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Swissair Flight 111, an MD-11 jumbo jet built by McDonnell Douglas in 1991, left New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport en route to Geneva, Switzerland, promptly at 8:18 p.m. E.T. Not quite an hour later, at 9:14, the Swiss pilot, Urs Zimmermann, radioed, "Pan! Pan! Pan!...We have smoke in the cockpit" to the control tower in Moncton in New Brunswick, Canada. (Pan is an international distress signal less urgent than Mayday.) The pilot requested diversion to Boston, but when told that Halifax, only 70 miles away, was nearer, he responded, "Prefer Halifax." When...
...arrest and trial, and three of those eight assaults took place in the U.S. Only once, when Libya was blamed for the 1986 bombing of a German discotheque, did the U.S. retaliate militarily. But persistence has paid off: the Palestinian who set a bomb on a Pan Am jet that killed one person in 1982 was finally turned over to American courts in June. The U.S. has also developed extensive and effective preventive measures...
...retinue of family, friends and assistants. "To work with Jimmy," says pilot Jim Powell, "you've got to think and whistle at the same time." Buffett and his little boy flew his huge, cacophonous 1947 Grumman Albatross seaplane; Jane and their youngest daughter rode in his Citation jet. ("Remember," he tells his audiences, "I am spending your money foolishly." Right now, he's thinking about buying a staggered-wing biplane and a truffle farm in Provence--if Jane will...
What really supports this film is its strong cast. As usual, Pesci turns in a maniacally fine performance, adding a sentimental riff here and there. Russo, looking remarkably unpregnant for someone who gives birth at the end of the movie, is sweet. Jet Li is magnificently creepy as a strong-and-silent, impeccably elegant villain. Alone among the principal supporting actors, Chris Rock, normally so funny, fails to fit his role as Murtaugh's young cop son-in-law. His edgy, larger than life comic persona makes Rock look like he is intruding on someone else's shtick...
...INVITED If you are not the CEO of a huge and successful company, be the best at something significant or, if you can, buy a jet from Gulfstream, one of Forstmann's holdings. Those attending could as easily be somewhere else. They come because they have a good time...