Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sarajevo airport, for instance, is absurd. Fog rolls in almost every day just in time to delay or cancel the plane from Belgrade. A radar landing system was installed recently, but pilots who have managed to reach the city say that it often does not work. Landing-strip lights wink out during the nation's power brownouts. Trains sound like a good idea, but one New York visitor learned to his bafflement that it is not possible while still outside Yugoslavia to book a first-class train seat for a journey within Yugoslavia?Zagreb to Sarajevo, for example...
...more difficult to get rid of them. Memories are peculiarly tenacious. Hitler may have discovered as much after the German High Command issued its Nacht und Nebel decree in the western occupied territories, enabling authorities to snatch citizens off the street and out of their homes under night and fog. "The prisoners will vanish without a trace," read the decree. They did not. They were traced in the minds of those who survived. Feelings are still harder to dispose of. The Argentine mothers were not patrolling the Plaza de Mayo in the name of revolutionary ideas, but because they missed...
...passengers and five crew members. In flames, the 727 skidded 500 yards down the runway before coming to a stop. Passengers, many severely wounded, tumbled out. But for nearly 20 minutes, as the injured screamed for help, rescue teams and fire-fighting crews searched through the thick fog; they were eventually led to the scene of the accident by a survivor. Said Israeli Passenger Osant Berkowich, 32: "I could hear people shouting, 'Let me out, let me out.' It was horrible." The toll: 93 dead, 30 injured...
...investigation into the spectacular collision is still under way, but preliminary findings suggest that in the 'heavy fog the captain of the DC-9 missed the first right turn he should have taken after leaving the apron. Instead, he took the second right, onto the active runway and into the path of the Iberia...
Since the fog had closed the airport to incoming flights, Spaniards are now asking why it was not also closed for departures...