Byline: New York Times
Federal investigators said Friday night that a series of miscues by a relatively inexperienced cockpit crew had led to the aborted takeoff of a USAir jetliner that crashed into the East River at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday night, killing two passengers.
The investigators said the co-pilot, on his first takeoff on a USAir aircraft, had pushed the wrong button on a set of computerized power controls that govern the thrust of the engines.
That prompted the pilot to seize the throttle manually, so that the plane - as it sped down the runway - was being powered by the pilot and steered by the co-pilot, the …
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