Word: reached
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...scheduled five-hour flight from Medellin, Colombia, to New York. Bad weather had stalled 248 other planes heading for Kennedy that day; in the two hours before the Avianca disaster, 33 pilots chose to land at other airports. The Avianca crew reported it did not have enough fuel to reach its designated alternate, Boston. Apparently because of high winds and low clouds, the plane missed its first landing attempt at Kennedy. It crashed on its second approach when all four engines failed, almost certainly for lack of fuel...
Human error is likely to be cited when investigators complete their probe of the accident. They must determine if enough fuel was loaded in Colombia in the first place. Under international regulations an airliner must carry enough fuel to reach its destination as well as its assigned alternate, plus enough extra to handle at least 45 minutes of delays...
...throwing off the engineer's calculations, though not the gauges. Another source of trouble could have been the 707's abrupt climb after the aborted landing. Aviation experts say this could have sloshed what remained of the fuel to the back of the tanks, where the fuel pumps cannot reach...
...uncertain if he understood its extent. Investigators are focusing on whether the crew adequately conveyed its concerns to regional air controllers and whether these controllers passed the information on to the local controllers. Tapes reveal that the Avianca crew informed the regional center that its fuel was insufficient to reach Boston, but this information apparently was not relayed in the "hand-off" between controllers. Still, the pilot did not object when the plane was then placed on a routine approach to Kennedy that, because of heavy traffic, took 38 minutes...
...people from the Orthodox B'nai Akiva movement who are singing and dancing their welcome. Then, in the coming days, in an exercise they are only too familiar with from life in the Soviet Union, the newcomers form long lines outside the office of the Absorption Ministry. When they reach the heads of the queues, they receive instructions on how to sign up for a rent allowance, where to send their children to school and other quotidian details...