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...suspicious pilot had personally searched the two men before the takeoff from Amsterdam, but once the Pan American 747 was aloft they pulled pistols from crotch holsters and announced that they were hijacking the plane on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They ordered the plane to Cairo and eventually blew it up. That was in September 1970. While worrying about the series of Arab hijackings, Pan American also had a more mundane problem: Who was going to pay for its $24,288,759 plane? Was the 747 covered by the regular "all-risk" insurance issued...
...never been able to feel anything more positive than impatience for Berger's interminable Reinhardt trilogy, a thousand-page mope about the flounderings of a fat loser. The impatience is not a bit dispelled by Regiment of Women. Berger's latest book is either a grossly awkward takeoff on the excesses of Women's Lib or a blundering satire about the way men treat women. The fact that a careful observer cannot decide which is one indication of what is wrong with the kind of novel Berger has written...
...body jet for short-to medium-range hauls. The 300-passenger A-300B airbus, which is being built by a five-nation European consortium, will be the first such plane on the market; it is scheduled for commercial service next March. The other type is a STOL (for short takeoff and landing) plane for brief hops between urban airports. France's Dassault-Brequet Mercure craft should be providing STOL-type service by year's end, and no U.S.-built STOL will be available anywhere near then. Says Karl G. Harr Jr., president of the Aerospace Industries Assoc...
...issued just days earlier by the British Airline Pilots Association. The 150-page report blames six of the ten major crashes of British airlines between 1966 and 1970 on nothing more complicated than pilot fatigue. It noted that all six crashes, in which 257 lives were lost, occurred during takeoff and landing, "when the work load is highest and fatigue at its worst." In five of the accidents, "the crew apparently flew a fully serviceable aircraft into the ground...
Large "phasers" (a takeoff on laser) protect the ship from outside attack, and each crew member carries a smaller phaser for self-defense purposes. Other features of the ship include a space transporter that disassembles the atoms of a person on board ship and reassembles them at the desired location in a process called "beaming...