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...sharp as thumbtacks, dug at his eyes. "I found myself at 13,000 feet in a terrible position," Bonatti said later. His face was rimmed with ice, and he was in excruciating pain. "But we all three had to remain absolutely immobile, because the slightest movement could have been fatal...
...planes passed, they were 1,200-1,700 ft. apart vertically, three to four miles laterally, a safe distance on anybody's scope. Yet distances can be deceptive in the air, and the investigators recognized the possibility that Carson might have swung his ship into a fatal fall because he believed a mid-air crash was imminent. The piston-driven plane was not equipped with the all but indestructible flight recorder, which indicates every yaw, pitch and twitch of the controls on U.S. jet airliners, and which probably would bear evidence of the cause of such an accident...
...many fatal deficiencies elude the producers? Asking himself, David Susskind found it all "unanswerable." "I have never been so shocked, so surprised in my life. What happened to my taste? Could I be this wrong?" He could...
Sigauke, director of FRELIMO activities inside Mozambique, told a harrowing story of more than two years confinement in Portuguese prisons before he escaped from the country last July. Forced to watch the fatal beating of other prisoners, Sigauke himself spent a month in hospital as a result of torture from security police...
...downtown and airport, airport and airport, and on short suburban runs, but the lines are hampered by erratic schedules, the high cost of operation and passenger fears about safety that are hard to allay. (In the past decade, helicopter lines have carried 3,130,000 passengers with only two fatal crashes.) Every time a helicopter passenger pays $8 for a ride, taxpayers must chip in another $8 to enable him to make the trip. Still, as helicopter technology has advanced, the taxi lines have managed to cut per-seat costs from $3.68 per mile...