Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McDonnell Douglas MD-80 turbofan jet had just lifted off from New York's LaGuardia Airport and was streaking toward the Manhattan skyline when its left engine burst into flames. Pilot Bob Harry kept his cool. Banking sharply, he cut a swath over the city, put the Statue of Liberty behind his right wing and headed back to LaGuardia. In a matter of minutes, he had lined up his plane over an empty runway, pulled out the flaps and felt the familiar jolt of a successful touchdown...
...Estrich, not Dukakis First Friend Paul Brountas, who caused the notorious phone-call-that-missed. When Lloyd Bentsen was picked as the vice-presidential nominee, Brountas gave Estrich Jackson's telephone number and the responsibility for calling with the news before Jackson left his Cincinnati hotel room for the airport. Seems that it somehow slipped her mind. When Dukakis explained to reporters that his campaign manager had not given him the number, Brountas realized Estrich would be wounded and decided to take the fall...
...task of realizing M.'s altered states fell to Sirlin, whose credits include, in addition to opera, Madonna's 1987 "Who's That Girl" tour. The Viennese venue was striking: a section of Hangar No. 3 at Schwechat International Airport. "We looked at a couple of beer halls, but we needed a bigger space," says Sirlin. "Then someone said there was plenty of space at the airport...
J.F.K. had pondered the Vice President question very little as the Los Angeles convention approached. His consuming concern was to win a first-ballot nomination. He flew to New York City's Idlewild Airport on Friday night. He and Jackie had a suite in the nearby International Hotel. It was a strange evening. There were only a few reporters around and virtually no Kennedy aides or security people...
...single-engine Mooney-252 touched down smoothly at Le Bourget airport, and the smiling pilot hopped off the two pillows that had elevated him high enough to peer out the plane's window. He turned down a glass of champagne and took a Coke instead. Landing at the same field where Charles Lindbergh ended his solo flight in 1927, U.S. Aviator Christopher Lee Marshall, all of eleven years old, had just become the youngest pilot to fly across the Atlantic...