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...never know if anybody was looking out the window," an air-traffic- control expert said of the two-man crew in the SkyWest Metro and the pilot and flight instructor occupying the Mooney. A priority rule of flying, regardless of whether controllers are monitoring a flight, is that someone must always be watching for other air traffic. When the two planes collided about 2,400 ft. above the Salt Lake valley, visibility was 20 miles...
Investigators said Pilot Chester Baker, owner of the Mooney, and Instructor Paul Lietz had been practicing "touch and go" landings and takeoffs at an airport near Kearns, Utah. At about 12:50 p.m. Baker touched down briefly, then lifted off and climbed sharply upward. The Metro, en route from Pocatello, Idaho, with six passengers and two crew members, was about to make a turn for its approach to the international airport...
...trekked across the Champs de Mars near the Eiffel Tower. Following the lead of President Francois Mitterrand, who deployed army troops to stricken areas across the country, French Premier Jacques Chirac mobilized some 1,800 soldiers to help remove the snow from Paris streets. The government ordered two Paris Metro stations to stay open all night to help shelter an estimated 15,000 homeless men and women. The weather was even more severe in other regions. The town of Mouthe, in the eastern Jura mountain area, was caught in a record -27 degrees, while the winegrowing Burgundy region...
...week's end maritime workers and the government reached a provisional accord containing concessions for the strikers. The rail strike continued unabated, however, and France's largest labor group, the Confederation Generale du Travail, called for stoppages in public utilities and Paris bus and Metro service to support demands for higher wages and work-rule changes. The deepening confrontation came just weeks after Premier Jacques Chirac bowed to student protesters in December by withdrawing plans to reform France's universities...
Unlike the cramped taxicabs that passengers around the world must frequently endure, the tall, black and boxy London taxi is well loved for its roominess and comfort. Conservative Londoners were thus greatly alarmed when a Birmingham company called Metro Cammell Weymann said it was building a streamlined rival to the traditional taxi, which is made by London Taxis International and first appeared...