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...pilots said they followed standard wind shear procedure: turning the nose up and using full power. Greenlee, 38, has 9,100 hours of flying time, while Hayes, 41, has 13,000 hours...
...neither pilot could explain why the flight data recorder indicated the nose was down. And Greenlee said he didn't remember telling Hayes "down, push it down." Hayes didn't remember him saying it either...
...swiftly that people watching from the ground disagreed on the exact sequence. But as best their stories could be pieced together, the Boeing 737-300's two jet engines spooled down, and smoke trailed from the one on the left wing. The plane rolled belly-up, banked and fell nose first, almost vertically, through 6,000 ft. of sky. Witnesses could not agree whether it exploded before it plowed into a hillside or on impact...
...USAir Boeing 737, en route from Chicago to Palm Beach, Florida, via Pittsburgh, went into a fatal nose dive just a few minutes before landing at the Pittsburgh airport. All 132 people aboard perished in the crash, the reasons for which were not clear. The crew's frantic last words -- "Oh God Traffic emergency!" -- indicated trouble but were not specific. Investigators are hoping that flight data from the plane's black box will provide further clues...
...gripping book Hot Zone, about a deadly-virus crisis in Virginia in 1989 (see following stories). Sabia is almost certainly carried by rodents and is not contagious by casual contact (the afflicted scientist evidently got it from tiny bits of tissue that flew into his unprotected eyes or nose or both). The Yale lab, moreover, is classified as a level-3 biohazard facility, meaning, among other things, that it is kept at negative air pressure. Outside air can flow in through tiny cracks, but air flows out only via heavily filtered vents...