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Though Van der Beugel will probably get the money, his appeal is KLM's biggest break yet with its tradition of stubborn independence. An even greater break may be in the making. Four years ago, the principal Common Market airlines-Lufthansa, Air France, Alitalia and Belgium's Sabena-began to discuss pooling of their resources in a European Air Union in order to compete more effectively with Pan Am, TWA, and other international lines. KLM walked out after the first meetings in disgust at its proposed share of the combined revenues. But Dutch parliamentarians are unlikely...
...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...
Belgian government has said nothing, it is an open secret in Washington that when Sabena's 707 nosed up sharply and fell in a whirling stall, its controls were found locked in full nose-up position...
...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...