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Around 2:30 p.m. Sunday, skydiver Alfred Peters, 51, jumped from a Cessna aircraft and accelerated to about 120 miles per hour when he struck the rear of Klein's single-engine Piper Cherokee PA28. Peters, who had not yet opened his parachute, apparently hit the plane with his ankle, sending it into a fatal tailspin...
...struck the vertical stabilizer in the rear of the aircraft causing it to go into a vertical tailspin from which it never recovered," Mary Culver, a spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration, said in a telephone interview yesterday...
...studying for a degree in business administration, but has held only one short-lived job in the past three years. Meanwhile her marriage has broken up under the emotional stress of prolonged unemployment -- not only for herself but also for her former husband, who was laid off by Hughes Aircraft the same year Kimberlin got riffed at Douglas. Says Kimberlin mildly: "I didn't expect this to go on so long...
...Maidel is still angry. After his job as a supervisor in the transportation department of the Long Beach, California, naval shipyards disappeared in 1989, he bypassed a chance for a secure civil service post because he trusted promises of higher pay and equal job stability from McDonnell Douglas. The aircraft builder's recruiters "wined us, they dined us, they had a big film presentation," Maidel fumes. "They really put on the dog that you were part of the company for no less than 10 years. Three years later, I'm standing on the sidewalk...
Washington -- After investing $42 million to integrate a long-range air- tracking radar system into its C-130 aircraft to help detect drug smugglers, the U.S. COAST GUARD concluded that the plane's $2.5 million annual maintenance and operational costs weren't worth it. So it decided to offer the plane to the drug-interdiction program at the Pentagon, the main agency charged with air and maritime drug detection. But because the Pentagon decided that "we already have better equipment," the plane was transferred to the Air Force to carry cargo...