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What if a less skilled captain had been at the controls of that jumbo jet, struggling under emergency conditions that no pilot had ever faced? Or if an off-duty airline pilot, who happened to be on board, had not rushed to the cockpit to assist him? Or if the 181-ft.-long aircraft had ripped apart in even a slightly different way? Or if that Sioux City cornfield had been drought baked and hard instead of rain soaked and soft...
Before the crash, the pilot radioed to report that the 15-year-old jumbo jet experienced "complete hydraulic failure," Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Fred Farrar said. Parts of the plane were found 50 miles away...
...least 76 people were killed, and up to 43 others were missing and believed dead in Wednesday's spectacular crash of a DC-10 jumbo...
...Crimson tied the score in the bottom half of the inning when Co-Captain Nancy Prior drew a one-out bases loaded walk from Jumbo pitcher Tracy Cleverdon. But Harvard left the bases loaded, a problem which was to plague them throughout the rest of the game...
Just a week after President Bush unveiled his plan to bail out hundreds of insolvent savings and loans, some of them took a turn for the perverse by getting into a costly new interest-rate war. Houston's Commonwealth Savings cranked up the rates it pays on six-month "jumbo" certificates of deposit (typical size: $100,000) from 9.6% to a hefty 10.75%. In California, Pasadena's BancPlus Savings followed suit with a 10.5% six-month rate. One reason for the feverish run-up was the need for the thrifts to compensate depositors for the perceived risk of putting money...