Airline Safety: A Special Report

Airline Safety: A Special Reportit takes a lot of people to put an airplane in the sky--but any one of them can bring it downAugust 3, 1979: Grass doesn't grow here anymore. Yesterday it rained. Now the sun is out and there is a smell coming from the black, pear-shaped scar that stretches 100 yards across this green field, a smell of kerosene and ashes, like ancient lamp oil and burned insulation. And another smell, too, a strange incipient searing smell that makes you want to move away and disc...