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- <text id=89TT0316>
- <title>
- Jan. 30, 1989: American Notes:Aviation
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Jan. 30, 1989 The Bush Era Begins
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 31
- American Notes
- AVIATION
- Two Engines Are Better
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- <p> Airlines routinely lose baggage, and one airplane in flight
- last year even lost some of its skin. In the sky near Chicago's
- O'Hare International Airport last week, a Boeing 737 lost
- something just as important: one of its two engines. Moments
- after takeoff, the jet's right engine somehow tore free from
- the wing at about 1,000 ft. and plummeted to a field below. The
- plane landed safely back at O'Hare, and all 32 people aboard
- Piedmont Flight 1480, bound for Charlotte, N.C., escaped
- injury. Smoke was "coming out of one engine," said a passenger.
- "We saw it leaning, almost falling off, and then it fell off."
- Neither Piedmont nor Federal Aviation Administration officials
- were prepared to offer an explanation last week for what caused
- the engine to fall.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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