Word: 720b
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...disasters hit Pakistan last week, one as modern as the jet age, one as ancient as the wind on the face of the waters. Approaching Cairo, a Pakistani International Airlines Boeing 720B, inaugurating a new Karachi-Cairo-London run, developed engine trouble and crashed. All but six of its 130 passengers and crew were killed, including 21 Pakistani newsmen. "It was the will of God," said Gala Alkarini, one survivor, as seven baboons that had been in the luggage compartment capered, unharmed, amid the smoking ruins...
Tiny but Aggressive. With bus-schedule regularity, a weekly total of 1,105 nonstop flights shuttle between Los Angeles and San Francisco. United has assigned its three newest Boeing 727 jets exclusively to the route. Pacific Southwest has ordered five 727s and Western four 720B jets to throw into the battle. Both United and TWA have lowered their one-way jet coach fares from $23.70 to only $14.50 to compete with Western's rock-bottom $11.43 flights on venerable DC-6Bs. Western promptly lodged a protest with the Civil...
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