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- <text id=92TT1781>
- <title>
- Aug. 10, 1992: "It's Amazing . . ."
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 10, 1992 The Doomsday Plan
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 13
- NATION
- "It's Amazing..."
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- <p> The spokesman at New York's Kennedy Airport was incredulous
- that everyone on this gutted plane had survived. The fire aboard
- TWA Flight 843 erupted in the rear of the L-1011 jumbo jet as it
- was about to lift off for San Francisco with 292 aboard. The
- pilot aborted the takeoff, the plane crashed through a runway
- barrier and the crew chuted out the passengers with expert
- precision; 55 people suffered minor injuries. Other air travelers
- were not so lucky. A Thai jetliner carrying 113 people reportedly
- slammed into a Himalayan mountainside as it approached Katmandu,
- Nepal; all are feared dead. In Nanjing, China, at least 100 died
- in a takeoff crash.
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- </body></article>
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