Eastern pilot misses Beechcraft crash after watching another jet
In Atlanta at Hartsfield, an Eastern Airlines 727 struck a Beechcraft Air King after the Eastern pilot failed to see the smaller plane until impact. A Continental jet ahead had been cleared to land, and investigators questioned clearance timing and pilot awareness as the NTSB studies cockpit tapes and controller actions.
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Atlanta
Eastern Airlines
Continental Airlines
Robert MacIntosh
National Transportation Safety Board
Hartsfield Atlanta International
MacIntosh
Ralph Orlando
MaclIntosh
Eastern
NTSB
Drucella Andersen
Plane explodes in storm near Little Rock airport
A Gulfstream II jet carrying Eastman Kodak subsidiary employees crashed in heavy rain and lightning near Little Rock Municipal Airport, killing all seven aboard. Witnesses described a fiery impact short of the runway as the plane left Longview Texas for Batesville Arkansas. Names of the dead were withheld pending notification.
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Little Rock, Ark
Little Rock
Eastman Kodak Co
Steve Nawojczyk
Bill Booker
Longview
Texas
Batesville
Ark
Bill Edwards
Eastman Kodak
Tennessee Eastman
Kingsport
Tenn
Eastman
Chemical Division
Arkansas Eastman
Edwards
Craig Martin
Charley Rogers
Jim Keet
Findings muffled by USDA in WIC study review
GAO says Agriculture Department reviewers deleted favorable material from a six year WIC study and replaced it with a compendium that contains errors and omits key conclusions. The GAO report, released to Congress, notes the original executive summary found WIC improves diet, increases prenatal care, and reduces preterm deliveries. GAO urges hearings next week.
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General Accounting Office
Congress
GAO
Department
Court tosses drug testing rules across transit agencies
A federal appeals court in Washington DC struck down UMTA efforts to impose nationwide drug testing, ruling Congress authorized only local handling of safety issues. The decision favored unions, reversing a prior district court ruling and upholding the local control approach.
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Washington
Urban Mass Transportation Administration
U.S. District Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Congress
UMTA
Patricia M. Ward
Decison
U.S. District Court
Department of Transportation
Amalgamated Transit Union
Transport Workers Union of America
Transport Agency
Jim la Sala
la Sala
Buckey sues in malice claim after McMartin acquittal
Peggy McMartin Buckey who was acquitted in the McMartin Pre-School case filed a federal civil lawsuit seeking 1 million dollars alleging defamation malicious prosecution and conspiracy by Los Angeles County the city of Manhattan Beach former DA Robert Philibosian Children’s Institute International and others. The suit says the defendants joined in a conspiracy to indict the McMartin defendants and seeks general and punitive damages amid a nearly three year trial that cost more than 15 million dollars.
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Los Angeles
Peggy McMartin Buckey
U.S
Buckey
McMartin
James H. Davis
Jim
Raymond
Raymond Buckey
Los Angeles County
Manhattan Beach
Robert Philibosian
Children’s Institute International
Kee McFarlane
Capital Cities-Abc Inc
Wayne Satz
Philibosian
Satz
ABC
New York
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Everglades
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WIC
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Sterling
1St Street
Dixon
Waddell & Reed
Donald Burton
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St. Sterling, IL
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