Word: pittsburgh
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Federal investigators have identified three possible reasons for the crash of USAir Flight 427 near Pittsburgh last Thursday, in which 132 people died. In addition to the mid-air deployment of thrust reversers, officials of the National Transportation Safety Board said that it was possible that the right engine came loose or that brakes were unevenly deployed...
...black boxes containing the pilots' cockpit conversation on doomed US Air Flight 427 were recovered today, and investigators hope the devices reveal more about the bizarre crash that claimed 132 lives. The jetliner en route from Chicago to Pittsburgh crashed at 7:15 P.M. yesterday. The Boeing 737 was approaching the airport to land when an explosion occurred and the craft disintegrated, according to witnesses. Another US Air flight crashed in Charlotte, N.C., last month, one of five fatal crashes the airline has experienced in the past half-decade. President Clinton offered condolences to the families of those aboard...
...play: sell the players on a salary cap (thereby limiting their total income, as other professional sports leagues do) and work out a mechanism for wealthy teams (the New York Yankees, the world champion Toronto Blue Jays) to share more revenue with their impoverished cousins (like the near bankrupt Pittsburgh Pirates and Selig's Brewers...
...price in 1988. Even the hapless Seattle Mariners, who have had only two winning seasons in their 17-year history, were successively sold for $13 million in 1981, $76 million in 1989 and $125 million in 1992. There are four or five serious bidders for the hand-to-mouth Pittsburgh Pirates (asking price: $85 million), a team that has reportedly lost $20 million in the past three years...
...last games of the season -- and maybe the year -- start at 7:35 EDT: St. Louis at Florida, New York at Philadelphia, Montreal at Pittsburgh, and Boston at Baltimore...