Word: cessnas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the National Transportation Safety Board's final report, the "probable cause" of the accident was the failure of the crew of the Boeing 727 to maintain visual separation from the Cessna 172, which was overtaken and run into by the commercial...
Still as trim and erect as he was in his days as a Marine test pilot, J. Lynn Helms, 56, the new Federal Aviation Administrator, climbed aboard a little two-engine Cessna, throttled down the runway at Washington National Airport and gave chase to a Boeing 727. He made six breathtakingly close passes at the larger aircraft, almost as if he were knocking MiGs out of the skies over Korea. Last week, several days after that acrobatic performance, Helms disclosed what he had decided as a result of the flight. By 1984, he announced, a new electronic warning system would...
...cocaine trade may be the most lucrative form of commerce in the world. Periodic glimpses of its staggering scale are afforded by headlines such as those in Wilmington, N.C., early this month. DEA and U.S. Customs officials swooped in on a twin-engine Cessna that made an unscheduled nighttime landing, arresting the pilot and a passenger and seizing their cargo of 440 lbs. of cocaine. The estimated wholesale value of the shipment: $16 million...
...arrived at Lisbon airport last week anxious to fly off to Oporto. There, with national elections scheduled for Sunday, he planned to deliver a final hortatory salvo to promote his presidential candidate-but no relation-General António Soares Carneiro. With the Prime Minister, in the twin-engine Cessna C-421, were his longtime companion, Danish-born Snu Abecassis; Defense Minister Adeline Amaro da Costa and his wife; Cabinet Chief António Patricio Gouveia and two pilots. Almost immediately after takeoff, the plane lost altitude. It sheered a wing and dropped in flames to the street. All aboard...
...through the long, tin hangers looking for a plane flying east. I passed a small truck speckled with camouflage paint next to an opened hanger. Inside the hanger a figure with a blue beret, a khaki bush suit and a pipe checked the flaps of his blue and white Cessna. I made my approach. He looked up, checked me over, removed his pipe, grinned, and said, "I went to Groton, where...