It's not often that the pride of a whole culture stands so visibly in support of a product. Several hundred flights around the country were delayed for up to two hours as aircraft were held on the ground or diverted while controllers wrote data by hand. Now we have to fix things as they break. Officials maintain neither event was related to the Y2K bug. The fallout from two recent events continues.
Authorities suspect it is harder to get rid of the contamination than was first thought.
Ellison's fully fueled G-V exceeds that by some 15,000 pounds, and so far he's collected nine citations. The Oracle mogul and his lawyer contend that the curfew is really about noise but designates weight as a matter of expedience, noting that a Learjet is noisier than the G-V, but can land anytime because it's lighter. Corporate jet operators and airport neighborhoods will be listening closely for the outcome of this dispute. The instrument had failed on the plane's previous flight and was worked on or inspected by a KAL ground engineer just prior to the final departure. Wash. Yttri did not survive.