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...taken. Beyond a few slender details, the tragedies of British Airtours Flight KT 328 and Japan Air Lines Flight 123 have little in common. But last week's air disaster at Manchester International Airport, in the north of England, coming just ten days after the crash of the JAL jumbo jet, had a numbingly familiar ring: the reports of panicked passengers screaming for help, a plane with a sound safety record lying twisted and charred. The grim toll of the dead, this time, was 54. Miraculously, 83 survived the blaze that engulfed the Boeing 737 shortly after an engine exploded...
...built for Boeing by Pratt & Whitney of East Hartford, Conn. In the case of Air India Flight 182, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the Irish coast on June 23, killing all 329 aboard, a bomb is suspected of having caused the 747 to disintegrate in midair. The JAL crash on Aug. 12, which claimed 520 lives, is still under investigation, but speculation continues that the rear pressure bulkhead cracked in flight...
...back of the aircraft, enveloped the cabin. Passengers in the rear section are believed to have been overcome immediately by smoke and the toxic fumes that result when polyurethane seat coverings, acrylic carpeting and plastic foam in the seats catch fire. Unlike the lucky few passengers on the JAL flight, for whom rear seats proved a lifesaver, passengers seated in the back of Flight KT 328 never had the slimmest chance of escape...
...future, Japan can expect to meet more protests from save-the-whalers. The activist conservation group Greenpeace, for one, is organizing a boycott of Japan Air Lines by attempting to pressure travel agents in twelve countries served by JAL to ticket passengers on other carriers. But there is some fear that the protests will be too late and that the U.S. reluctance to censure the Japanese might encourage other nations to resume whaling. That could bring to an end the decade-long effort to save sperm whales from depletion. In Hasui's view, that is not a problem because...
Apart from accusations that he cracked up at the controls, Katagiri may face criminal indictment for abandoning his passengers and plane so quickly. "It's unbelievable that he was among the first to take the rescue boat," said JAL President Yasumoto Takagi. Pictures later showed the captain, with a bland expression and wearing a cardigan, aboard a bus after he had reportedly told officials he was an office worker. He could receive a five-year jail term if convicted under Article 75 of Japan's civil aviation law, which requires a pilot to do his best to minimize...