Word: inboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Flight 103, the bomb was the size of a coffee cup, but it happened to be placed near the skin of the plane, where it broke through the fuselage and weakened the frame of the aircraft, causing the plane to break up. "If it had been inboard," says Ronay, "it might not have done that kind of damage. Luggage makes a good buffer." Terrorists may have been lucky with TWA Flight 800 as well...
...submitted 70,000 pages of internal documents to the NHTSA last week as part of the agency's review of pickup-truck safety. In a memo dated Sept. 7, 1970, safety engineer George Carvil warned of possible fuel leaks in side collisions. "Moving these side tanks inboard," he wrote, "might eliminate most of these potential leakers." An internal memo dated Dec. 15, 1983, by product analyst Richard Monkaba, discussed the company's plan to change the gas tank's position with its 1987 models. "The fuel tank will be relocated inside the frame rails," wrote Monkaba, "a much less vulnerable...