Word: flighted
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...second black box from the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 could prove the most important. Investigators at the National Transportation Safety Board lab in Washington are examining the cockpit voice recorder, recovered late Saturday evening. The recorder only contains 30 minutes of cockpit conversations before it starts taping over itself, but that should be enough to tell the story. It was less than 40 minutes into its New York City to Cairo run when the Boeing 767-300 ER dropped from 33,000 to 16,700 ft. in less than 40 seconds, paused, quickly climbed upwards for more than...
...that the first EgyptAir Flight 990 black box has given us is another piece of the puzzle - but one that rules out rather than provides an easy solution. The NTSB announced Wednesday that analysis of the flight-data recorder reveals that the doomed plane's initial descent was a controlled maneuver by the pilot rather than a precipitous plunge, and that the Boeing 767's thrust reversers had not deployed in mid-flight, ruling out a hypothesis popular in media coverage immediately after the Halloween night crash. The big question, of course, is what prompted the pilot, eight seconds after...
...Even the flight-data analysis was incomplete, however. The last six seconds of tape, which had been damaged while under water, remain to be deciphered. But even then, investigators now know that the recorder stopped working late in the dive, but before - according to radar data - the plane climbed more than a mile and a half before its final plunge into the ocean. So Wednesday's press conference was mostly a heads-up to the media on the fact that investigators have more questions than answers...
...muddy pasture. "It's like an archaeological dig," said Bob Benzon, the National Transportation Safety Board investigator leading the recovery. "We have to go down layer by layer." So far, the digging in the mud--and in the records of the jet and its flight--has only deepened the mystery of the tragedy...
Connie M. Ng '00 shelled out the same amount in the initial application process as McClelland but says the enormity of the expense did not occur to her until she began to make flight reservations to visit schools from Baltimore to St. Louis to Chicago...