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National Transportation Safety Board officials have ruled out "wind shear" as a factor in the incident. Instead, they are looking into possible mechanical failure or crew error. It has been established that the automatic pilot system was in operation while the plane cruised at 41,000 ft. This mechanism keeps aircraft on a safe course at high altitudes, where the human eye cannot judge the angle of flight. But while a plane is operating under the system, even small variations in speed or flight angle can cause a stall or nose dive. A key question is whether Ming overrode...
...high school teacher in Plymouth, Minn., ran from the wreckage with his clothes afire. He suffered burns over 90% of his body. The three were the only survivors. Sixty-eight died, making it the worst U.S. air tragedy since 1982, when a Boeing 727 was caught in a wind shear in New Orleans, killing 153 people...
...most advanced device that Connery uses is a regular motorcycle, touched up to shear cars and jump a little farther. Late in the movie, Bond flies on a U.S. Navy self-powered one-man flying object from a submarine near Largo's boat. But that manuever is so broadly done that it comes off as a spoof on the other production company...
...Westerner fidgets whenever he is asked to be impressed by nothingness. A Japanese is a good deal more at home with the native mysteries. But Japan almost always involves a certain intellectual wind shear. What one sees when contemplating those islands often depends upon the culture of the beholder...
...death toll had reached 153. It was the second worst U.S. air accident, exceeded only by the crash of an American Airlines DC-10 in Chicago three years ago, which killed 274. The search for the cause of the New Orleans disaster centered on the weather. Lightning, wind shear and "downburst," a phenomenon in which a huge column of air suddenly surges toward earth from thunderclouds at high velocity, were the prime suspects. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Sam Allis and B.J. Phillips/New Orleans