Word: sabena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the fatal plunge of the 707 may have been caused by misbehavior of its hydraulic control system. There have been many instances, both proved and suspected, when the hydraulic system has made the aircraft extremely difficult for the pilot to control. This seems to have happened when a Sabena (Belgian) Airlines 707 crashed at Brussels in February 1961, killing 18 members of the U.S. figure-skating team. Though...
...sidewise. Sometimes, in yawing, the jets nearly roll over in a frightening phenomenon pilots call the "Dutch roll"-and eyewitness reports suggested that American One might have done just that. Two of the four previous fatal 707 crashes were attributed to yaw (the fifth fatal 707 crash, of a Sabena Airlines plane in Belgium, killed 73 people last year, and has never been explained). But all of the four crashes occurred on training flights, when the Boeing 707 was deliberately put through a series of the most strenuous tests. Recently, the tendency to yaw has been minimized by tailfin improvements...
...salvo landed smack in the center of the city, scoring a direct hit on a beauty parlor and shattering the windows of the Belgian airline, Sabena, as well as other offices along the street. U.N. salvos also hit Prince Leopold Hospital. The U.N. troops' performance seemed particularly sloppy, but Katangese fire often was not much more discriminating: many rounds fell into the Baluba camp, killing at least ten hapless tribesmen...
...also played "victory" cha cha chas. And after the heat of battle was over one day, most of the Katangese officers, chewing their entrecôtes de veau and pommes frites at the Leo II's dining room, could talk of little else but the tragedy of the Sabena guest house, where artillery that day had shattered one of the best restaurants in town...
...about 3 gal. per cow, operates pretty much like an automatic automobile washer, with the cow tripping the switches as she moves along the track. Says Corona, Calif.'s Milk Mogul Tony Cardoza: "The cows are much more relaxed now." CJ Automatic foreign-currency exchange machine, installed at Sabena airlines' passenger lounge at New York's Idlewild Airport, which trades currencies from France, England, Belgium, West Germany and Italy for a U.S. $5 bill. Manufactured by National Rejectors Inc., the machine reads the $5 bill electronically, and if it approves of it, tucks it away and dispenses...