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...plane glided smoothly onto the runway in New York and my neighbor became absorbed into the surge of people leaving the airport. I looked out at the suited women and men hopping into their cabs and assorted car services and, from the perspective of security that two more years of undirected life provides, felt strangely excited about the possibilities of post-college life...
...fashion's Frank Lloyd Wright. In the more than 50 collections he has produced since 1968, Calvin Klein has remained Seventh Avenue's most devout modernist, its pre-eminent avatar of form-follows-function thinking. Each season his models have ambled down the runway in clothes created in quiet protest against fashion's outlandish theatricality. He has never dabbled in a world of beaded headgear or rubber cocktail dresses. "I've always believed in simplicity," Klein reflects. "I've never been one to see women in ruffles and all kinds of fanciful apparel. To me it's just silly...
Even if this particular tragedy can be characterized as human error, however, the crash has laid bare ValuJet's uneven safety record. Since its start-up in October 1993, the airline has had more than 284 "service difficulties," according to the FAA, such as a plane rolling off the runway because of worn brakes. In the first five weeks of 1996, the carrier experienced four "incidents," as the FAA terms them: a hard landing and tail strike, a nose wheel that strayed off the runway when the crew could not see taxi lights, an aircraft that skidded...
...airline has experienced a long sequence of nonfatal mishaps. In January 1994 a ValuJet DC-9 skidded off an icy runway in Washington, forcing the closure of the airport. Last June the crew of a ValuJet DC-9 taxiing in preparation for takeoff from Atlanta heard a loud bang as an engine failed, scattering shrapnel that injured seven passengers and causing a fire that spread to the fuselage. Within 90 seconds smoke had engulfed the passenger compartment. The crew's prompt evacuation of the passengers drew praise from a controller who watched the scene through binoculars--but also caused...
...know when and, more important, when not to go flying. In the aborted takeoff from Cheyenne, the most logical thing for the pilot to do would have been to make an emergency landing on the available area ahead of the plane and past the runway. This seems to me a lack of good decision making by the pilot. CRISITAN HIESTAND West Vancouver, British Columbia...