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Hall was arrested Dec. 12 at Punta Huete air base, 13 miles northeast of Managua, with maps and sketches of the airfield, crudely drawn on hotel stationery, stuffed in his socks, the Sandinistas said at the time...
...circumstances were chillingly similar. Last Aug. 31 a small private plane took off from a suburban Los Angeles airfield, flew into the restricted airspace that protects Los Angeles International Airport without informing controllers, and collided with an Aeromexico jetliner. Eighty-two people died. Last week a single-engine Mooney aircraft lifted off from a municipal airfield 15 miles south of Salt Lake City, intruded without warning into the restricted zone around the city's international airport, and struck a SkyWest commuter airliner. All ten people in the two planes were killed...
...Passenger Dado, the first terrorist then lobbed a grenade into the rear cabin and another into the cockpit, wounding the pilot and co-pilot. Despite the damage to the aircraft, the injured pilot managed to keep it on course for 17 minutes, until he reached a remote desert airfield in northern Saudi Arabia, but he was unable to prevent it from breaking apart in a fiery crash landing. Among the survivors was former Jordanian Interior Minister Suleiman Aarar...
...Training School, and has already spent four weeks studying for her pilot's license. Last week "Chatterbox One" -- so named by local air-traffic controllers because she chatters away on the plane's radio during lessons -- completed her first solo flight, a full circle of the R.A.F.'s Benson airfield in Oxfordshire. When she'd landed, Fergie bounced happily out of the aircraft and phoned Prince Andrew, who, between his wife's giggles, pronounced he was "absolutely delighted." Fergie also received kudos over the radio from her brother-in-law Prince Charles, who was at the base...
...Fleet now squares off against a Soviet force that is the largest of Moscow's four naval units. From headquarters in Vladivostok, the Soviet Pacific Fleet covers a 1,200-mile maritime zone that stretches south from the Kamchatka Peninsula to Viet Nam's Cam Ranh Bay, the vast airfield-and-port complex developed by the U.S. during the Viet Nam War. The Soviet fleet includes two small aircraft carriers, twelve nuclear-armed cruisers and 180 combat aircraft. On any given day, 25 to 30 Soviet ships are docked at Cam Ranh Bay, just 870 nautical miles from...