Word: takeoffs
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...phone jangled again. This time it was a London colleague calling to report that the dollar's rally was gaining momentum. Holland, abandoning any hope of getting back to sleep, put on a robe and padded into his den, where his computer terminal graphically displayed the dollar's takeoff. "Holy smoke, something is happening!" the trader exclaimed before jumping into his clothes and hailing a cab for Wall Street. "They apparently mean business...
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board focused on the buildup of ice on the plane's wings while it waited 23 minutes between deicing and takeoff. Another possible factor: pilot inexperience. Copilot Lee Bruecher, 26, who was apparently at the craft's controls on takeoff, had only 36 1/2 hours of flight time on DC-9s. The veteran pilot, Captain Frank Zvonek, 43, had logged only 33 hours as a DC-9 captain...
...with the union, Continental executives have launched an all- out campaign to win back customers. The airline has begun keeping on call at the Newark, Denver and Houston airports "hot spares" -- fueled-up planes with standby crews ready to step in if another jet develops difficulties that prevent its takeoff. The airline is spending $60 million this year on employee training. Customers receive cash rebates of $10 to $50 for filling out "report cards" grading the carrier's performance. Capping these efforts is an advertising blitz featuring full-page confessionals in major publications. "We grew so fast that we made...
Such an oversight is almost unthinkable: a takeoff without extending the flaps, said Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Spokesman John Leyden, is like driving off in a car without closing the door -- and far more dangerous. Yet such a lapse, notes University of Michigan Aeronautic Engineer C. William Kauffman, "would explain some of the things that were observed -- the aircraft using a lot of runway, not climbing very high, stalling...
...blaming the flaps may be premature. The plane's computerized warning system never alerted the crew that the flaps were not extended. At week's end a co-pilot of a nearby Northwest jet who said he observed Flight 255's ill- fated takeoff insisted that the slats and flaps on the plane were in the correct position...