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...USAIR FLIGHT 427. Crashed as it was preparing to land in Pittsburgh on Sept. 8, 1994; 132 killed...
Executives at the upstarts cross their hearts and deny any intention of stealing business from the wary giants. "We're not pulling traffic away from anyone," says Mark Morro, chairman of Air 21, which last December began flying Fokker F.28 4000s, leased from USAir, out of Fresno. "We're bringing passengers back to the airport." Lewis Jordan, president of ValuJet, which bases its 47-plane fleet in Atlanta, says Delta, its looming neighbor at Hartsfield Airfield, has nothing to fear. "We stole people from their living rooms and automobiles," he insists, not from Delta flights. Maybe, but ValuJet earned...
More than a year after USAir Flight 427 plunged from the sky near Pittsburgh, killing all 132 people aboard, the National Tranportation Safety Board will stage tests that might explain what triggered the 6,000-ft. nose dive, TIME's Jerry Hannifin reports. (The first test was schedule for today at the FAA's Flight Technical Center near Atlantic City, but was delayed because of bad weather.) Hannifin says the NTSB, under considerable pressure to solve the mystery behind the worst air disaster since 1987, is exploring an aeronautical phenomenon called wake vortex. Under a long-suspected scenario, the Boeing...
...other obstacle, notes USAir pilot Philip Garland, is a lack of role models: "Many times on a flight, I'm not just the captain, I'm the only black on the plane. " Despite the inspiration of the Tuskegee airmen, the airline industry still has a long...
...found entrenched discrimination and ordered United to "make up for lost time" by hiring blacks at twice the percentage of applicants who are black. In other important lawsuits, American Airlines was forced to drop a 5-ft. 6-in. height requirement-which put female applicants at a disadvantage--and USAir agreed to eliminate hiring preferences for the relatives and friends of employees--since the employees were overwhelmingly white...