Word: airport
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...remains of the U.S.-built C-130 transport lay strewn across a sandy plain near the Indian border in Punjab province. The plane exploded Wednesday after taking off from a nearby airport...
Most of the wreckage lay in a 100-yard radius. A wing lying about 1000 yards away was the only piece not charred and mangled when the turpo-prop aircraft fell to the ground shortly after takeoff from Bahawalpur airport...
Heavy security surrounded the crash site which was covered with tufts of weeds and stagnant pools. The site is about eight miles north-west of the airport and 330 miles south of Islamabad...
...actually received a signal from the doomed aircraft identifying itself as an F-14 fighter. A series of such coded responses was allegedly a crucial factor in Rogers' decision to fire. Sources say the Fogarty report suggests the signals came from a C-130 transport at the Bandar Abbas airport some 60 miles away. But the C-130 signal differs from that...
...time of the blast, dozens of people were on the hill watching the ll-car motorcade travel from the airport to the city...