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Around small cardboard signs reading "Right Wing," "Left Wing" and "Tail," a group of purposeful experts are arranging what is left of the American Airlines' Boeing 707 that crashed on take-off into Jamaica Bay, killing all 95 aboard (TIME. March...
...American Airlines jet on take-off has dropped from the radar departure scope." Van Epps's first move was to call police to guard the wreckage from ghoulish souvenir hunters. Minutes later, he was over the wreck in a helicopter. By midafternoon, a specialist team from Washington had arrived to help, and a full-scale investigation was well under...
...plane, or the jet may have been climbing too steeply to make a safe turn. Said Halaby: "It appears to have been some kind of mechanical failure in some part of the control system." Pilots theorized that the strict antinoise laws that force them to ascend rapidly after take-off and make perilous low-level maneuvers over heavily populated areas might have caused the crash of the huge jet. The Air Line Pilots Association has long argued that noise-abatement regulations were endangering flight safety...
...control through space, Glenn spent hours spinning giddily in the fiendishly contrived "Mastif" (multiple axis space test inertia facility) that simultaneously rotated him in three directions, like a carnival ride gone amok. Time and again he rode the giant centrifuge that multiplied gravitational pull to simulate the strains of take-off and landing. Despite his years, Glenn showed the least heart fluctuation of any astronaut. (At lift-off last week, Glenn's pulse rate was a relatively placid no beats per minute. Shepard's rate was 139 and Grissom's was 170 during their lift-offs. All three men normally...
...diver quickly recovered. Then Vice President Lyndon Johnson flew in from Washington to escort Glenn back to the overwhelming welcome at Cape Canaveral. "In my country," said Johnson, on the flight up to Florida, "we'd say you're pretty tall cotton." Glenn grinned. "Were you very tense at take-off?" asked the Vice President. "I imagine I was," murmured Glenn. Said Johnson: "You were about as near the Lord's end as a person ever...