James Hall
James Hall
An American author and World War I veteran, he co-wrote the novel Mutiny on the Bounty with Charles Nordhoff. Hall's other works include Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 April 1887
CityColfax, IA
CountryUnited States of America
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It's important for the citizens of this country and the citizens of the world to know there were more American citizens on that flight than citizens from any other country,
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It's all a matter of opinion. The goal is to do better than I did last year, which is more than 11 1/2 sacks. I'm not big on statistics, but that is the goal.
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The real focus of the investigation ... is to get those recorders,
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We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.
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The debris fields are as dangerous as any we have dealt with in NTSB experience, so we are going to try to accomplish this task with these remote vehicles,
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As long as there are differences in the interpretation -- and there are significant differences in the cultural interpretations of some expressions on the recorder -- I think it is unfair ... for us to characterize it,
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The bottom line is it took the ValuJet accident for that to happen.
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Our investigators have looked at all the radar tapes that exist from that evening and have not seen anything that indicates a missile track or missile hit,
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It is obviously up to the FAA and the industry to work out the time frame that that needs to be done.
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Our work will continue and we will spare no effort to determine exactly what happened to TWA 800,
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In addition to doing patrols with them, we've tried to spend some of our off-time with them to cheer them up,
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