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...distract the populace from such hardships, the regime has jingoistically renewed the ancient feud with Turkey. The Cyprus dispute has been revived, and there is a new argument over Turkish rights to drill for oil in the Aegean. Relations with the U.S. are also clouded. Last year, aware that the mood of the U.S. Congress was to cut off the 1973 grant of $15 million in military aid, the Greek government on its own eliminated it. Junta leaders, who have given up their American limousines in favor of Mercedes-Benzes, have blocked the U.S. Navy's plans to home...
After weeks of investigation, French and U.S. officials believe that they have pinned down the cause of history's worst air disaster: the March 3 crash of a Turkish Airlines DC-10 just outside Paris that killed 346 people. An improperly sealed rear cargo door burst open in midair, and the loss of pressure in the cargo hold caused the plane's still-pressurized passenger cabin to buckle downward into the cargo compartment (see diagram). Passengers began spilling out of the plane, control cables to the rudder and stabilizers were fouled, and the plane crashed into a forest...
...however, talked the FAA out of issuing the directive. Instead, the company was permitted to send out its own "service bulletin" recommending some less fundamental changes than the NTSB wanted. McDonnell Douglas was supposed to modify the doors of planes still on its assembly line, as the ill-fated Turkish Airlines DC-10 then was. Three inspectors signed records indicating that the modification was made on that plane-but Douglas Division President John Brizendine conceded last week that it was not. Why not? "We do not yet have an explanation," he said...
...relatively new aircraft. Thirty-one airlines now fly a total of 128 DC-10s; passengers praise the craft as spacious and quiet, and the FAA says that they are all safe (the agency finally issued its airworthiness directive about cargo doors on March 6, three days after the Turkish Airlines disaster...
...support plate on the door, installing a window in the door so that a ground-crew member could tell if the latch hooks were properly engaged and posting locking instructions clearly in English. Tragically, as French investigators discovered last week, the ground crewman who sealed the door on the Turkish Airlines craft could not read...