Word: usair
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...slow the plane's movement, may have been set off without a command from the cockpit. That action could have inappropriately reversed the thrust of the engines, causing the plane to roll off into a dive. The actuators are normally deployed to slow a plane down only after landing. USAir records show a flight crew reported problems with the plane's reverse thrust two and a half months earlier...
Committee members include: Chair of the IOP Senior Advisory Committee Ron Brown, U.S. secretary of commerce: Kennedy School graduate Sheila Burke, chief of staff to Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan): former IOP Fellow Nancy Risque Rohrbach, senior vice-president of USAir, Inc.; Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel; Shirley Williams, public service professor electoral politics at the Kennedy School; and former IOP Fellow Michael woo, former mayor of Los Angeles...
...USAir Flight 1016, carrying 55 people, crashed early Saturday evening while trying to land at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in a storm. At least 18 people were confirmed dead, and witnesses reported numerous injuries. The DC-9 jet, en route from Columbia, S.C., struck trees and telephone poles before hitting a house...
...minutes before impact, the two pilots of a USAir jet that crashed Saturday in Charlotte, N.C., were warned of dangerous wind shear, federal investigators say. The National Transportation Safety Board unearthed that and other details in a search for why the DC-9 went down with 57 people on board, killing 37. The NTSB, which hasgathered testimony from five surviving flight crew members, planned to release more specifics this evening.parpar
...wanted to fly USAir home for Thanksgiving. But your roommate was trying to accumulate frequent flyer miles on Delta...