Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Black Rain stars Michael Douglas (Wall Street) as Nick Conklin, a tough New York policeman who has been assigned to take a captured Japanese mafioso back to Tokyo. But Douglas blunders when he gets to Japan. At the airport he delivers the prisoner not to the Tokyo police, but to mobsters impersonating police...
...YORK--A USAir 737 carrying 62 people skidded off a runway on takeoff from LaGuardia Airport and splashed into the East River late last night, killing at least three people, authorities said...
...last radio contact between the plane and air traffic controllers, 40 to 50 minutes after leaving the airport at N'Djamena, indicated that everything was normal, the airline said...
...storm's winds overturned cars and stripped roofs off houses and office buildings and sent chunks of concrete plunging into streets in the capital city of San Juan, where one-third of the U.S. commonwealth's 3.3 million residents live. Fifty airplanes were reported destroyed at the airport in Isla Verde...
...Unusually heavy rains have slowed down the burning this year, but the dry season could come at any time, and then the fires will reach a peak. Last year the smoke grew so thick that Porto Velho, the capital of the state of Rondonia, was forced to close its airport for days at a time. An estimated 12,350 sq. mi. of Brazilian rain forest -- an area larger than Belgium -- was reduced to ashes. Anticipating another conflagration this year, scientists, environmentalists and TV crews have journeyed to Porto Velho to marvel and despair at the immolation of these ancient forests...