Word: twa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent Harvard graduate who played hockey for the Crimson was killed when TWA Flight 800 exploded over New York...
...they work all night at his house on an M.I.T. graduation speech, surrounded by note cards and bits of paper stuck on easels. "For him it's like golf. He loves it!" concludes an aide. But beneath this wonkish exterior, the President has found a smart politico. After the TWA 800 crash, Clinton named Gore head of a task force on airline safety--a delicate job, since the report he produces must be rigorous without implying that the President flubbed the issue earlier. Gore is also the favorite mouthpiece for Clinton's rapid-response team, "prebutting" Bob Dole before...
Your article on the search for aircraft sabotage [AFTERMATH: FLIGHT 800 CRASH, Aug. 5] included a reference to the May 9, 1976, crash near Madrid of an Iranian air force plane that was the same model as TWA Flight 800. You mistakenly said this leased aircraft was a Continental Airlines Boeing 747-100. The aircraft in question was never in Continental's fleet. It was leased to the prerevolutionary Iranian air force by another U.S. air carrier. NED WALKER, Vice President for Corporate Communications Continental Airlines Houston...
...much as Americans desire instant gratification, officials handling the investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800 see no reason to satisfy that craving. Confirming last week the discovery of microscopic traces of PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, on a piece of the plane's midsection, investigators moved one step closer to declaring that a bomb or a missile brought down the aircraft. But they caution that there are still many steps to go. A senior Justice Department official told TIME that the PETN, which is used in plastic explosives, is so far the only piece of forensic evidence the investigators...
...crash, victims' families will be unable to collect more than the $75,000 maximum liability permitted under Warsaw Convention rules governing air travel. A finding of mechanical failure would open the way to much larger settlements, as would solid evidence of a bombing--if lawyers can then prove that TWA's security measures were lax. The 225 families that settled with Pan Am over the Lockerbie disaster, for example, collected some $500 million with such a claim. In this case, as in the Pan Am case, it is increasingly clear that any such resolution will be a long time coming...