Word: aeronica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Housewives, professors, actors, doctors, writers, clergymen, nuns, computer programmers, retirees and students tumble off the afternoon Aeronica flight from Miami, loosening ties and donning VIVA SANDING! T shirts in anticipation of tropical heat and revolutionary fervor. The itinerary includes weekly "face the people" meetings that Nicaraguan leaders usually hold in poor barrios of Managua. "We are ashamed, truly ashamed, as U.S. citizens, about the Reagan Administration policy toward Nicaragua," proclaimed Paula Braverman, a San Francisco physician, at a recent rally...
...Escoto's house, no one was injured and the plane flew off into the predawn darkness. A few minutes later a second Cessna appeared, over Augusto César Sandino Airport, about eight miles outside the city. A 500-lb. bomb landed near the hangar of Aeronica, the national airline, causing minor damage, and Nicaraguan soldiers reportedly opened fire with antiaircraft guns along the runways. The propeller-driven plane crashed at the base of the control tower, killing the pilot and copilot and touching off a fire that destroyed part of the terminal...
...dead fliers were identified as Agustín Roman, a Nicaraguan who once worked for Aeronica, and Sebastián Muller, an air force deserter. Nicaraguan authorities said that flight plans and other documents found in the wreckage showed that the two aircraft had taken off from a small airport near San José, the capital of Costa Rica. Spokesmen for both the Costa Rican government and Pastora's rebels denied that the planes had come from Costa Rica. A.R.D.E. sources claimed that the flights had originated at a dirt airstrip that the rebels had recently captured in southeastern...
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