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...complete, one thing is becoming certain: the twin-engine Cessna 402B was too heavy to fly. With a maximum weight limit of 6,300 lbs. for takeoff, the loaded plane minus the passengers weighed in, officials estimate, at 5,495 lbs., leaving just 805 lbs. of capacity for the pilot and eight others. One of them, Aaliyah's bodyguard, Scott Gallin, weighed 300 lbs. Unless the others weighed less than 63 lbs. each, their chances were slim...
...fabric of rural life." The report by the Countryside Agency came as the army was called in to help contain more than a dozen new cases in a part of northeast England that had been free of the disease for three months. The government dismissed new calls for a pilot vaccination program...
...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) began a one-year pilot program this weekend that will offer late-night bus service on Friday and Saturday evenings. The “Night Owl” program creates 10 new bus routes that stop at the same stations that the subway system does during regular hours. Buses will depart from downtown Boston about every half hour beginning at 1 a.m. and ending at 2:30 a.m. Other feeder bus routes along the main transit corridors will have their hours similarly extended...
Think of yourself flying across the country. An engine starts sputtering; cause for alarm, sure, but the pilot does that folksy number--"Aw, shucks, little problem here"--and assures you the others can take the strain. Then a second engine goes out; the sweat trickles down your neck, but you reckon you'll make it to the ground safely. But if the third, and then the fourth, flame...
...says the bomb--dropped when the B-47 carrying it was hit by an F-86 fighter during an exercise--poses no threat, since it does not contain the capsule required to detonate a nuclear explosion, and is unlikely to spread toxic material. The B-47's pilot, retired Colonel Howard Richardson, supports that account; he tells TIME he did not personally inspect the bomb, but that he was briefed that the capsule was not on board. Others aren't convinced. Retired Colonel Derek Duke, who sparked the recent investigation, claims the bomb was complete and should be located...