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...PAULO, Brazil: A Brazilian domestic jetliner crashed shortly after takeoff today, killing at least 95, Brazil's Globo TV network reported. The plane, a Fokker-100 belonging to TAM regional airlines, took off at 5:45 EST this morning and, according to Globo, dipped right sharply, struck an apartment building and eight houses and burst into flames. As live TV coverage showed a row of bodies covered with black plastic on the sidewalk and firemen sprayed smoking bits of the airplane with hoses, the search for casualties amid the rubble on the ground continued. The crash occurred about one mile...
Catastrophes like this will continue to happen no matter how stringent the security measures are. Anyone can be the next victim. So just pray before takeoff and touchdown that everyone reaches his or her destination safely. That's all we people can do. ARSHAD ALTAF Karachi Via E-mail...
...AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 191. Crashed when one of its three engines fell to the ground just after takeoff from Chicago on May 25, 1979; 275 people killed...
...NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 255. Crashed on takeoff from Detroit on Aug. 16, 1987; 156 killed...
...event leaves the rest of us in a state of unease and vulnerability. The flight attendant still instructs us to fasten our seat belts and to bring our seat backs and tray tables to an upright position before takeoff--all the irritating in-flight punctilio, with its bloodless ritual language--but as we strap ourselves in, our minds are projecting fireballs, and calculating odds, and trying to calm themselves more urgently than before. The worst part of jet travel is our eggs-in-a-carton passivity: inert flesh encapsulated for a leap of faith that may be (we tell ourselves...