Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also spent a lot of time swimming at the nearby beaches, going to the theater and movies, and confessed to a friend that "Algiers is fatal even to the most single-minded student." In 1945, at the end of World War II, Moslems staging an independence celebration in Setif clashed with the police and Europeans. Some 5,000 Moslems were killed, and the French began arresting everyone in sight, including Benkhedda and his fellow committee members on the Moslem Students Union. He spent six months in grim Barberousse prison-which the F.L.N. promises to raze and replace with a park...
...every fatal accident of any aircraft-is exhaustively investigated by the CAB's 171-man Bureau of Safety, which employs experts on practically everything having to do with flying. If even more expertise is needed, the bureau is empowered by law to call for help from all Government agencies, including the armed services, the Bureau of Standards and the FBI. Its technical detectives do not always "get their man." Yet, in the last ten years CAB has found the probable cause in 96% of all cases investigated...
...stall caused by prematurely retracted flaps would be due to pilot error, and in the opinion of CAB men, the crew that died at Idlewild was unusually competent; Captain James Heist had 18,000 hours, of which 1,600 were in 707s. So other theorists suspect that the fatal plunge of the 707 may have been caused by misbehavior of its hydraulic control system. There have been many instances, both proved and suspected, when the hydraulic system has made the aircraft extremely difficult for the pilot to control. This seems to have happened when a Sabena (Belgian) Airlines 707 crashed...
Monkey Danger. Thousands of lives have been saved with polio vaccines made from virus grown in cells from monkeys' kidneys. But monkeys harbor a mysterious "monkey virus B," which is nearly always fatal in man. At least 18 lab workers, write Drs. Frances M. Love and Erwin Jungherr of Lederle Laboratories, have become infected with "monkey B"-and many other cases have gone undiagnosed...
...inherent vice in all swept-wing jets-the tendency to yaw, or slip sidewise. Sometimes, in yawing, the jets nearly roll over in a frightening phenomenon pilots call the "Dutch roll"-and eyewitness reports suggested that American One might have done just that. Two of the four previous fatal 707 crashes were attributed to yaw (the fifth fatal 707 crash, of a Sabena Airlines plane in Belgium, killed 73 people last year, and has never been explained). But all of the four crashes occurred on training flights, when the Boeing 707 was deliberately put through a series of the most...