Word: flighted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thought it would be the mayor, not people like us." The next thing Franziska knew, Noack was asking if she would like to have dinner in Spain. A car picked the couple up at 8 a.m. on July 2, and drove them to the airport for their flight to Spain. By 7.30 p.m., they were seated on the patio at El Bulli, enjoying those hot-and-cold gin fizzes. They returned to Kassel the next morning...
...chances Herzog takes on finances are nothing compared with his directorial appetite for catastrophe. Telling him something's impossible is like inviting Paris Hilton to a party. He'll be on the next flight to Doomsville, as when he read that a volcano was to erupt on Guadeloupe; off he went to tempt death and came back with the spectacular documentary La Soufrière. On the Amazon epic Fitzcarraldo, he took his crew hundreds of miles from the nearest city and had them lug a 320-ton riverboat overland and up steep hills. He found a suitably lush location...
...about 11pm on the night of July 2, Australian Federal Police agents arrested Bosher's tenant, Dr. Mohamed Haneef, at Brisbane's international airport as he attempted to board a flight to Asia on a one-way ticket. The 27-year-old emergency medicine trainee is being held in connection with inquiries into the recent attempted terror attacks in England and Scotland, in which two cars packed with explosives were discovered in central London, while an SUV filled with fuel canisters was driven into a terminal building at Glasgow International Airport. A second doctor, an associate of Haneef...
...After a string of jobs at local hospitals - most recently at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire - Asha was making plans ahead of a visit to his family back home. Eager to pick up presents for his six brothers and two sisters before his July 12 British Airways flight, he telephoned his parents to check on the family's clothing sizes...
...source in Malta. And the Maltese shopkeeper identified Megrahi (many months after the bombing) as the Libyan who bought the clothes. According to the prosecution, Megrahi then sent the bomb-laden suitcase from Malta, via Frankfurt, to London Heathrow airport, where it was loaded onto Pan Am Flight 103 to New York's JFK Airport. Many skeptics find that storyline implausible: too complicated, and too dependent on a charitable reading of evidence and witness testimony. That's why the PFLP-GC theory has never died and why some even believe, as the defense suggested at Megrahi's original trial...