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...Sunday, Aug. 16, the radio tower at Metropolitan Airport cleared Flight 255 for departure. Captain John R. Maus, 57, a veteran pilot with 20,000 hours of flight experience, 2,000 of them in MD-80s, taxied the plane onto runway 3-Center North. The plane, loaded with a full 39,128 lbs. of jet fuel and 6,000 lbs. of baggage, hurtled farther than normal down the runway and rose less than 50 feet before plunging. In the cockpit, a computer- generated voice repeated the words "stall . . . stall," indicating that the airflow over the wings was no longer sufficient...
...fall collections just unveiled by Paris couturiers leave no doubt: something is up on the fashion runway, and it is more than hemlines. After several drowsy years, couture is in again by being far-out again. The new high-fashion collections have exploded in a colorful array of stylized, theatrical creations, and in the process have stolen back much of the action from the swaggering ready-to-wear industry. The relentlessly ballyhooed miniskirts, to be sure, are riding high -- very high. But in addition, the couture lines offer daring, bewitching and wacky costumes that pay homage to, . among other things...
What is going on at Delta Air Lines? Hardly a day seems to pass without news of another near disaster involving one of the Atlanta-based carrier's jets. Last week a Delta 767 landed on the wrong runway in Boston and forced a nearby plane to stop suddenly to avoid a crash. Then two Delta jets leaving Los Angeles faced mechanical difficulties. One plane's flight was aborted on the runway because of a malfunctioning warning light; the other took off but had to return to the airport when a pressurization problem surfaced. Those episodes, added to several other...
...plane diving, nose-down," said Anna Zagorska, an eyewitness who lives nearby. "There was an explosion that shattered the glass in our house." Four miles short of the airport runway, the flaming aircraft sliced through 500 yards of treetops in the Kabaty Woods, near the town of Piaseczno, and crashed to the ground. All 183 aboard, including 17 Americans, were killed...
...must confess, is not original. Recently, a wild boar attacked a Pakistan Air Force F-16 as it was taking off and, according to UPI, the animal knocked off the nosewheel. Although the pilots ejected safely, the $30 million plane was completely destroyed when it crashed on the runway as a result of the attack...