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...Iran could no longer be protected. On Friday, in the first stage of an exodus from anarchy, a Pan American 707 flew from Tehran's Mehrabad Airport to Frankfurt and New York with 151 people aboard. On Saturday, under tight security provided by the Khomeini regime, chartered Pan Am 747s began the full-scale evacuation of Americans to Frankfurt and Rome...
...Chinese specifically asked to see, a container loading dock and the Lockheed shipyard. In the afternoon, Teng was to visit the Boeing plant in Everett 30 miles north of Seattle. There, on the floor of the world's most spacious building (200 million cu. ft.), are eleven Boeing 747s in various stages of construction. After dinner with executives of five firms that do business with China (Dungeness crabs, oysters, and at Teng's request filet mignon) and a night's rest, Teng and his party would board their 707 for the return to the Middle Kingdom...
...Bakhtiar's nervous government reversed its earlier decision to let him return. Soldiers moved into Tehran's Mehrabad Airport during the night and unplugged electric and fuel lines of Boeing 707 and 747 aircraft belonging to Iran Air, the country's commercial line. One of the 747s was to have been flown to Paris by striking pilots and crew to pick up the revolution's most important passenger. The army then surrounded the airport with tanks and closed it "until further notice." The next day troops ordered away the crew and 2,000 people...
...meaningless because the LOFT reactor has less than 2% of the output of a typical atomic plant. Said his colleague Robert Pollard: "It's like using a kite to prove a moon rocket will work." But LOFT scientists rejected that argument. Said one: "It isn't necessary to crash 747s against buildings to test their safety." One thing was indisputable: the emergency core cooling system did work. Just to make sure that it does the job under different conditions, the Commission will stage about 20 more LOFT tests through the 1980s...
...March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747s collided on the fog-shrouded runway of Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife, the largest of Spain's Canary Islands. The disaster was the worst in aviation history, with a death toll of 583, including all aboard KLM's Rhine River and all but 61 people on Pan Am's Clipper Victor. Last week the Spanish government released the findings of an 18-month investigation of the crash. The verdict: KLM Captain Jacob Veldhuizen Van Zanten's decision to start his takeoff run without tower clearance was the "fundamental cause...