Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ironic that when the United States is in a financial state reminiscent of that of the pre-Depression era, the government ends a restriction designed to prevent an economic crash? The fact that our economy is increasingly volatile, yet our government has decided to regulate the economy less is ominous...
...second black box from the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 could prove the most important. Investigators at the National Transportation Safety Board lab in Washington are examining the cockpit voice recorder, recovered late Saturday evening. The recorder only contains 30 minutes of cockpit conversations before it starts taping over itself, but that should be enough to tell the story. It was less than 40 minutes into its New York City to Cairo run when the Boeing 767-300 ER dropped from 33,000 to 16,700 ft. in less than 40 seconds, paused, quickly climbed upwards for more than...
...data recorder reveals that the doomed plane's initial descent was a controlled maneuver by the pilot rather than a precipitous plunge, and that the Boeing 767's thrust reversers had not deployed in mid-flight, ruling out a hypothesis popular in media coverage immediately after the Halloween night crash. The big question, of course, is what prompted the pilot, eight seconds after the autopilot disconnected, to begin what appears to have been an emergency descent that later turned into a hellish plunge at a speed greater than that which the aircraft was designed for. The flight data recovered indicates...
...Disposing of the head of the ancien régime has become something of a tradition in Pakistani politics: General Zia-ul-Haq had Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanged after taking power in a 1977 coup; Bhutto's daughter, Benazir, didn't have to bother since it was the plane crash that killed General Zia that allowed her to come to power in 1988. Then, Nawaz Sharif put Benazir out of action with a slew of corruption charges against her and her family. And now it's Nawaz's turn...
...offer antihacker policies to small companies. For $1,500 a year, INSUREtrust.com covers up to $5 million for hacker-induced losses, including third-party lawsuits. Similar policies are offered by Evanston Insurance Co. and Lloyd's of London. Alas, none of these policies will bail you out when you crash your own system...