Word: learjets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...million. As the plane sped away from Toronto, this time bound for Knoxville, Tenn., Passenger Fortson had a mild seizure. Also the hijackers got into the liquor supply and drank more than 40 of the small airline bottles. By now the jetliner was being tracked by a Southern Airways Learjet and a DC-9, as well as a Navy Reserve plane with FBI agents aboard. Over Tennessee the prospects darkened; the hijackers began threatening to plunge the plane into the atomic-energy facilities at Oak Ridge if their demands were not met. They finally landed in Chattanooga, where Southern sent...