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...travel, once an expensive way to go, is now discounted almost as fiercely as videocassette recorders and used cars. A new fleet of cut-rate carriers, launched over the past seven years by a wave of airline deregulation, has entered the big time by offering startlingly cheap fares from coast to coast and on hundreds of routes in between. The bargain tariffs have encouraged more people to take more flights to more places than at any other time in history. This week that wanderlust will receive another huge boost when a new round of fare wars erupts among the airlines...
...disliked being assigned extra jobs on the ground. Between 1984 and 1985, the number of pilots dropped from 1,100 to about 950. "We're having a family crisis," says Philip Rogers, a 727 captain who has stayed on. Burr says the remaining pilots are enough to fly the fleet, and new ones are being hired...
...fleet of civilian aircraft is generally well regarded. While the Boeing 747 was involved in both the Air-India and the Japan Air Lines disasters, pilots still give the jumbo jet high marks. One British Airways captain, referring to the 747's ability to tolerate errors, calls the plane "the most forgiving thing that flies." Experts are concerned, though, that some carriers may be flying their aircraft too long. "The problem of an aging fleet is a constant one," says John Galipault, president of the Aviation Safety Institute, an Ohio-based consumer watchdog group. "Planes are like people--you have...
...qualified are the pilots who fly the U.S. commercial fleet? The rapid growth of airlines since deregulation has created a need for more people in the cockpit, and major airlines have raided commuter carriers for some of their top personnel. In addition, a few pilots are jumping from one airline to another in order to gain higher pay. Warns Patricia Goldman, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board: "The enormous turnover rate of the pilot population results in pilots who just meet FAA requirements. It means crews flying together who have limited experience of working with each other...
NASA and the Navy have tried to keep a tight lid on the recovery of the astronauts' bodies, but some details inevitably came to light. Discovered resting on the ocean floor by the 15-ship search fleet that has been scouring the waters off Canaveral since the Jan. 28 disaster, the Challenger's crew compartment, 16.5 ft. by 17.5 ft. by 16.3 ft., was ruptured but not completely destroyed. The lower mid-deck, where Astronauts Ronald McNair and Gregory Jarvis and New Hampshire Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe had been seated, apparently absorbed the full force of the blast from the shuttle...