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...American Eagle commuter plane crashed on its approach to Raleigh-Durham International Airport in rainy and foggy weather, killing 15 of the 20 people aboard. The fatal accident was the second in two months for the shaken airline. Trying to allay mounting passenger fears, Transportation Secretary Federico Pena announced that approval of toughened safety standards for commuter flights would be speeded up, but the Federal Aviation Administration said it could take a year to put the new rules in place...
Federal investigators said today that Wednesday's American Eagle crash near Raleigh, N.C., came after one of the twin engines flamed out and stopped. According to the flight data recorder, the plane veered to the left as the pilots apparently struggled to regain control, then dropped suddenly seconds before impact. Fifteen of 20 aboard died in the crash...
...airline crash this fall -- Transportation Secretary Federico Pena today declared that such small aircraft have 100 days to meet the same safety standards imposed on larger planes. "We are very troubled by the number of accidents we've had this year," Pena said after visiting the crash site near Raleigh-Durham International Airport. The rule changes -- which follow last month's warning by the International Airline Passengers Association urging fliers to avoid all flights on planes with under 31 seats -- tighten safety inspections, reduce the number of hours pilots can fly and require dispatchers to help crews check weather, routes...
...bodyguard" if he visits North Carolina, but now that the smoke's cleared, he's blaming the media for the rhetorical debacle. "It was never a threat and everybody knew that," a reinvigorated Helms told reporters during a home state visit. He aimed his next shot at the Raleigh News & Observer, which he said should have included the word "jokingly" when it quoted him on Clinton's safety. But Helms saved his coup de grace for the media in general: "You need to play a large role in cleaning up your act . . . The liberal news media is guilty of intellectual...
Helms' distaste for foreign aid is longstanding, as he bluntly told a news conference in Raleigh the day after the election: "The foreign aid program has spent an estimated $2 trillion of the American taxpayer's money, much of it going down foreign ratholes to countries that constantly oppose us in the U.N." But he has limited room to maneuver. Total U.S. largesse abroad in 1994 comes to $12.3 billion. Half of that is military aid, a backdoor subsidy for U.S. weaponsmakers that he is unlikely to gut. Actual developmental aid, the kind conservatives love to hate, comes to only...