Word: errors
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National Transportation Safety Board officials have ruled out "wind shear" as a factor in the incident. Instead, they are looking into possible mechanical failure or crew error. It has been established that the automatic pilot system was in operation while the plane cruised at 41,000 ft. This mechanism keeps aircraft on a safe course at high altitudes, where the human eye cannot judge the angle of flight. But while a plane is operating under the system, even small variations in speed or flight angle can cause a stall or nose dive. A key question is whether Ming overrode...
...electorate did not mean to make some perverse endorsement of malice or falsehoods. Rather, voters realized that the motive of legislation like the Sedition Act was to silence the critics of those in power, and trusted that in time truth would conquer error. Occasionally, Government tested the principle anew. When the New York World and Indianapolis News alleged corruption in the development of the Panama Canal in 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered his Attorney General to sue. The courts quashed both cases before they could come to trial...
Three of the nine Justices wanted to ban outright all libel suits by public officials against critics of their performance. The full court went almost as far: it held that journalists should not be liable for the results of honest error about public matters, regardless of how false or injurious the report. Said Justice William Brennan in the majority opinion: "Raising as it does the possibility that a good-faith critic of government will be penalized for his criticism, the proposition relied on by the Alabama courts (that an attack on government performance is a personal attack on government officials...
Dean of Princeton College Joan Girgus told The New York Times earlier this week that an "administrative error" was to blame for Randlett's being allowed to register without signing the statement...
Hours after the story appeared, Coates resigned his portfolio while denouncing portions of the Citizen account as "wrong and libelous." For his part, a grim-faced Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said that Coates' error of judgment was one that "you or I or any other imperfect human being could make...