Word: plane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the air pressure that had built up in the cabin and cockpit as the plane climbed, the aft bulkhead buckled, apparently because of an almost invisible 12-in. crack. The sudden decompression blew off the entire nonpressurized tail cone-a lO-ft.-long metal shell serving mainly to streamline the fuselage...
...killed, only because no one was in the lavatories at the rear of the plane or near the gaping hole. Pilot George Gill skillfully edged the crippled craft to a safe landing at Logan, even though he lacked full power in the right engine, apparently because a buckle securing control cables along the fuselage had broken loose...
...bulkhead problem was not a new one for the DC-9. McDonnell Douglas warned airlines three years ago that fatigue cracks had shown up in some early models of the plane. The manufacturers advised airlines to inspect the bulkheads more frequently or reinforce all of these early-model DC-9s with "doubler" pieces...
...Canada had increased its inspections, but its mechanics overlooked the crack in the Boston plane until they re-examined old X rays of the bulkhead after the accident. Last week the FAA ordered U.S. carriers to make a special inspection of their...
...June an East Berlin engineer, while piloting a glider, suddenly changed course and rode thermal currents across to the West. In August a Dresden family stole a plane; though none of them had ever flown before, they managed to steer the craft across the border to a safe crash landing. Earlier this month, a driver assigned to U.S. Ambassador to East Germany David Bolen hid his family in the trunk of the envoy's official car, drove uninspected through "Checkpoint Charlie" and got political asylum in West Berlin...