"When Isawthat, Ilooked around myoffice at allof thebeigeplasticdevices that had populatedmylife and were trying to hide fromviewbecause they were so ugly and cheap," Komisar recalls.
Rescuers rushed to bury part of the wreckage, either in haste to get the service going again before all the survivors had been accounted for, or becausethey wished tohide technology (either Chinese, or some lifted from foreign companies).