Word: panning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wife Kathleen became ill; his 74-year-old father John collapsed. Other Lockerbie survivors had fits of anxiety and sleeplessness as well. Mack sympathized immediately with the hundreds of families who were reeling from the disaster, unable to comprehend, unable to get information. He remembers arguing with a Pan Am representative who refused to check the names of his brother, his traveling companion and another relative who might have been on the flight. When he finally got help, the airline employee said, "Well, we have two out of three. You're lucky on the one." The TWA incident, says Mack...
...however, those responsible will probably remain undetected for some time. "This is going to take a long, difficult investigation," says a U.S. official. How long? In the case of Pan Am Flight 103, it took nine days just to determine that the disaster was caused by a bomb. Identifying the alleged culprits--who were eventually found to have been sponsored by Libya--took an additional three years of work. And because of protection from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the suspects were never even brought to trial. Unlike the 270 people they are accused of murdering, those men are walking...
...modern era of air terrorism--and antiterrorist technology--began on Dec. 21, 1988, when Pan Am Flight 103 was blasted out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, brought down by 14 oz. of plastic explosives packed into a radio-cassette recorder in a piece of luggage. At least the modern era was supposed to have begun then. Subsequent investigations revealed deep fissures in U.S. airline-security systems. The crash also elicited heartfelt promises, in the form of the 1990 Aviation Security Improvement Act, to ensure that the tragedy would not be repeated...
...scanning) and high-quality X-ray imaging to produce cross-sectional images of a bag's contents. The CTX 5000 is the only device available that is equipped to detect all varieties of bombs: military explosives that might be concealed behind a circuit board, like the bomb that brought Pan Am Flight 103 down; plastic-sheet explosives contained in suitcase linings; and commercial explosives that might be composed of dynamite and powders. The FAA has contributed $8 million to help develop the CTX 5000, but installing it at the 75 busiest airports in the country would cost between $400 million...
...dismal. TWA has flown in and out of bankruptcy twice this decade, losing more than $2 billion in the process. It has managed to survive largely on the willingness of its workers, who own 30% of the company, to grant whopping concessions to keep it from following fellow pioneers Pan Am and Eastern into aviation history...