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When a small plane strayed into restricted airspace over Los Angeles Airport and slammed into an Aeromexico jetliner last August, killing more than 80 people, the Federal Aviation Administration decided to make the skies less friendly for private-plane operators. Last week the FAA issued recommendations that include a minimum 60-day license suspension for any pilot violating the boundaries of the terminal control area above the nation's 23 busiest airports...
...office of the Associated Press on Friday to tell a reporter that negotiations "appear to be moving." Then he added cryptically, " You keep an eye, just keep an eye." Waite left Beirut late Friday by U.S. helicopter for Cyprus. Dozens of reporters quickly set up watch at the Larnaca airport on the island, and in the absence of any hard information, rumors about a hostage deal began sweeping through the Middle East. Seven thousand miles away, campaigning for Republican candidates in Washington State and aware of the possibility of new hostage releases, President Ronald Reagan said...
Though the blast badly damaged the plane's hydraulic controls, Pilot Ampole Ploymekha somehow righted the aircraft and landed safely at Osaka International Airport. Of the 246 passengers and crew, 62 were injured, five of them seriously. Investigators traced the incident to a yakuza (Japanese gangster) who, it is believed, was trying to hide a hand grenade, purchased in Manila as a "souvenir," in the plane's bathroom when the grenade suddenly exploded...
...people aboard, including a Soviet crew of five. It refueled in Lusaka, then flew across Zimbabwe and headed south toward the Mozambique capital of Maputo. Violent thunderstorms were hitting the area, and visibility was poor. Near the South African town of Komatipoort, the Soviet pilot announced he had Maputo airport in sight and descended. The Maputo airport was actually 45 miles away; the pilot may have mistaken the lights of Komatipoort for it. Moments later, about 600 ft. inside South Africa, the plane hit treetops and cartwheeled down a rainswept hillside. Among those killed, in addition to Machel, were Transport...
Waite, the special envoy of Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, made three previous trips to Beirut to win the hostages release. Waite was whisked away in a U.S. Embassy car after landing in Cyprus, reporters and airport officials said...