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...hotel in St. Louis, the 30-year veteran pilot who had been scheduled to serve as first officer on Flight 800 could not bring himself to feel lucky. He had been pulled off because a fellow first officer needed to meet his deadline for an annual in-flight "check"--part of the system that monitors pilots' skills throughout their career. "Most pilots are fatalistic," he said about his good fortune. But he and other TWA pilots had little, if any, doubts about the cause of the tragedy. "That aircraft has had 25 years' experience without a catastrophic accident," says...
...event leaves the rest of us in a state of unease and vulnerability. The flight attendant still instructs us to fasten our seat belts and to bring our seat backs and tray tables to an upright position before takeoff--all the irritating in-flight punctilio, with its bloodless ritual language--but as we strap ourselves in, our minds are projecting fireballs, and calculating odds, and trying to calm themselves more urgently than before. The worst part of jet travel is our eggs-in-a-carton passivity: inert flesh encapsulated for a leap of faith that may be (we tell ourselves...
...talk about her. Cahn tells stories of Thomas bringing food to sick friends and being the friend on whom he can always count. She was the most consistent letter writer to Cahn when he was in Honduras last summer. She sent him an article she ripped out of an in-flight magazine that was about a woman who worked in Honduras--it had nothing to do with anything else Cahn was doing--and sent it to him, saying it reminded...
...Since the crash, the FAA has decided to move up and extend a previously scheduled seven-day checkup of the airline. The new investigation will focus on contract maintenance, cockpit resource management , internal processes for monitoring the maintenance of ValuJet aircraft, and dispatch and control of in-flight operations. The FAA continues to reassure passengers that the price of a ticket has nothing to do with the safety of an airline. -->