Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guiding Flight 498 toward a landing in Los Angeles. A 14-year Aeromexico veteran, he had departed from Mexico City and made stops in Guadalajara, Loreto and Tijuana. At 11:51, he made his first radio contact with the terminal radar control (TRACON) center at the Los Angeles airport...
Indian Salesman Hussain Sahfi, his business suit stained with blood, still seemed in shock last week as he uttered those words. Just before dawn last Friday, Pan American World Airways Flight 73 had touched down at Pakistan's Karachi International Airport on a scheduled, 21-hour flight from Bombay to Frankfurt and New York. Eighteen hours later, a few minutes before 10 p.m. Friday, the 747 jumbo jet still stood on the tarmac, but by then at least 17 of the plane's estimated 400 passengers and crew members were dead, victims of a hijacking and a subsequent firefight. About...
...explosion of hand grenades had lasted as briefly as 30 seconds or as long as five minutes. Many of the luckiest passengers, who skidded unhurt down the escape chutes, were so terrified that they ran for several hundred yards without stopping until they reached the nearest of the airport's three terminals...
...Greek Cypriot government of President Spyros Kyprianou, the Karachi hijacking presented a dilemma. Cyprus is anxious not to antagonize its Arab neighbors, but is determined to do everything it can to discourage hijackers from landing at Larnaca airport. As soon as the terrorists demanded they be flown to the eastern Mediterranean island, the Cypriot government announced that the jumbo jet would not be allowed to land there. Whether the Cypriots would have remained firm in their resolve if the Pan Am plane had arrived in their air space is uncertain. "But fortunately," sighed one relieved Cypriot official, "our will...
...group of radical Lebanese Shi'ites in June 1985 commandeered the plane after it had departed from Athens, and demanded the release of about 700 comrades held by Israel. The hijackers freed some hostages as the Boeing 727 shuttled between Lebanon and Algeria before setting down at the Beirut airport. There the hijackers and their captives were guarded by Shi'ite security forces, and a military rescue operation was ruled out. After the hijackers dispersed the remaining hostages to secret locations in Beirut, complex negotiations among the U.S., Israel and Syria led to the release of the Shi'ite prisoners...