Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until we know for sure that DC-10s are just as safe as any other airplane, the FAA should ground the plane. The cost in human terms is too great to do anything else...
...Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) decides to check into the matter to see if the DC-10 should be grounded. The conclusion? According to FAA Administrator James B. Busey, the nation's top aviation official, there is not sufficient evidence to keep the plane on the ground...
There is a precedent for such an action. All DC-10s were grounded for a month in 1979 after an American Airlines plane lost a wing engine during take-off. That accident took the lives of 258 people...
...plane circled Boston for nearly an hour as it dumped fuel over the ocean. The jet, coming from New York's LaGuardia Airport, made one rough touch-and-go landing at about 10 a.m. in an effort to jar the front wheel loose from its housing...
After circling several more times, the plane landed by dropping its wing wheels deftly to the runway in a gentle, but ungainly, landing, its nose scraping the pavement...