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A Delta Airlines jetliner crashed near Dallas in August, killing 137 people. The plane was on a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Los
Angeles with an intermediate stop at Dallas-Fort Worth. Thirty-four people survived the crash but five died of injuries later. The plane
encountered a severe wind shear as it plunged to the ground.
The space program moved dhead Space walker James van Hoften A series of devastating earthquakes rumbled through Mexico City in
stands tall on the end of the robot arm of the Space Shuttle Discovery September and the death toll was in the thousands. Few in the
after successfully launching the repaired Syncom satellite in Septem·
ber. metropolitan area of 18 million escaped the effects of the first quake,
which registered 8.1 on the Richter scale; or the second quake, which
{'" measured 7.5.
