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Gross overbooking produced a nightmare at Newark's North Terminal on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, People's busiest day of the year. The cramped building was so crowded that human gridlock developed. Hundreds of people never made it onto a plane and spent the night at the airport. On Dec. 20, People stranded 160 Newark-bound passengers in San Francisco because of overbooking...
...group of impatient travelers waited nearly three hours to board Flight 197 to Greensboro. At one point, a young man in blue jeans and a Chicago Cubs baseball cap shouted, "I've taken a poll, and everybody here is pissed off at People Express." When told that the plane was finally arriving at the gate, the crowd broke into applause and alleluias. One couple sang an impromptu song to the tune of Somewhere from West Side Story: "There's a plane for us. A time and plane...
...about safety in the skies. Nearly 2,000 people died around the world in commercial air accidents in 1985, making it aviation's deadliest year. The worst crash occurred when a Japan Air Lines 747 slammed into a mountain last August, killing 520 people in history's largest single-plane accident. In Dallas 134 died when a Delta L-1011 crashed trying to land in bad weather. Another 329 people lost their lives in the midair breakup of an Air-India 747 off Ireland. In December a DC-8 military charter crashed and burst into flames while taking off from...
...record numbers of travelers crowd into airports, the question of safety is on many minds. Just the thought of hurtling miles above the ground inside a slender aluminum tube is enough to give some people sweaty palms. Even frequent flyers often breathe a sigh of relief when their plane at last touches down...
...accident last year were 1 in 600,000. That was up sharply from 1 in 3.7 million n 1984, but still compares favorably with other forms of travel. On a mile-for-mile basis, Americans are nearly 100 times as likely to die in car accidents as in plane crashes. Secor Browne, former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board and now a Washington consultant, calls aviation easily "the safest mode of transportation." He adds, "If you're afraid to fly, then you better not take a bath, and God forbid, don't get in your...