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...Tokyo, FAA officials, along with other U.S. experts, have gathered to assist in the investigation of the Aug. 12 crash of Japan Air Lines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 similar to many flown by U.S. carriers. A 60-page preliminary report released last week by Japan's Transport Ministry provided a dramatic transcript of voice recordings made during the doomed 45-minute flight of JAL 123. The report, however, failed to establish the cause of "the unusual impact" that crippled the vertical stabilizer and caused the plane to crash into a remote mountainside, killing 520 of the 524 people aboard...
...soon they were on their way back to a schoolyard in an Amal-controlled neighborhood in Beirut. Waiting for them were at least ten Red Cross vehicles that would take them to Damascus, where a U.S. Air Force C-141 StarLifter transport was ready to fly them to West Germany and freedom after 17 days of the televised Terrorist Suspense Spectacular...
Either way, security, or the lack of it, at the Athens airport has long been a concern. "There is no question that it has the weakest security of any major West European airport," says David Kyd of the International Air Transport Association. As a result, since 1982 several airlines, including TWA, have had their own supplemental screening systems. Four times during the past five years IATA officials have visited Athens to plead with the government to improve the situation. Greek officials claim they are scapegoats for U.S. frustration. Protests Transportation Minister Evangelos Kouloumbis: "The security is just as good...
...crashed, and a time-release bomb might have been designed to go off during the stop at London, where there is a large international press corps. The motives for the explosion in Japan were more mysterious; again, no one immediately claimed responsibility. As this week began, the International Air Transport Association called an emergency meeting in Montreal. Meanwhile, the international police organization Interpol was reportedly investigating both disasters and possible links between them...
...concrete strength to the Soviets, on the grounds that the equipment could be used to help harden missile silos. Since 1981 the Customs Service's Operation Exodus has stopped at the docks some 4,000 illegal shipments abroad, including crates destined for the Soviet Union full of C-130 transport aircraft parts and satellite scanners. "The Russians are sweating," declares Customs Service Commissioner William von Raab. "They used to be able to carry off all our technology by the truckload. Now we're making them pay more and take longer...