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Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board focused on the buildup of ice on the plane's wings while it waited 23 minutes between deicing and takeoff. Another possible factor: pilot inexperience. Copilot Lee Bruecher, 26, who was apparently at the craft's controls on takeoff, had only 36 1/2 hours of flight time on DC-9s. The veteran pilot, Captain Frank Zvonek, 43, had logged only 33 hours as a DC-9 captain...
British trade officials are not alone in provoking the wrath of U.S. authorities. In May 1985, according to the French newsmagazine L'Express, five cases of industrial materials were shipped via Air France from Paris to Luxembourg, where the crates were to be placed aboard an Aeroflot plane bound for Moscow. French customs agents had not bothered to check out the cases, but Luxembourg officials demanded they be opened. Inside they found equipment for the manufacture of so-called bubble memory chips, a U.S.-made state-of-the-art semiconductor ideally suited for storing guidance information in missiles. A French...
...Customs officials finally managed to outwit McVey in early 1982, when he tried to smuggle a Memorex computer out of California on a private plane. When the plane stopped in Houston, Customs inspectors replaced the computer with a load of sand. The sand was duly shipped to the Institute of Space Research in Moscow. McVey's capture last summer foiled his latest scheme: a plan to steal the designs for a new supercomputer being developed by the Saxpy Computer Corp. in Silicon Valley. The computer can be used to track satellites and missiles...
...wondering why a seatbelt was in a video game when the plane rose from the aircraft carrier, taking me with it. Or so it felt...
...panicked, fumbling with the throttle controls and hitting the afterburners. I was slammed into the back of my seat. I tried to steer the plane against the oncoming tide of planes and missiles and I banked the craft hard to one side. I tried to steer the other way and the plane began to do about 123,000 barrel rolls. And then I got shot down, and it felt like an earthquake hit the machine...