Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pilot brought the Boeing 747 back safely for an emergency landing, with at least 14 passengers injured. Two of the engines had failed, but it wasn't clear whether the failure was connected with the fuselage ripping open...
Federal aviation investigators had not determined the cause of the hole, but were leaning toward structural failure as the likeliest explanation. Initial reports from the pilot and some passengers indicated they had heard an explosion...
...high-tech answer for the problem of cultural illiteracy among American students. Beginning next month, his Knoxville-based Whittle Communications firm will beam Channel One, a slick news program for teenagers, directly into schools for a seven-week test period. Whittle has provided each of the six pilot schools with $50,000 worth of television sets and satellite equipment to use as they wish. The only requirement: each day students will have to watch a twelve-minute Channel One broadcast -- including two minutes...
Administrators at some pilot schools admit that the lure of free equipment influenced their decisions to air the program. But other officials insist that they chose Channel One primarily on its merits. "Some people assume we're mindless dolts and victims of rampant commercialism," says Thomas Sharkey, principal of Billerica Memorial High School in Billerica, Mass. "I consider this the best form of corporate-school partnership." David Bennett, superintendent of the St. Paul school district, cites lack of public funds as ; a key reason why schools would accept the offer...
...million pilot succeeds, Whittle will open Channel One to schools nationwide. He hopes to have signed up as many as 10,000 schools by 1990, giving the program an audience of up to 7 million. The estimated cost to Whittle Communications, half of which is owned by Time Inc., would be $100 million dollars. Already 70% of the pilot's ad time has been sold, with the rest likely to be gone by next month. While Whittle will not release sponsors' names, product categories include sneakers, food and toiletries. Whittle pledges there will be no ads for alcohol, tobacco...