Word: safes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They bailed out and were back at work the next day. Only then did the Air Force order parachutes for its T-3s. "It was as if the Air Force held a gun to my son's head and pulled the trigger," Dostal says. "This should have been a safe, learning environment instead of something thought up by some hotdogging general...
...know about." More than half the instructor pilots, busy trying to teach others to fly, had "generalized anger" about the T-3, an Air Force psychologist reported. And the cadets were uneasy too. "With two accidents in two years, I'm not entirely sure it's completely safe," Cadet Daniel Ronneberg told investigators. In the wake of the accident, the Air Force barred cadets from practicing forced landings. But two days after the second crash, the T-3s were ordered back into...
...months, the planes were ordered back into the air. The Air Force finally grounded the T-3s last July 25 after an engine once again stopped in midair and neither the cadet nor the instructor could restart it. Luckily, the plane was over the academy runway and landed safely. "We want an effective flight-screening program, but a safe one," says General Lloyd Newton, head of the service's Air Education and Training Command in San Antonio, Texas, who ordered the grounding. "We've certainly bumped into some rough spots with this aircraft, but that doesn't mean...
...world waits for the region to stabilize, global investors continue their search for a safe place to park assets. A favorite haven: American Treasury securities. So popular are long-term U.S. issues that although their yields have dropped nearly a full percentage point over the past 12 months, they still attract plenty of buyers. Now that's popularity...
...where the slaughter took place. "We came back because this is where we're from," said survivor Diego Perez, 32, blinking back tears as he recalled how his father, brother and aunt were killed in cold blood in front of him that day. "But it's hard to feel safe here." In fact, even as government soldiers blanketed the region near Acteal, some 5,000 frightened peasants clogged the Chiapas roads seeking refuge in larger towns...