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The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast.

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  • US Air Crash Shatters "Normal" Lives

    This is a whole group of stories about a plane crash. It covers the basics of what happened, causes for the crash, rescue efforts and personal stories of people who were affected.

    Tags: disaster reporting; Hopkins International Airport; Fokker F-28

    By Keith Epstein;Rodney Ferguson;Frances Robles;Karen Farkas;James McCarty;Stephen Hudak;Olvera Perkins;Thomas M. Burnett;Mary Beth Lane;Lou Mio;Michael Sangiacomo;Tom Diemer;Michelle Ruess;Dave Davis

    Cleveland Plain Dealer

    1992

  • No title (id: 10522)

    Plain Dealer (Cleveland) details how power surges were repeatedly knocking out a sophisticated radar system at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, putting passengers lives at danger; finds that air traffic controllers have lost faith in the system and that official reports downplayed the real danger of the situation, Dec. 19, 1993.

    Tags: OH Sangiacomo Davis FAA CAJ 5 pages

    By None

    Cleveland Plain Dealer

    1994

  • Barrels of Hopkins

    WJW-TV (Cleveland) reveals that more than 100 barrels of chemical wastes were illegally buried at city-owned Hopkins International Airport; also finds airport officials ignored pollutants such as de-icing pellets, de-icing fluid, kerosene and raw human sewage.

    Tags: Monday Hopkins International; pollution; contamination; kerosene; human sewage; officials; city; Cleveland; Tape; Transcript

    By Carl Monday;Jim Lyons

    WJW-TV (Cleveland)

    1988