ALCOHOL TEST ON PILOT CALLED INCONCLUSIVE.Byline: Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire Colombian authorities expressed surprise and irritation irritation /ir·ri·ta·tion/ (ir?i-ta´shun) 1. the act of stimulating. 2. a state of overexcitation and undue sensitivity.ir´ritative ir·ri·ta·tion n. 1. Thursday that U.S. officials had released information indicating that alcohol had been detected in the remains of the American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the pilot whose plane crashed here last month. "I'm as surprised as you are," Dr. Jose Gregorio Mesa, acting director of the Colombian Institute of Legal Medicine, told reporters. "In no way have we reached this (conclusion)." The institute is conducting tests on the bodies of the crew of American Airlines Flight 965, which plowed plow also plough n. 1. A farm implement consisting of a heavy blade at the end of a beam, usually hitched to a draft team or motor vehicle and used for breaking up soil and cutting furrows in preparation for sowing. 2. into a mountain outside Cali on Dec. 20. The crash, which killed 160 of the 164 passengers and crew, was the worst disaster in U.S. aviation last year. Even if there is alcohol in the body of Capt. Nicholas Tafuri, it would not necessarily mean that he had been drinking before the crash. Alcohol also can be created by the body's decomposition decomposition /de·com·po·si·tion/ (de-kom?pah-zish´un) the separation of compound bodies into their constituent principles. de·com·po·si·tion n. 1. . |
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