Word: midair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turn out to be good news for Boeing. The reason? Airlines are now even more anxious to replace their older planes with newer models. Days after Newsday said that a draft report by the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the 26-year-old plane essentially came apart in midair, Continental Airlines finalized a $3.5 billion order with Boeing to upgrade its fleet. "That 747 had logged 110,000 flying hours," Lee Kreindler, who represents some of the families in civil suits against Boeing, told TIME Online. "It was designed for 60,000 hours. A new airplane wouldn't have...
...sniffing and satellite equipment succeeds in keeping people on the ground safe from volcanoes, people in the skies could still be at risk. For them the danger comes from volcanic ash, which can choke the engines of passenger jets. Since the 1960s there have been 85 such midair encounters, and while none have led to a fatal crash, some have come close...
...grace, Cirque's menagerie (Edvard Munch's silent screamer, Clive Barker's Pinhead and dozens of other glamorous mutants) capers around them like bit players in an amiable madman's reverie. Ballerina-contortionists flex gaily; Pierrots bodysurf across the stage on skateboards; the man with the newspaper floats in midair. Dragone exhausts the laws of geometry, while the performers bend the laws of physics...
Ever since TWA Flight 800 exploded in midair on July 17, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and the FBI have been scrambling to determine what caused the Boeing 747 jumbo jet to plunge into the Atlantic, killing all 230 people on board. From the beginning, the theories--a missile, an exploding fuel tank, a mechanical failure or possibly even a meteorite strike--seemed almost as confusing as the jumbled pieces of the plane. And then a set of tantalizing clues emerged. Investigators discovered that several pieces of recovered wreckage bore minute traces of chemical explosives. That evidence provided...
...fire in the plane. It was old and faulty equipment. It was the hydraulic system, the electrical system, the structure. A small aircraft hit it in midair. It was a terrorist bomb. Nearly everyone suspects that first and strongest, and the more officials say not to speculate about it, the more one speculates. Within a few hours, when it is clear that none of the 200-plus people who were on TWA Flight 800 are going to be found alive, the mood of the town is laden with sorrow. East Moriches (established early 1700s, population a little more than...