Word: usair
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...ideal flying weather. The twilight skies were clear, with only a few small clouds, and winds were a negligible 7 m.p.h. USAir Flight 427 was nearing Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after an uneventful flight from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Right around 7 p.m. the pilot radioed approach control at Pittsburgh International Airport, set in heavily wooded, lightly populated hills 12 miles northwest of the Golden Triangle, that he was "in range," about to ask for landing clearance...
...explode it did, with such hellish force as to eliminate almost immediately all hope that any of the 132 people aboard -- five crew, 127 passengers -- could have lived. Except for the tail, USAir 427 shattered into so many pieces that the twisted and burned shards of metal were unrecognizable as airplane wreckage...
Such ghastly scenes raise again questions the U.S. had almost forgotten: Can air travel maintain its recent glowing safety record? Or are financially troubled airlines -- USAir in particular -- skimping dangerously on maintenance and crew training to cut losses? It is difficult to answer without some idea of what caused the crash of USAir 427, and there were few early clues. Though the black box of voice recordings from the crew was recovered, it revealed only uninformative cries of "Oh, God" and "Oh, s---" and the words "traffic emergency" followed by a scream. "We're all very much at a loss...
...separate technological glitches plagued the Windy City today, paralyzing its airport (the world's largest) and shutting down the commodities exchange for a couple of hours. The first was caused by a power outage, and the second was related to a computer malfunction.WHAT CAUSED THE USAIR CRASH? Scratch those theories, offered just yesterday, about what caused the USAir crash. Having analyzed new evidence, National Transportation Safety Board investigators say they are back to square one in the search -- and they aren't ruling out anything...
Federal investigators have identified three possible reasons for the crash of USAir Flight 427 near Pittsburgh last Thursday, in which 132 people died. In addition to the mid-air deployment of thrust reversers, officials of the National Transportation Safety Board said that it was possible that the right engine came loose or that brakes were unevenly deployed...