Word: jetcraft
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...aboard. West German police meticulously inspected each item, Israeli-style, in every passenger's luggage. Major airports located near international waters, including New York's Kennedy and Boston's Logan, were asked to patrol for any suspicious-looking craft capable of firing rockets. In addition, Lufthansa jetcraft followed new flight patterns. In West Germany the planes were often given runway changes at the last minute...
...place for them during a gun battle. Authorities theorized that both victims #151;a 40-year-old man from Elst and an Indonesian girl from Groningen who spent her 20th birthday on the train -were shot when they stood up. But so effective were the terrifying roars of the jetcraft that the great majority of the prisoners instinctively dove for the ground. Summed up Air Force Major W.A. Blaauw: "It was a nice operation. You must count on some casualties in operations like this, but they were kept very low, and it was a great success...
DEEP in the timeless Jordanian desert, the three silvery jetcraft glinted like metallic mirages in the afternoon sun, their finned tails emblazoned with the insignia of three famed airlines: TWA. BOAC and Swissair. Then suddenly a huge explosion, then another and another. The planes crumpled, then burst into flame. From the burning wreckage rose columns of black smoke that were visible 25 miles away in Amman, where Arab guerrillas fired their guns in celebration...
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