Word: tower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhine River and all but 61 people on Pan Am's Clipper Victor. Last week the Spanish government released the findings of an 18-month investigation of the crash. The verdict: KLM Captain Jacob Veldhuizen Van Zanten's decision to start his takeoff run without tower clearance was the "fundamental cause" of the accident...
...weather was dismal in Tenerife that day, with low-scudding clouds and fog sharply reducing visibility. From the western end of the strip, shrouded from the view of both the control tower and the KLM crew, Pan Am Captain Victor Grubbs was nosing his 747 through the mist toward the Dutch plane. Twice Grubbs radioed the tower, on a frequency shared by KLM, that he was still on the runway...
Before the tower had received those messages, KLM's Veldhuizen told his copilot to ask for takeoff clearance. Suddenly and inexplicably, Veldhuizen opened the throttles. Flustered, the copilot radioed the tower: "We are now at takeoff." Since clearance had not been given, the tower assumed that KLM was simply at takeoff position and replied, "Standby ... I will call you." That order coincided with a Pan Am message that the Clipper was still taxiing on the runway, but the information was garbled by an unexplained whistling sound...
Both candidates are staunch advocates of the state's oil and gas interests. Krueger first gained notoriety when, as a freshman representative, he almost pushed a deregulation bill through the House. Bumperstickers which read "Krueger of Texaco" have surfaced recently, parodying his campaign slogan, "Krueger of Texas." And what Tower lacks in flair as a champion of industry, he makes up in consistency...
...MOST RECENT POLL shows Krueger with a three-point lead over Tower, but 17 per cent of the voters are still undecided. Tower, with a two-to-one fundraising advantage, will have an edge in the last weeks of the campaign as he launches a media blitz. But Krueger, who has been campaigning like a whirling dervish since last year, might just pull out a victory. Even if he does, the nation is unlikely to see any substantial change in Texas's leadership on economic issues. And Lone Star liberals will still be waiting for the knight on a white...