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Fire Retardant On Feb. 1, 1991, USAir Flight 1493 crashed into another aircraft while landing at Los Angeles International Airport. After surviving the impact, 20 passengers and two crew members died as a result of smoke inhalation as they waited to leave at the overwing exit. During the 1980s, the FAA instituted various measures that demanded aircrafts upgrade the flammability standards of materials on board. The USAir aircraft was built before the effective date of those requirements and had not yet been modernized. All aircraft in the U.S. are now compliant. The requirements were strengthened in 1991, when...
...some 20 years ago. Pittsburgh never had a housing boom. How could it, when a quarter of the population evaporated when the jobs did? Pittsburgh's finances were so awful that it became a virtual ward of the state in 2003. Is your burg afraid of losing airline service? USAir's business crashed here in 2002. The spacious airport is half empty on a Sunday...
...years since the Dallas crash, other wind-shear accidents have cost passenger lives. Two unsolved crashes in Pennsylvania and North Carolina have been tentatively attributed to wind shear that might have been avoided with Doppler radar. After a USAir flight crashed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in July 1994, the NTSB said the delay in installing the radar had cost the lives of 37 onboard. Charlotte was supposed to get the radar system in early 1993. As an airport in the South (where wind shear is particularly common), it was No. 5 on the FAA list. But the inevitable delays...
...airline, begins service linking more than a dozen cities on Jetstar, going head to head with Virgin Blue. In the U.S., veteran no-frills flyer Southwest Airlines will take on U.S. Airways in Philadelphia. Southwest will offer $198 round-trip fares to cities like Phoenix, Ariz., and Las Vegas; USAir vows to make it a nasty fight. --By Barbara Kiviat...
...edge of the Roswell, N.M., airport, we were given a preflight briefing. Even the veteran pilots were getting butterflies as they listened to the flight plan. Knotts explained the sequence of maneuvers we would fly to re-create such real-life accident scenarios as the rudder failure of USAir Flight 427 near Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1994 and a hydraulic failure that resulted in the cartwheeling crash of United Airlines Flight...