Doomed plane's gaming system exposes holes in FAA oversight By Gary Stoller, USA TODAY A small Las Vegas company with large ambitions and marquee investors sold U.S. regulators and Swissair on a video gaming system for airplanes. Until Flight 111 crashed, no one realized how many chances had been taken with passengers' safety. Flight 111 was dubbed "the U.N. shuttle" for its popularity with United Nations officials, although passenger lists regularly carried the names of prominent scientists, researchers and business executives, too. Hours after the jumbo jet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 2, 1998, killing all 229 people aboard, Canadian and U.S. aviation authorities zeroed in on something else that was distinctive about Flight 111. (Aftermath: Changes since FAA review of Flight 111) for the rest of the story.............http://www.usatoday.com/money/biztravel/2003-02-16-swissair-investigation_x.htm (very long article) *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@escape.ca Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Site of the Week: http://www.trotters.net TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************