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...Dallas on Aug. 2, 1985. In Detroit, Flight 255 had been rerouted to another runway to avoid a gust of wind from a distant thunderstorm. Still another hypothesis concerned the baggage loading: investigators examined the possibility that too much cargo may have been placed toward the rear of the aircraft, tipping the center of gravity aft and causing the plane to go out of control...
...extending the flaps, said Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Spokesman John Leyden, is like driving off in a car without closing the door -- and far more dangerous. Yet such a lapse, notes University of Michigan Aeronautic Engineer C. William Kauffman, "would explain some of the things that were observed -- the aircraft using a lot of runway, not climbing very high, stalling...
...secret Army still exists, but it seems quiescent for the moment. Most of Seaspray's aircraft have been parceled out to other units. The ISA is also still around; last year it had an agent under deep cover in Beirut, according to an Oliver North computer message inadvertently printed in the February Tower commission report...
...that a loose bolt had punched a hole in a 727's fuel tank, causing a leak. King says the hole was plugged with an unauthorized, quick-hardening plastic sealer so that the plane could depart. A supervisor concealed the improper patch job by not recording it in the aircraft's logbook. The hole was not correctly repaired with a metal plate until later that week...
...Christa-Karin Schumann, 52, an East German physician sentenced in 1979 to 15 years. In return, the East Germans got Manfred Rotsch, 63, formerly a chief engineer at West Germany's largest aerospace company. Rotsch was convicted last year of slipping Moscow weapons secrets, including plans of the Tornado aircraft. East Germany also released a West German counterintelligence officer serving a life sentence for espionage, and Bonn handed over two Communist agents described as "small fish...