Word: twa
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What emerged instead was a fearsome slew of questions born of other disasters. As the slow search for debris, bodies and the telltale "black boxes" proceeded--a ritual so morbidly familiar from the TWA Flight 800 crash two years ago--speculation reached for existing paradigms that would explain the fate of a plane belonging to an airline of sterling reputation. What is known of the cockpit's communications with air-traffic controllers appears to rule out terrorism. But not the terror of mechanical failure. And so the questions were asked. Was it a problem akin to what most probably destroyed...
...crashes. "There have been fleetwide problems in wiring. If I were an investigator, I'd be looking for fire in the wiring bundle, which spread to the cockpit or to a critical flight control." Such speculation is perhaps inspired by the conclusion of the investigation into the crash of TWA 800 near Long Island on July 17, 1996. That disaster's likely cause: exhaust heat from the Boeing 747's air conditioners transformed its fuel into a hot vapor so combustible that a mere spark, possibly from a frayed wire, touched off the disaster...
...large majority of terrorists who carried out operations--those who bombed the U.S. embassy in Beirut, American peacekeepers in Lebanon, U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, Pan Am 103; those who hijacked TWA 847 and shot up the Rome and Vienna airports--have never been caught or punished. Countries long deemed the fountainheads of terrorism, like Iran, Syria and Sudan, have never felt the sting of U.S. retaliation. Even so, as the Administration dispatched its teams of investigators to Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Berger vowed that the U.S. would succeed. Said he: "Our strongest weapon is our persistence...
...MOON--ON TWA...
...commentary on Disney's tomorrowland [SPECTATOR, May 25], Bruce Handy recalled Walt Disney's vision of a TWA rocket to the moon and said that even if TWA did fly to the moon, no one would go because the service wouldn't be very good. Handy obviously hasn't flown TWA lately. In May we won the J.D. Power & Associates award as the No. 1 domestic airline for customer satisfaction for flights over 500 miles. This isn't just an industry-insider accolade; it comes from our regular customers. We're sure that anyone who wants to take the longest...