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Their illicit cargo-ten tons of marijuana, worth $22 million in street sales -apparently saved three of the four smugglers. On impact the burlap bags slammed forward into the cockpit, broke open and literally popped the surviving crew members out of the plane as it disintegrated and burned. Said a Union Parish sheriffs deputy: "Those guys are lucky to be alive, and thanks to the pot they are. But they're sure going to get to know our jail real well." They face up to ten years for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. The fourth crew member...
Nearly everything that will qualify the planes to be called a new generation is hidden from view or discernible only by the expert eye. Some of the biggest improvements are in the cockpit. After takeoff, the flight can be fully automated, should the captain so choose. A computer back on the ground in the Airline Command Center will reckon the entire flight plan and feed the instructions for course headings, throttle settings, climbs, descents and the like into three smaller computers aboard the aircraft...
...plane started taxiing down the runway, McAward took a seat on the tobacco side of the SMOKING/NO SMOKING sign and asked a flight attendant to move the sign. No way, said the smokers already seated on that row. So McAward got up and headed for the cockpit. A flight attendant told him not to stand while the plane was moving down the runway, but McAward refused to take a violation of his rights sitting down...
Kaufman as a child may remind readers of the fugitive youth in Jerzy Kosinki's The Painted Bird. Kaufman the avenger is also reminiscent of Kosinski's Cockpit and Blind Date. But there is a crucial difference. Kosinski's fiction is cold, clinical, beyond ideaology or feeling. In the Eighth Sin, vengeance is passionate, even humane. Though the book's structure is somewhat programmatic. Kaufer, a senior editor of time, has given the familiar documentary evidence of the death camps and their aftermath a persuasive and moving life in fiction...
...Cypriot bomb squad expert came forward; Melling took him back to the cockpit. Mohammed and Hussein stood there warily, pistols cocked, hand grenades unpinned...