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When the tail fin of a seemingly fine aircraft rips away on a clear morning, as it did in the Nov. 12 crash of American Airlines Flight 587, you'd think blame might lie with how the plane was built. New evidence, however, suggests a problem may also have been in how it was flown. According to a blunt 1997 letter obtained by TIME, safety officers from Boeing and Airbus, the plane's builders, had warned American that its pilot training relied too much on the rudder to recover in turbulent situations, which can "lead to structural loads that exceed...
...Hotard, a spokesman for American, says the carrier reworked its pilot-training program in 1999 to de-emphasize use of the rudder and that both pilots on Flight 587 would have received the updated training. Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Board continues to investigate all possible causes of the crash. The NTSB has asked NASA to help it analyze the tail fin, which was made of composite materials, in its effort to determine whether some structural flaw in the plane was responsible for the still mystifying crash...
...Yesterday Joe Bonamassa In 1990, when blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan died prematurely in a helicopter crash at the age of 35, some say that a little bit of the blues died with him. In his wake, many have tried to cultivate his raw electric sound, and innumerable blues guitarists have since cited Vaughan as a primary musical influence, Joe Bonamassa simply adds to the litany of names. What Bonamassa, with his album A New Day Yesterday, also adds is confusion. Modern blues has always been difficult to define, and this, his first solo outing, defies strict categorization even more...
...death. Farley also interviewed Aaliyah's celebrity pals and admirers, including her producers Missy Elliot and Timbaland, vocalist Beyonce Knowles and singer-songwriter Alicia Keyes. In addition, 'Aaliyah' features new information about the airplane disaster that claimed Aaliyah's life, including interviews with the only known witness to the crash and official investigators...
...would have said that the U.S. would have bottomed by the end of December. But Sept. 11 has compressed into a short period of time things that would have taken months to happen. It compressed monetary policy and corporate restructuring. It quickened the blowout in markets and catalyzed the crash in consumer sentiment. So rather than a long and frustrating U-shaped bottom, we're getting a jolting V. In Japan, which has no margin to absorb shocks, the V will be particularly sharp going down. China will stand out like a beacon of light in Asia as its economy...