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WORLD, Page 40World NotesBRITAINA Mortal Mystery
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.
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?
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.