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Approaching Pittsburgh, Pa., a Boeing 737 coming in from Chicago plummets to the ground as it prepares to land. A rudder malfunction, causing the plane to move in the opposite direction the pilots intended, is blamed. The crash killed all 132 passengers and crew...
REMEDY Boeing redesigned and is in the process of refitting the rudder-control systems on the 1,300 737s in its U.S. fleet...
...Tobago. I do not romanticize the country, but neither do I denigrate it. Naipaul's attitude shows how well the colonial masters succeeded in their job of brainwashing. I am grateful that for every Naipaul, there is a Trinidadian writer like Earl Lovelace and a calypso musician like David Rudder. SUZETTE DE COTEAU Reading, England
...Politics is the more likely culprit. Some lawmakers worry that China?which has been looking to buy an aircraft carrier for a decade?might want to refit the ship for military use. It was sold for $20 million in 1998 before it was finished (it has no engine or rudder). The owners had threatened to abandon the Varyag, but press reports say its wait might end?if Beijing agrees to lift a domestic travel advisory discouraging Chinese tourists from visiting Turkey. In fact it's a great destination?if you don't intend to leave by aircraft carrier...
...events surrounding the collision a thousand times in his mind. His sub had gone down to 400 ft. and shot back again in a rapid-surfacing maneuver known as an "emergency blow"--directly underneath the Ehime Maru. As it broke the surface, the Greeneville's HY 80 steel rudder, specially reinforced to punch through ice, ripped open the stern of the Japanese ship. "When I put up the periscope after the collision and increased magnification, I saw all those little people tumbling in the water. I felt disbelief, regret, remorse, anxiety, rage, denial...This was something I had no control...