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...flight in 10,000 strays 50 or more miles off course. In 90% of the cases, the deviation is attributed to pilot error. The INS computers are programmed by the crew at the start of the flight. The computers are fed the plane's latitude and longitude at takeoff and the coordinates of way points along the plane's scheduled route. On Flight 007, for example, the computers, made by Litton Industries at $100,000 apiece, were told that the plane should be at its fifth way point, Neeva, above the Aleutian Islands...
...then did the airliner stray so far off course? That remains a major mystery. The inertial-guidance systems have to be programmed by the crew before takeoff and after various checkpoints along the route are passed. Human error in programming, followed by inattention to course while flying on automatic pilot, is a conceivable possibility. The full explanation almost surely will never be known...
...University of Cairo unexpectedly asked Academic Dean Albert Carnesale for help in setting up a public policy curriculum. This fall, one of those professors will enroll at the K-School as a Mason fellow, Pyle said, adding, "This man's presence in the Mason fellow program will be the takeoff point for the development of a new curriculum in Egypt...
...profits evaporated. With the IBM-compatible Executive now due in November, the ever confident Osborne says, "It's such a fast-moving business that in two months you can be flying as high as ever." Others wonder whether Osborne can get up to takeoff speed again. Rumors have started that he is trying to sell his firm...
...Pentagon spokesman said that the VC-9C, parrying sophisticated communications equipment, was necessary because "the Secretary of Defense is in the national military command authority chain. As such he must be instantly contactable at all times." Half an hour before takeoff last Friday, the flight, which had attracted national press attention, was scrubbed. Pentagon officials said the press of business kept Weinberger grounded...