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...that he could help train new pilots. The rest of the crew included a co-pilot, a flight engineer and twelve cabin attendants. There were 509 passengers aboard the 747SR, a short-range version of the jumbo. JAL and All Nippon Airways are the only airlines that fly this model, which is structurally strengthened to absorb the jolts of the frequent takeoffs and landings required by shorter routes. As part of its fleet of 49 747s, the largest of any carrier in the world, JAL operated ten of the short-range types, which can accommodate more seats. The flight...
...Only 15 of the jumbos have been lost, and none of the previous accidents were attributed to structural or mechanical defects. Still, the sundered tail sections that dropped into Sagami Bay last week suggested that some kind of structural weakness may finally have caught up with one particularly hardworking model...
...again the question of how many people should be packed into a single aircraft. No matter how safe the plane or how economically efficient the ever increasing payload, any accident involving a huge plane becomes potentially catastrophic in loss of life. Boeing has orders for the 747-300, a model configured to handle 600 passengers. Asked if that seemed wise, Jerome Lederer, founder of America's Flight Safety Foundation, said that evacuation of so many people in the event of trouble would be difficult, adding, "I would want to sit next to an emergency exit...
...group of evangelical chaplains has been suing the Navy for years on claims of alleged career discrimination), Evangelicals have usually found ways to give witness without offending the military's doggedly maintained principle of pluralism. This week's academy report may provide hints as to whether this admittedly tricky model can survive as Evangelicalism becomes more assertive and its critics more defensive. Meanwhile, if the report is released as expected, academy personnel will have precisely one week to digest it before the next impressionable first-year class arrives, on June 29. --With reporting by Jeff Chu/New York, Rita Healy/Denver, Maggie...
...engaged. "The 21/2 years of designing this hotel were like 90 days to me. No one saw me. I worked six days a week, and I was in ecstasy," he says. "Then we had to get financing, and that was work." It dawned on Wynn that his earlier, exhibitionist model-battling treasure ships outside Treasure Island, for example-needed to be turned, literally, outside in. "I thought, Could I have been wrong all this time about the feature being in the front of the hotel?" says Wynn. "The audience shouldn't be on the sidewalk. It should be inside-eating...