Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weighing more than 300 Ibs., over the Chicago suburb of Palatine. Another American 707 sheds the 11-in. by 13-ft. tip of a wing flap over San Francisco Bay. And federal investigators report that basic pilot errors committed by Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson caused his Cessna Citation I jet to crash at Akron-Canton airport on Aug. 2, killing Munson and injuring two passengers...
...Munson accident raised a different kind of question: Is the FAA system for testing private pilots stringent enough? While the report on the accident has not yet been released, federal investigators unofficially cited mistakes by Munson as the probable cause. Munson had let his $1.2 million jet settle below the proper glide path, failed to extend the wing flaps for better lift and control and then, in trying to correct his dangerously low approach, had applied engine power too slowly...
Once, according to one disgruntled creditor, Straw rented a jet to deliver a check: it bounced. Authorities say Straw may face charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and bankruptcy fraud. But in the meantime, his bankruptcy has left the art world's faith in itself considerably shaken...
...more visiting dancers make a grand jeté to freedom
BEIRUT, Lebanon--Syrian jet fighters and U.S.-made Israeli planes dueled south of Beirut yesterday in the biggest air battle over Lebanon in three months...