Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even the most thorough of inspections. Case in point: experts suspect that microscopic cracks on a 300- lb. revolving disk caused the tail engine on a United Airlines DC-10 to blow apart last July. The mishap crippled the jet's hydraulic steering system, killing 112 people when the plane crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa. (McDonnell Douglas said last week that it would modify its DC-10s to ensure safe landings even if all hydraulic systems failed...
...rising public anxiety, Congress and federal regulators have vowed to examine the impact of takeovers on aircraft upkeep. Says California Democrat Norman Mineta, a member of the House Aviation Subcommittee: "No one should ever be put in the position of boarding an aircraft and having to worry if the plane is safe...
...task force was launched last year after a section of fuselage ripped off an Aloha Airlines 737, sucking a flight attendant out of the plane. The group's report on McDonnell Douglas aircraft followed a May FAA order for the overhaul of 1,300 vintage Boeing aircraft. Taken together, the moves were aimed at rejuvenating the 3,300-jet U.S. fleet, which averages 13 years of service per plane and is the oldest in the non-Communist world...
...been a long day of campaigning, and the Prime Minister had a cold. Wrapped in a violet overcoat, she leafed through stump speeches as the 1953 Convair turboprop plane bounced around over the stubby mountains of the Norwegian coastline...
...plane's engines were apparently cut off halfway down the runway and went into reverse thrust, said David Hawthorne, a CBS News producer, who was on the plane...