71.   Ground controllers fired more than one million green laser beam pulses from Discovery as of Saturday, pleasing researchers who had lost data earlier because of equipment failures.

72.   Investigations were centering on whether the pilots or air traffic control officers blundered, or whether equipment failure was to blame.

73.   A high-frequency sound would be more indicative of an equipment failure that led to decompression, he said.

74.   But the department said it was unaware of any equipment failures in the field that could be attributed to the Philips components.

75.   Crew is coming around, although boat is still hurt by too frequent equipment failures.

76.   Items affected included pumps, measuring instruments and heart-lung machines, with some devices emitting rogue noises and others presenting serious malfunctions and even equipment failure.

77.   The plane was escorted to French air space and French air traffic controllers were notified of the equipment failure.