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...seized the Whydah, an English slave galley named for a West African port. He turned it into a carrier for tons of silver and gold but $ never lived to enjoy his hoard. The Whydah broke up in a storm off Cape Cod, its crew drunk on pirated wine, its cargo lost, its very existence doubted...
While Italian political life returned to normal, the Achille Lauro embarked on a new cruise with 570 tourists on board. It was not all smooth sailing. A bomb scare was taken so seriously that a nervous crew dumped a cargo of slot machines into the sea rather than risk the chance of hidden explosives among the crates. The ship also left a wake of legal problems. Italy's Supreme Court settled a quarrel over whether Genoa or Syracuse would have the authority to / continue the investigation of the hijacking and bring the terrorists to trial. Genoa won on the ground...
...some extreme cases, the crew members put the plane on automatic pilot, dump the drugs and bail out. Once on the ground, they locate the contraband by tuning to the radio signals from the parachuted cargo. The plane crashes when it runs out of fuel. The loss of a $500,000 plane is a modest sacrifice when compared with the tens of millions the cocaine can bring. Roger Garland, operations supervisor of the U.S. Customs Air Branch based at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, once tracked a plane with no one in it for 40 miles until it splashed...
...historically have rejected foreign assistance following natural disasters, decided to welcome outside emergency aid. Within two days of the quake, U.S. Air Force C-5A Galaxy, C-141 StarLifter and C-130 Hercules transports were flying into Mexico City's Benito Juarez airport from eight U.S. air bases. Their cargo holds were filled with portable generators, jackhammers, jacks and winches. The planes also ferried in sleeping bags, cots, blankets and, ominously, 5,000 rubberized body bags. By week's end about 350 tons of U.S. supplies had been airlifted, along with some 250 rescue personnel...
...first casualty was a Hughes Aircraft-built LEASAT 4 satellite, which began to malfunction, apparently because of a faulty transmission cable, about one week after it popped perfectly out of the cargo bay of the space shuttle Discovery on Aug. 29. Two other satellites, one owned by GTE, the other by a European consortium, were lost on Sept. 12 when the European Space Agency had to destroy the misfired Ariane rocket that carried them. The mishaps brought to $600 million the total cost to insurers of the seven satellites lost in the past two years. As a result, some insurers...