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Move over N.R.A.! The FAA poses a greater threat to the lives of Americans. GORDON TUBB London, Ontario...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Three commercial pilots who reported seeing at least one missile in the air while flying over the same New York airspace where TWA Flight 800 exploded have the FAA on rumor control all over again. Pilots of Northwest, Delta, and USAirways flights heading westward over New York City toward Philadelphia on March 21 all reported what they though were possible missile sightings. What the pilots may have seen were two D-5 Trident missiles fired at that time by the submarine USS West Virginia off the coast of Florida, says the FAA. Because the night was very clear...
TUCSON, Arizona: A ten-mile circle on a snowy Colorado mountain is now the target of the search for Air Force Captain Craig Button and his runaway plane. Working with FAA radar tracks and several eyewitness accounts, the Colorado Civil Air Patrol has placed Button's A-10, an $8.8 million plane loaded with four 500-pound bombs, on New York mountain, about 20 miles southwest of Vail. The mystery of why Button left the Arizona-bound flight path of his three-plane team has raised speculation that he might have purposely broken away. There have been several incidents...
...Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, jury selection began quietly Monday some 600 miles north in Denver in the criminal trial of suspect Timothy McVeigh. In Oklahoma City, fewer than 75 survivors and relatives showed up at the 320-seat auditorium set aside by the federal government in an FAA building to watch the proceedings on closed-circuit television, though demand for seats is expected to grow keen once the trial begins. While extensive security precautions have been taken to lock down the area around the Denver courthouse where McVeigh is being held, the initial interviews of four potential jurors from...
...combat the problem, the USGS is deploying detectors around volcanoes so that air-traffic controllers can be alerted when an ash cloud belches forth. While this could go a long way toward making the skies safer, the business of setting up the instruments is going slowly. Currently, the faa, which funds the project, is devoting only $2 million a year to it, barely enough to equip two volcanoes. At that rate, it would take 275 years before all the world's active peaks were covered...