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Article: Henry Mitchell's Plane Crash Theories
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 10, 1989
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I don't know how to explain Henry Mitchell's Dec. 30 column
{Style}. While its headline, "Plane Crashes and Questions of
Security," promised a certain coherence, it was instead a rambling
and disjointed collection of thoughts barely processed and set to
paper, an unworthy product of any serious journalist.
For those who missed it, the roller-coaster column went a bit
like this: First, forget about all the evidence that suggests Pam Am
flight 103 was blown up by a terrorist bomb. Mr. Mitchell prefers to
see an aviation industry conspiracy that is out to cover up the real
cause: structural flaws in an aging airline fleet. But since
everyone's talking about security anyway, the columnist ...