Since its start-up in October 1993, the airline has had more than 284 "service difficulties," according to the FAA, such as a plane rolling off the runway because of worn brakes. In the first five weeks of 1996, the carrier experienced four "incidents," as the FAA terms them: a hard landing and tail strike, a nose wheel that strayed off the runway when the crew could not see taxi lights, an aircraft that skidded...
While Anderson attributed Harvard's error-filled play to the players' over-excitement, Eckert noted that the weather also contributed to the frenzied atmosphere...
...simple overshoot." Nevertheless, the Israelis, who have contradicted themselves several times in an effort to explain how the atrocity occurred, insist that the report is grossly unfair. They say the attack was not deliberate and attribute the shelling of the U.N. compound to a combination of map-reading error and differing muzzle velocities. But with each effort to backtrack, Israel only seems to dig itself deeper into Qana's moral crater...
From a telephone poll of 1,011 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on May 8 and 9 by Yankelovich Partners, Inc. Sampling error is plus/minus 3.2%. *Asked of 826 registered voters. Sampling error is plus/minus...
...whether Admiral Michael Boorda deliberately wore Vietnam combat decorations he knew he was not entitled to wear. Arizona Senator and former Vietnam POW John McCain came to the admiral's defense and said Boorda could have made an honest mistake. But others in the military suggested that such an error was inconceivable, particularly for a man who had run a naval personnel office for years. Boorda shot himself in the chest Thursday soon after learning that a Newsweek reporter would be questioning him about two "V's" he wore with Vietnam War campaign medals. "The V is more prestigious than...