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...reported fears proved tragically prophetic. On Feb. 9, as Flight 350 approached Tokyo's Haneda Airport, Katagiri apparently threw two of the four engines into reverse, causing the plane to plunge into Tokyo Bay some 300 yds. short of the runway. Of 174 passengers and crew aboard the Japan Air Lines DC-8 bound from Fukuoka, 24 people died. Police claimed last week that Katagiri told them he felt ill the morning of the flight. Said he: "After I switched from auto to manual operation just before landing, I felt nausea, then an inexplicable feeling of terror, and completely...
...wake of the tragedy of Air Florida Flight 90 [Jan. 25], airlines should set up final de-icing procedures where and when it will do the most good-at the end of the taxiing runway just prior to takeoff. Laurence J. McCaffery Butte, Mont...
...only to his pilot: "This one's got about a quarter to half an inch [of ice] on it." Despite the unequivocal federal regulation against flying with snow, frost or ice on the wings or engines, they taxied out to take off. Pettit was at the controls. "Slushy runway. Do you want me to do anything special for it or just go for it?" he asked. Wheaton: "Unless you got anything special you'd like to do." Pettit then described his planned ascent maneuvers, with the final, jesting caveat, "depending on how scared...
...accelerating plane splashed down the runway, Pettit was alarmed by the instrument readings for engine thrust. "God," he said, "look at that thing. That don't seem right, does it? Ah, that's not right." Wheaton: "Yes, it is." Pettit: "Naw, I don't think that's right. Ah, maybe it is. I don't know...
...Florida Flight 90 in Washington, D.C., eleven days earlier used the plane's flight recorder data to reconstruct its takeoff. The Boeing 737 took 47 sec. rather than the usual 30 sec. to reach its lift-off speed of 147 knots, thus putting it farther down the runway than normal when it ascended. The plane stayed aloft less than 30 sec. and reached a maximum height of 337 ft. when it should have been much higher. Investigators are looking into the possibility that runway slush slowed the plane on takeoff. They also wonder whether ice formed on the aircraft...