Word: frankfort
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Delta's black comedy of errors began late last month when one of its jets dropped to within 600 ft. of the Pacific Ocean after a pilot accidentally shut off the plane's engines. The following week, on a stormy night in Kentucky, a Delta flight landed in Frankfort when it was supposed to touch down in Lexington. Two days later one of the carrier's L-1011 jumbo jets was off course and reportedly came within 100 ft. of colliding with a Continental 747 over the Atlantic Ocean...
...Delta 737, whose pilots had been thrown off course by thunderstorms, landed at the wrong airport in Kentucky. The pilots set down smoothly at Frankfort's airport, but they thought they were landing at Lexington, where the runways have a similar layout. The event occurred just after midnight, a time when neither airport's control tower is manned...
...spots that you would be driving through on your way there. In Baltimore for instance, they've taken three downtown blocks, picked up the trash, planted a few trees and called it urban redevelopment. No need for travelers checks here. In Kentucky they have caves. "Come see the fantastic Frankfort caves!" Personally, I can't think of a better way to spend my vacation than crawling around in a cave. Signs everywhere tell you to watch out for the scorpions. Someone in the back of the tour group always reminds you, "They can't kill you, you know. They only...
...Crimson basketball team lost a player in tragic fashion when John Harnice '84 drowned on July 30. A reserve forward with the varsity who played relatively little last season. Harnice died after an 80-ft. dive from a bridge near his Frankfort, Ky. home...
...French legal authorities at bay through his hand-picked Supreme Court. Barbie and friends could frequently be seen enjoying themselves at the Taverne Bavaria in Santa Cruz, where hundreds of ex-Nazis gathered for reunions, took their uniforms out of mothballs, sang S.S. apthems and even imported prostitutes from Frankfort. The whole operation was financed though drug and arms deals. As an exile, Barbie was at the height of his power and bragged in an interview with the German magazine Stern: "Every time the military needs help they call...