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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...
...Force would give regular training for pilots on civilian Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Systems; would implement new procedures to rely more heavily on radar and contact with controllers in identifying unexpected aircraft, and will conduct a special review of military operations in the region in cooperation with the FAA. While U.S. military craft will continue to guard coastal air space from intruders, commercial airliners hopping from Miami to Manhattan should not fear that they will be mistaken for hostile military planes...
Both Pentagon and FAA officials expressed concern that some hotdogging may have occurred in the first flyby. Confirmation will have to await completion of a probe by the National Transportation Safety Board. Major General Donald Sheppard, head of the Air National Guard, attempted to put events in a positive light by noting with satisfaction that his pilots--and airline passengers as well--are learning about the sensitivity of the crash-avoidance gear installed on airliners in recent years. Such onboard units "are alerting us to things that happened all the time that we never knew before," he said. "This...