Word: errors
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Individually, each of these incidents could be a rare mistake or malfunction. But together they form a pattern of blunders that calls into question Delta's competence. Said Acting FAA Administrator Robert Whittington: "Each incident apparently involved human error, and this is a matter of great concern to us." The agency will examine, among other things, the carrier's pilot-training programs and long-range navigation procedures...
When readers of the New York Times glanced at the paper one morning last week, coffee cups rattled and bleary eyes widened. There, across two columns at the top of Page One, was an extraordinary mea culpa: A CORRECTION: TIMES WAS IN ERROR ON NORTH'S SECRET-FUND TESTIMONY. Two days earlier the Times had reported that Lieut. Colonel Oliver North testified that the late CIA Director William Casey wanted to use the profits from arms sales to Iran to set up a covert-operations fund that would be kept secret from Ronald Reagan. In fact, North testified only that...
...right for the Times to admit the error, but the prominence of the correction dismayed some staffers. Craig Whitney, the Times Washington bureau chief, said he felt "immense surprise" when he saw the headline. At the Times's New York City newsroom, where the tiniest changes are often analyzed more carefully than seating plans at the Kremlin, reporters debated the propriety of the correction. All agreed, however, that it was the most remarkable sign yet of the controlling hand of Max Frankel, who became the paper's executive editor in November...
FOOTNOTE: *Conducted by telephone on July 9 among 612 adult Americans by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. The sampling error is plus or minus...
...crew managed to restart the engines and resume the trip to Cincinnati, but the pilots were suspended on arrival. The Federal Aviation Administration immediately ordered the installation of plastic switch-guard shields on the control panels of 767s and similarly equipped 757s to prevent a recurrence of the pilot error...