halifax crash was sept 2, 1998...but that is local time...interesting question of "times" and coincidence...
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I think of all the fires aloft...Valujet in florida with passengers... the UPS DC8 at Philadelphia (KPHL) a few years ago due to lithium battery fire...and our friend EK GANN's "Fate is the Hunter" adventure...he found the sucker hole that was big enough to spiral down rather than do the instrument apch.