abstract:Uzel was the Soviet Union's first digital computer used on submarines, to assist in tracking multiple targets and calculate torpedo solutions. Uzel's design team was headed by two American defectors to the Soviet Union, Alfred Sarant (aka Philip Staros) and Joel Barr (aka Joseph Berg).
"Wewereatan altitudeof 600 metres when we heard the announcementthat we werelanding," KeremUzelsaid. "we suddenlydescended a great distance, as if the plane fell into turbulence."
And demand for a share offering on July 30th by Uzel Makina, a tractor company, was disappointing, despite newspaper advertisements aimed at individual investors.
One passenger aboard the plane, Kerem Uzel, told Turkish news channel NTV that the plane's landing had been announced when they were at an altitude of 600m (2, 000ft).