Word: airport
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...city offers two daily newspapers, for instance, as well as an airport, public transportation system, supporting universities and most of the needed athletic facilities...
...areas in his troubled homeland be opened tohumanitarian aid. The hijacker took control of a Scandinavian Airlines System flight Thursday afternoon as it flew between the Norwegian towns of Bardufoss and Bodo. After 52 people were allowed off at Bodo, the plane flew 500 miles south to an Oslo airport. The hijacker claimed to have a grenade and threatened to blow up the plane if it was stormed by police. In a tape recording released to Norwegian media, he said: "We want to open humanitarian corridors on the ground ... (so) that food, electricity and water and all necessary things come...
...evidence supporting the wake-vortex theory is thin. As Flight 427 approached the airport, it was following a Delta Airlines 727, a heavier Boeing plane that generates a slightly stronger wake. Flight 427 trailed the other jet by 4.1 nautical miles, well within the FAA regulation that requires two planes of such weights to maintain a separation of 3 nautical miles. If the 727 wake did jostle the 737 sufficiently to contribute to the latter's plunge, it would be a first. While 727s were the lead craft in seven of the 52 wake-vortex encounters documented by the NTSB...
Offical response was swift. Governor Ann Richards designated 33 counties disaster areas, clearing the way for federal assistance. Richards, in the midst of a tough re-election campaign, toured extensively throughout flooded areas in a Texas National Guard helicopter on Tuesday, then held a news conference in the Houston airport. Her opponent, George W. Bush, toured a flooded Houston subdivision in a boat piloted by a Republican county commissioner and helped evacuate a stranded teenager from her home...
...commmuter plane on its way from Indianapolis to Chicago's O'Hare Airport crashed late today in northwest Indiana, killing all 68 passengers on board. American Eagle Flight 4184 went down about 30 miles south of Gary, Ind., at about 4 p.m. EST, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The heavy rain and driving winds -- gusts up to nearly 50 m.p.h. -- forced authorities to halt the search of the area until tomorrow.People wishing to receive information about passengers may contact American Eagle...