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...trouble," radioed someone in Flight 123's cockpit, using English, the language of international aviation. "Request turn back to Haneda. Descend and maintain 220 [22,000 ft.]." Two minutes later, a member of the cockpit crew pushed a switch that sent an emergency code signal, "7700," flashing onto radar screens in Tokyo. Asked Tokyo control: "Confirm you are declared emergency. Is that right?" Flight 123: "Yes. Affirmative...
Tokyo air-traffic control directed the troubled aircraft to turn to the east for a return to Haneda. At this point, radar showed the plane at 24,500 ft., flying at 471 m.p.h. But at 6:28 p.m., the radar indicated Flight 123 was heading northwest instead of east. Radioed Tokyo: "Fly magnetic 90 degrees." The reply from the craft was ominous: "But now uncontrol...
...cabin, Ochiai felt the plane go into what she called a hira-hira, a word that describes the falling of a leaf, gentle and twisting. Radar now placed the plane at 21,860 ft., near the altitude its crew had requested. About three minutes later, Tokyo told the crew where the plane was: "You are now 72 nautical miles from Nagoya. Do you want to land at Nagoya?" A coastal city, Nagoya is 160 miles southwest of Tokyo. But the crew wished to get back to Haneda. The aircraft was now climbing again, back to 24,500 ft., and slowing...
France has taken the threat of nuclear terrorism relatively seriously. Its 59 generators and treatment facilities are protected by armed guards and, following 9/11, aerial radar. Nuclear power plants are state-managed, eliminating the profit motive as an incentive for cutting back on safety. --Reported by Bruce Crumley/Paris, Hanna Kite/Hong Kong, J.F. O. McAllister/ London, Ursala Sautter/Bonn and Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo
...unsatisfying and minor, a predictable blip on the national baseball radar: two unmemorable box scores scrolling by meekly on ESPN during one hot weekend in early June...