Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from a suburban Los Angeles airfield, flew into the restricted airspace that protects Los Angeles International Airport without informing controllers, and collided with an Aeromexico jetliner. Eighty-two people died. Last week a single-engine Mooney aircraft lifted off from a municipal airfield 15 miles south of Salt Lake City, intruded without warning into the restricted zone around the city's international airport, and struck a SkyWest commuter airliner. All ten people in the two planes were killed...
...SkyWest Metro and the pilot and flight instructor occupying the Mooney. A priority rule of flying, regardless of whether controllers are monitoring a flight, is that someone must always be watching for other air traffic. When the two planes collided about 2,400 ft. above the Salt Lake valley, visibility was 20 miles...
...Mooney pilot, moreover, had not checked in with controllers as required. "He busted the ARSA," said Don Moffit, a Salt Lake City tower manager, referring to the Airport Radar Service Area in which all planes must be directed by controllers...
...Britain, where at least 37 people perished in record low temperatures, snow drifts up to ten feet high cut off towns and villages in the counties of Kent and Surrey. A rare heavy snowfall forced the closing of major highway and rail links to Scotland and the Lake District. British Rail was forced to cancel all but 3% of its commuter trains to and from the capital. Warned a blunt notice at London's Charing Cross station: "There is very little chance of anyone reaching their intended destination and even less chance of them getting back again...
...Iranian Revolutionary Guards swarmed across the line dividing Iranian and Iraqi troops, some 20 miles to the east of Basra, Iraq's second largest city. Shouting "Allah akbar!" (God is great), they stormed over the barbed wire that crowned the embankments along a flooded artificial barrier called Fish Lake, inflicting heavy casualties on the dug-in Iraqi troops...