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THE BATTALION
Thursday, Novemberli
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NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators raised the possibility
Wednesday that turbulence from the wake of a 747 led to the crash
of American Flight 587, saying the doomed plane took off less than
the standard two minutes after the jumbo jet.
“We do not know whether this contributed in any way to the
actual accident, but we are looking at this very closely,” said Marion
Blakey, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board.
Wake turbulence, the swirl of air behind a plane, can endanger
planes flying too close behind or below. The phenomenon has been
blamed for at least one deadly crash in the past.
Investigators want to know whether it caused Flight 587 to break
apart three minutes after takeoff from Kennedy Airport on Monday,
killing all 260 people aboard and as many as five on the ground. The
plane’s tail assembly sheared away and its twin engines fell off as
the jet went down.
Standard protocol says there should be at least two minutes
between takeoffs. However, Blakey said it appeared there was less
than that between Flight 587, an Airbus A300, and a Japan Air Lines
Boeing 747 that left ahead of it from the same runway.
“We believe that in fact it was one minute and 45 seconds,”
Blakey said.
She said it appears air traffic controllers followed proper proce
dure, and that tower clearances for the two takeoffs came two min
utes and 20 seconds apart.
But investigators believe there was a delay from the time Japan
Air Lines got clearance to take off and the time it actually did so,
NTSB spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz said.
Pointing to a map of the two planes’ flight paths, Blakey noted
that although the jumbo jet’s path was 800 feet above Flight 587’s,
the winds probably pushed the turbulence lower.
The cockpit voice recorder from Flight 587’s final minutes
revealed two rattling noises and indicated the pilots complained
about the wake of another plane before their aircraft went
down.
Walter Sheriff, a retired American Airlines captain who studies
the phenomenon, said the wake turbulence from the four-engine 747
could have struck the Airbus with “tomado-like lateral force.”
The Federal Aviation Administration has set minimum distances
for planes flying near each other, based on aircraft size. After a 1992
crash in Billings, Mont., that killed eight people, federal investiga
tors found that the pilot failed to follow the established “vortex
avoidance procedure” and fiew too close to a jet.
Blakey, at a news conference, also said that Flight 587’s other
black box — its flight data recorder — was repaired by the manu-
Piece of the puzzle
Not long after American Airlines 587 crashed in New York
the Airbus A300’s 27-foot tail fin was fished out of Jamaica
Investigators are working to discover what role the tail and
breakage played in the catastrophe.
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strengthens the tail and
anchors it to the fuselage.
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in the crash.
Both of the plane's engines have been recovered and lake;
hangar at Kennedy.
Authorities have not ruled out sabotage or other causesbui
said all signs point to a mechanical failure.
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