Word: cessnas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...airport terminal was a series of concrete blocks set on a butte overlooking Billings. Winds buffetted dead and splayed planes sitting on the cracked runway. A lone, bearded pilot inspected his single-engine Cessna 140. "Excuse me sir, I'm a college student who must get back East as fast as possible. May I have a ride...
...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...
They go aloft in spiffy Cessna 310s and cruise the highways in Cadillacs and Lincolns. In bays and harbors, they make waves with rakish speedboats and cabin cruisers. They are Florida's modestly paid drug agents; yet their planes, cars and boats are among the best that money can buy-certainly better than the usual Government issue. For good reason. The expensive equipment once belonged to the smugglers themselves...
Heading into storms, Benscotter apparently put the twin-engine Cessna 441 into a climb to get over the weather. Later, radar detected the plane flying an erratic course, and the Air Force scrambled jets to investigate. Captain Daniel Zoerb spotted the Cessna off Norfolk, Va., now more than 1,000 miles from Shreveport. It was flying at 41,000 ft., 5,000 ft. above the maximum altitude for which it is certified, and presumably on automatic pilot. Zoerb tried to make contact with the Cessna by radio, but got no answer. He saw the plane go into a steep dive...