Word: twa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is one industry, and one company, that glows white hot with anger between its labor and management. United, Northwest, USAir, TWA and Continental are lined up with labor negotiations like so many jets waiting to take off from O'Hare. Does this mean a year of strikes? Not necessarily, but the situation at American is a sort of wind sock for the industry...
...their screens. Although the military says the pilots followed correct procedures, "The fighter pilots could simply have radioed the other guy for ID, but they didn't follow the normal procedure," says TIME's Edward Barnes. The close encounter has also renewed speculation about the still unsolved crash of TWA flight 800. Conspiracy buffs on the Internet were quick to point to the latest incident as evidence supporting their theory that a military screw-up caused the crash...
Richard Jewell was not the Atlanta bomber. The cause of the explosion of TWA Flight 800 was not determined. A senior executive at Texaco was found not to have referred to African-American employees as "niggers," as had been reported. The burning of black churches in the South was found not to have been the work of organized bigots, as had been reported. The arrest of a militia group in Montana did not end in a shoot...
...downing of TWA Flight 800 brought Americans monumental and collective grief, stopped the meaningless noise for a moment and reduced the isolation. On the beaches of Long Island, near where the plane plunged into the Atlantic, citizens from all backgrounds walked solemnly among the washed-up detritus of the crash--the serving trays, eyeglasses, baseball caps and sweaters--and would not swim in the sorrowful ocean...
...Pierre Salinger The veteran journalist announced in France last month that he had proof that TWA Flight 800 was accidentally shot down by a U.S. Navy missile. His proof turned out to be an elaborate Internet rumor. James Hall, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, chastised Salinger "for raising confusion in the minds of many people here and abroad...for causing consternation and pain to the families of the victims" and for promoting third-hand information "as some scoop of his." Talk about getting shot down...