Word: ilyushins
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...ending the incident peacefully. Arafat sent a message to the terrorists pointing out that an operation such as theirs did not serve the Palestinian cause. Meanwhile, Sadat had agreed to have them flown to Algiers if they did not harm their captives. The kidnapers agreed. When an Algerian Ilyushin-18 arrived in Algiers at 3:30 a.m., the three Egyptians, plus the Iraqi and Algerian ambassadors, who had gone along as volunteer hostages to the terrorists, were released unharmed...
...Russians in Somalia today, fully 1,400 are assigned to the army and air force. The Somali army, less than half the size of neighboring Ethiopia's, now has far superior firepower-and the largest tank force south of the Sahara. The air force boasts a squadron of Ilyushin-28 bombers and at least 50 MIGS, including seven MIG-21s that were presented to Somalia by Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny when he visited the country last year. All top officers of Somalia's highly efficient National Security Service have been trained...
...Government and the people of the U.S. I am confident that relations between the Soviet Union and the U.S. will continue to develop to the benefit of our peoples and in the interests of international security and peace." Two hours later, Brezhnev's blue and white Ilyushin-62 jet landed in Havana, and the Russian leader began a week-long visit that at times seemed mainly aimed at patching up relations between Cuba...
Leonid Ilich Brezhnev came courting the U.S. last week. Money and trade might be in the air more than love, but by East-West standards it promised to be an extraordinarily warm visit. Late Saturday afternoon a sleek blue-and-white Soviet Ilyushin-62 touched down at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. Out stepped the Soviet party leader, who was greeted by Secretary of State William Rogers and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Walter Stoessel. There were smiles and handshakes at the airbase, but no bands, no fanfare, no formal speeches...
...coming in for a landing at Kano had to make a second attempt because of the blinding harmattan. As the plane landed on the second try, the 707 suddenly burst into flames, and 176 of its 202 passengers were killed. The death toll equaled that of an Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 crash near Moscow last October and shares its distinction as the highest in commercial aviation history...