Word: tower
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WASHINGTON: The focus of the investigation into Korean Air Flight 801's demise is shifting from the control tower to the cockpit. TIME's Elaine Shannon says investigators probing the deadly crash in Guam are looking at whether the crew of the Boeing 747 was unfamiliar with the route normally taken by an Airbus, which could have caused confusion leading to the disaster...
...Though federal investigators will probe every angle, Shannon reports there is more focus on the possibility of human error in the air rather than on the ground, where the Guam airport control tower is staffed by private contractors instead of government employees. Shannon says that's not a big issue, because such arrangements have existed for decades at light-traffic airports...
Everywhere, the decadent scent of Collapsed Empire is heavy--and panting adoration of America is its choices perfume. On American Election Day last November, Clinton's victory was hailed with vicarious, supplicant glee by flying the American flag on the college tower. The most memorable college anecdote is the mind-numbingly dull story of how Clinton visited the college for a walkabout ("three indentical helicopters landed in Christ Church Meadwo--and then he shook all our hands...
...WATCH TOWER: Parisian days and nights fly by on a 50-ton, 1,342-light sign at the second level of Monsieur Eiffel's iron landmark...
...Anime Crash has landed," reads the banner outside an emporium of Asian pop culture that houses Jackie Chan movies, original animation cells, models and toys. "Anime," Japanese for "animation," opened June 8 on Mt. Auburn, near Tower Records...