Word: twa
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...compete with tragedy. A President acting in his capacity as Minister-in-Chief during traumas like the anniversary of the Oklahoma bombing, the fatal crash of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's plane, the Olympic bombing and the TWA explosion, leaves no air time for the opposition. And just when it looked like Dole would get a bump out of the convention, he got hit by Edouard, Fran and Hortense and the President viewing the damage from Chopper...
With travelers already leery following the crashes of TWA Flight 800 and a ValuJet plane, the FAA has gone out of its way to show its safety-mindedness. The latest step: last week the agency ordered emergency inspections of Boeing's venerable 737 jets. Reason: tests detected that rudder power control units (PCUS) might jam when extremely hot hydraulic fluid reaches a very cold "slide" (it's like a valve), although such a jam has never been reported in some 69 million flights of 737s worldwide. The rudder affects a jet's orientation. Each of the 2,700 737s...
...despicable then perhaps excessive but also understandable. The Centennial Park bomb came only 10 days after the explosion of TWA Flight 800. Nobody knew whether it marked the beginning of a reign of domestic terror. The FBI was under tremendous pressure to solve the case almost instantaneously so that the Olympic Games' athletes and visitors would not be crippled by fear. But it is common knowledge in law enforcement that "the bigger the case, the lower the standard [of conduct]," says Tierney. "The pressure on the police, on prosecutors is overwhelming...
RESIGNING. JEFFREY H. ERICKSON, 51, CEO of Trans World Airlines, who received criticism for his company's handling of the crash of Flight 800. His announcement came hours after TWA reported a $14.3 million quarterly loss...
...LOUIS, MO: Surprising industry insiders, Trans World Airlines chief executive and president Jeffrey Erickson announced his resignation late Thursday, on the day the airline posted a $14.3 million quarterly loss linked to the July crash of TWA flight 800. The tragedy reversed the remarkable financial turnaround that was underway at the long-floundering company, which posted a 400-fold gain in its second-quarter earnings on July 17, the day of the crash. Erickson, 51, said he would step down in January. As investigators increasingly focus on possible mechanical failure as a leading theory for the crash, amid speculation, accurate...