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...45° slope, and there was no way for even a chopper to land safely in the dark. Expecting no survivors, the searchers spent the rainy night setting up a base in the mountain village of Uenomura, 42 miles from the crash site. Area firemen and Japan's Ministry of Transport also mobilized searchers. But the narrow, serpentine roads and trails winding up from the villages in the valley ended far below the wreckage high on the mountain. Nonetheless, some rescuers set out on foot during the night...
...exhibited great courage and skill in trying to keep it sea flying," he said. But the odds loose," a United Air Lines pilot said. But why did so much of the tail break away in the air? That mystery was being probed by investigators from the Japanese Ministry of Transport as well as an advisory team from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and a group of experts from the Boeing Co. in Seattle. Initial speculation that the rear cabin door, mentioned by the crew over the radio, may have broken loose and struck the tail above it was abandoned...
...week went on, the experts' suspicions were also directed at the aircraft's rear bulkhead, an aluminum-alloy partition that separates the pressurized cabin from the non pressurized tail assembly. Hiroshi Fujiwara, deputy investigator for the Ministry of Transport, said that the bulkhead was found at the crash site and that it had been "peeled like a tangerine." It was possible, he said, that if the partition had cracked in flight, the air rushing from the cabin could have had enough force to dislodge the hollow tail fin. American experts theorized that the large number of takeoffs and landings, each...
...industry, which will spend $6.8 billion more on jet fuel this year than last year's $21.4 billion. Since 2001, prices have increased 91%. "Without the doubling of oil prices over the last three years, the industry would not be in the economic crisis we find ourselves," Air Transport Association president James May told Congress last month. "And the future doesn't look any brighter...
Although the report refers to shuttle buses running between the Cambridge and Allston campuses, Kathy Spiegelman, Harvard’s top planner, said that the mode of transit the College will use to transport students has not been decided...