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...MOST TRAGEDIES, THE CRASH OF AN EL AL 747-200F cargo jet last week came without warning. Six minutes after taking off from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport bound for Tel Aviv, the pilot reported a fire in a right-wing engine. Seconds later another engine failed and the freighter hurtled into a 10-story apartment building just 10 miles from the airport. As rescue workers uncovered the remains of 51 victims on the ground -- many others were incinerated and will never be found -- investigators searched for an explanation. El Al says an engine fire on the same plane last...
...those who live in the flight paths of airports were realized on the quiet evening of Oct. 4, when an El Al 747-200F cargo crashed into a 10-story low-income apartment building in southeast Amsterdam. Laden with fuel and 114 tons of commercial cargo, the freighter had taken off from Schiphol Airport at 6:22 p.m., headed for Tel Aviv. Six minutes later, veteran pilot Isaac Fuchs issued a distress call, reporting a fire in a right-wing engine. As he circled back for the airport, dumping fuel in preparation for an emergency landing, he radioed that...
...unable to do it." But the real problem, Navy insiders grumbled, was bad judgment at the top. Said an officer: "Initially there was no high priority for this assignment. We were told to look for the ship, no more." Meanwhile the vessels and aircraft best equipped for spotting the freighter in the 800,000- sq.-mi. area, the aircraft carrier America battle group, were carrying out exercises hundreds of miles away...
...about full international monitoring of North Korea's nuclear facilities. "On any scale, the Korean nukes are far more important than a few Scuds," said an Administration insider. Only in the final day or so before the Ho arrived in Iran did word reach the Navy that intercepting the freighter was a high priority...
...Administration would like to avoid answering that question. Already reporters were asking what the U.S. intended to do about the Iran Salaam, an Iranian freighter suspected of transporting arms. Said spokesman Williams: "I don't think we plan to do anything further." That strategy, at least, is easy to execute...