747 Cockpit Recorder Yields 'Brief' Sound; Clinton Tightens Airport Inspections

All four channels on the cockpit voice recorder of the TWA 747 that crashed last Wednesday caught a "brief, fraction-of-a-second sound just prior to the end of the tape," Robert Francis, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said yesterday. Francis refused to characterize the...

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