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...Tempo, suffered a damaged front axle and a flat tire while in hot pursuit of search committee members during a rain shower. The driver--who hoped the escapade would reveal the committee's meeting place--miscalculated the proper speed for a turn on a ramp at New York's LaGuardia Airport and the Newscar slammed into a curb. The reporters continued the chase on foot...
...announcing the charges, U.S. Attorney Andrew Maloney contended that upper management forced underlings "to keep the aircraft in flight at all costs" at three major airports: John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia in New York City and Hartsfield International in Atlanta. Many charges involve an illegal practice known as pencil whipping, or signing off on work that has not been performed. Mechanics allegedly failed to perform maintenance on cockpit gauges, landing gear, radar and fuel systems. While no accidents resulted from the neglected work, "thousands of innocent passengers may have been put at risk every day," Attorney General Dick Thornburgh...
...plane landed, the pilot announced the time--2.15 p.m. Nine minutes before our scheduled arrival time. A collective groan spread through the cabin. Then the plane began to taxi. And taxi. And it kept on taxiing. We did a tour of the entire LaGuardia runway system. Finally, we arrived at the gate...
...unlike the city's two former three-termmayors, Fiorello H. LaGuardia and Robert F.Wagner, Koch maintains that his fall from officehas cost him none of his popularity...
...away from the headquarters of the three networks and many other news organizations -- indeed, a CBS News producer was in the plane when it crashed and filed a report from the wreckage -- while the remains of the UTA airliner were scattered over 40 sq. mi. of remote desert. The LaGuardia crash offered both the surefire appeal of a happy ending for most passengers and a host of survivors available for interviews. The apparent cause of the USAir crash was quickly identified as pilot error, while befuddling doubts lingered about who bombed the UTA plane...