Word: midair
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...since 1976, when its commandos raided Entebbe airport in Uganda to rescue a planeload of passengers being held hostage by Palestinian gunmen, had Israel launched an operation so far from home. This time, the Israelis flew some 1,500 miles across the Mediterranean, twice refueling in midair. The Israelis announced that the raid was in reprisal for the murder by terrorists a week earlier of three Israeli civilians on a yacht in the port of Larnaca, Cyprus. The Israelis were convinced that the attack, which took place on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, had been carried...
...widely used engine has previously been associated with midair aircraft emergencies: the National Transportation Safety Board has reported problems with the turbine disks on five occasions in the past two years. But at least two-thirds of the 1,000 commercial jets in the U.S. that use the JT8D-15 are already subject to stringent FAA-approved maintenance programs, and will not require further inspection under the order...
...which was built for Boeing by Pratt & Whitney of East Hartford, Conn. In the case of Air India Flight 182, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the Irish coast on June 23, killing all 329 aboard, a bomb is suspected of having caused the 747 to disintegrate in midair. The JAL crash on Aug. 12, which claimed 520 lives, is still under investigation, but speculation continues that the rear pressure bulkhead cracked in flight...
...Ireland, investigators from four nations were looking for clues to the midair disintegration of Air India Flight 182, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the Irish coast on June 23 en route from Toronto to Bombay via London, killing all 329 people on board. Amid widespread theorizing that a terrorist bomb aboard the Boeing 747 had caused the accident, investigators were considering other explanations, including the possibility that a spare engine being carried under the plane's right wing might have had something to do with the crash. Although hopes had been slim that the two flight recorders could...
Rowning dove hard to her right, intercepting the shot in midair, to stop both the ball and the ballgame...