Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle in the sky. It was unbelievable." So said Jordanian Businessman Salim Dado after surviving a terrifying ordeal aboard an Iraqi jetliner on Christmas Day. According to officials in Saudi Arabia, where the plane subsequently crashed, 62 of the 107 passengers and crew members on the stricken craft were not so lucky: they died in the crash, and about 20 others were injured, in one of the worst hijacking disasters on record...
...cockpit, wounding the pilot and co-pilot. Despite the damage to the aircraft, the injured pilot managed to keep it on course for 17 minutes, until he reached a remote desert airfield in northern Saudi Arabia, but he was unable to prevent it from breaking apart in a fiery crash landing. Among the survivors was former Jordanian Interior Minister Suleiman Aarar...
...between Iraq and Iran. In Tehran, the government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini denied involvement and said it condemned "any moves that may threaten the lives of innocent passengers." But in Lebanon, several terrorist groups, including the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the hijacking. One survivor of the crash reported that the terrorists spoke with southern Lebanese accents, implying that they were indeed Shi'ite fundamentalists loyal to Khomeini...
...reluctant candidate went through a crash course on campaign issues with advisers, she turned to prayer for help in making up her mind whether...
...honorary doctorates besides. He earned them with a style of living, not playing. New York recalls the two A.B.A. titles he celebrated with the Nets, but Mississippi's Necaise Crossing remembers that he came to Wendell Ladner's funeral. The Net forward Ladner died in an off-season plane crash. He was a Li'l Abner from a piney-woods logging town, neither of them very easy for a black man to reach. But Erving got to Ladner, and he got to Necaise Crossing. "That was a memory, right there," he says with a distant look...