The World - News from March 15, 1989
Overlapping radio messages between a pilot and air traffic controllers probably led to a jet crash Feb. 28 in the Azores that killed all 144 people aboard, Portuguese investigators said in Lisbon. They said that because of the overlapping conversations, the pilot apparently descended to 2,000 feet when he should have remained at 3,000. The American-chartered Boeing 707, filled with Italian tourists on their way to the Caribbean, slammed into a fog-covered mountain on the island of Santa Maria.
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