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...terrible moments at Tenerife served as a reminder that modern man, such an assumed master of technology, will never be able to control perfectly the wondrous machines he creates. Seventy investigators???representing Spain, which holds sovereignty over the Canary Islands, the U.S., The Netherlands, Pan Am and KLM?probed the disaster. Human error seemed the most probable cause. As U.S. Federal Aviation Administrator John McLucas put it: "Apparently not everybody had his head up." The only other possibility was an unlikely malfunction in radio equipment that could have prevented the KLM pilot from hearing the last vital communications from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: ...What's he doing? He'll kill us all!' | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

Bailey's team?longtime friend and associate J. Albert Johnson, 42, two associate lawyers and three or four private investigators???amassed large loose-leaf notebooks for the Hearst trial that total more than 500 pages. They are indexed by witness and cross-indexed by subject. The night before a witness is to appear, Bailey memorizes that section, then almost never uses notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Piloting Patty's Defense | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

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