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...water at 4,700 feet a minute ? 10 times faster than the normal rate of descent. Investigators aren?t sure what that says about the cause of the crash, other than that the problem was severe, and the plane was out of control. To TIME aviation correspondent Jerry Hannifin, that final plummet is a sign that the pilot simply took on more than he was qualified for. "Anyone who has flown regularly on the East Coast in summer knows that the horizon can disappear completely in the haze," says Hannifin. One scenario: Kennedy began a normal turn, and then lost...
...crash of a United Airlines flight outside Colorado Springs. The board determined that a mechanical problem probably caused the crashes when the airliner rudder reversed, and recommended that the problem be fixed by making the rudder system redundant. "It's about time," says TIME reporter Jerry Hannifin...
More than 3,100 Boeing 737's are currently in service worldwide. Over the years, says Hannifin, "there have been dozens and dozens of pilot reports and complaints about rudder problems." Some safety changes were made as a result of the complaints, including new equipment and better pilot training, but these were simply "Band-Aid fixes," says Hannifin, adding: "The real question here is why today's recommendations were not mandated by the government at least four years ago." Critics of the government and the industry wonder whether money is not behind the delay. Not only will reengineering the rudder...
...workers are in great demand and often help out at other airlines. They have not had a single crash in nearly 20 years. The downed plane was seven years old, a mere babe in industry terms. "This was a descendant of the DC-10," says TIME aviation expert Jerry Hannifin, "and a hell of a reliable stable airplane." Nevertheless, there was one incident last year at Newark Airport in which a Federal Express-owned MD-11 crashed on landing. That investigation is ongoing. Now the NTSB has another, greater mystery on its hands...
...dismissed speculation the crash had anything to do with the fact that the "ancient" plane (they stopped making the DC-8 15 years ago) full of blue jeans bound for the Dominican Republic had been scheduled to take off the previous night. Hannifin pointed out cargo operations such as Fine Air customarily operate "on demand," not sticking to any working schedule...