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...freighter hurtled into a 10-story apartment building just 10 miles from the airport. As rescue workers uncovered the remains of 51 victims on the ground -- many others were incinerated and will never be found -- investigators searched for an explanation. El Al says an engine fire on the same plane last July was unrelated to the disaster. But recurring problems with microscopic cracks on the "fuse pins" that connect engines to the wings of Boeing jumbo jets are a possible culprit. As yet, there is no evidence linking fuse pins and the crash. But a similar crash in China last...
...past 10 months, however, two 747 cargo planes, model 200, have gone down in alarmingly similar circumstances. A China Airlines plane lost both its starboard engines shortly after takeoff from Taipei last December. Over Amsterdam last week, the engines on the El Al cargo flight's right wing also dropped...
Despite the logical suspicion that fuse pins may have failed in the two recent crashes, no one is calling the mainstay of international air transportation, the 747, unsafe. The plane has flown billions of problem-free passenger-miles. Indeed, when the U.S. Air Force and White House security officers painstakingly checked airplane safety records before selecting the new presidential carrier, Air Force One, they settled...
...commission that will gather evidence of atrocities in former Yugoslavia. The U.N. also voted to impose a ban on military flights over Bosnia to stop Serb air strikes, but it did not authorize enforcement of the ban. President Bush had offered to enforce the no-fly zone with U.S. planes, but France and Britain feared that if a Serb plane were shot down, their ground troops in Bosnia would be vulnerable to revenge attacks. There has, after all, been no shortage of those...
...BLAME? THE QUEStion ricocheted around the globe. From Amsterdam, where the charred remains of victims were being shoveled out of smoldering rubble. To Tel Aviv, where El Al Airlines fielded inquiries about its plane's safety record. To Seattle, where the Boeing Co. called on carriers worldwide to inspect the engine mountings of 551 747 jets. To Taiwan, where divers searched the ocean floor for fresh clues to the cause of a mysterious -- and perhaps similar -- crash last December...