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- <text id=89TT0228>
- <title>
- Jan. 23, 1989: Britain:A Mortal Mystery
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Jan. 23, 1989 Barbara Bush:The Silver Fox
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 40
- World Notes
- BRITAIN
- A Mortal Mystery
- </hdr><body>
- <p> At first it looked like a lethal 10 million-to-1 long shot:
- both engines of a twelve-week-old British Midland Airways Boeing
- 737 bound for Northern Ireland apparently failed. The plane
- crashed just short of an emergency landing last week, killing
- 44 of the 126 aboard.
- </p>
- <p> But preliminary evidence showed that the right engine of the
- jet, which had been functioning properly, was shut down by the
- crew in flight, while the left engine, which had caught fire,
- was allowed to remain in operation. Still unanswered: Why?
- </p>
- <p> While not ruling out pilot error, investigators are focusing
- on the possibility that the plane's electronic fire-alarm system
- failed and indicated trouble in the wrong engine, leading to a
- tragic mistake. As other Boeing 737s are being checked, the
- remains of Flight 92's engines have been sent back to their
- French co-maker, SNECMA, for examination.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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