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ABILENE, Texas--A military refueling jet bound for Hawaii with 19 people aboard crashed in a ball of flames on takeoff yesterday at Dyess Air Force Base, killing at least 17 people, the Air Force said...
...maintenance record for the plane, powered by four Pratt & Whitney jet engines, was not yet available, Peck said...
Airlines routinely lose baggage, and one airplane in flight last year even lost some of its skin. In the sky near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last week, a Boeing 737 lost something just as important: one of its two engines. Moments after takeoff, the jet's right engine somehow tore free from the wing at about 1,000 ft. and plummeted to a field below. The plane landed safely back at O'Hare, and all 32 people aboard Piedmont Flight 1480, bound for Charlotte, N.C., escaped injury. Smoke was "coming out of one engine," said a passenger...
...racial clauses are unwritten but not unspoken -- the election of the chairman of the Democratic Party. "The Democratic Party is the last, best hope of this country to deal with issues of race, region, religion and ethnicity," he says as he hops around the country in a Gulfstream jet loaned by the United Food and Commercial Workers union. "This election has become a test of that...
...preliminary evidence showed that the right engine of the jet, which had been functioning properly, was shut down by the crew in flight, while the left engine, which had caught fire, was allowed to remain in operation. Still unanswered...