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...Marine investigation into the accident, obtained by TIME, points to an apparent culprit. According to a lengthy list of snafus detailed in the official probe, the Marines accuse Bell of allowing the helicopter to take off even though the Pentagon had ordered it grounded because of five urgent safety problems. Two of the five requested fixes were designed to prevent a loss of engine power, which investigators for the families believe caused the crash. The report concluded that the Cobra should never have taken off until these and other repairs had been made. Bell has shed little light...
...eBay's online auctions for more than five hours Monday, making it impossible to post bids or new auction items from roughly 8:30 a.m. EDT to 2 p.m. EDT. The outage affected nearly two million on-going auctions, and is just the latest in a string of service snafus that have marked the length of eBay's hyper-growth...
...first tractor-trailer load of nuclear garbage finally rumbled up to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in the New Mexico desert last week. Protests, lawsuits and bureaucratic snafus had delayed for 11 years the opening of the nation's first permanent deep-rock nuclear repository and turned the project into a black hole of costs: the $1 billion price tag eventually got to $19 billion. Even so, the plant will operate at barely 40% of capacity until state regulators grant certification. "Radioactive wastes will be a lot safer here than sitting around at old bomb plants," said ROBERT NEILL, director...
...snapped up by Eisner back in 1995, has suffered its own turmoil and a ratings free fall (this past season brought the network the indignity of finishing behind Fox in the 18-to-49 demographic). The launch of Disney's cruise line has been delayed by shipyard snafus...
...Walt Disney Co. is also taking to sea, a move that both scares and encourages this $7.5 billion industry. Disney is launching a pair of $370 million ships that will each carry 1,760 passengers when the vessels arrive later this year. (Construction snafus have delayed delivery of the first, the Disney Magic, from March to July.) Backed by a $130 million marketing budget, these floating Mouse traps will offer three- and four-day excursions as part of Disney World vacations. The good news is that Disney's money will sell the industry to a new generation of travelers...