Word: midair
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...which had just refueled in midair, had been out on another mission, but then came a scintillating tip. For the previous few weeks, Baghdad's tony Mansur district, home to many of the Iraqi regime's elite, had been "crawling" with U.S. special forces and Iraqi informants working for the CIA, according to a U.S. official. On Monday afternoon, a non-American source reported to U.S. intelligence that he or she had seen Saddam and his entourage enter a compound--near the popular al-Saa restaurant--that was a known gathering place for Iraqi intelligence officials. The U.S. was still...
...still those eager for a glimpse of the singer, and he apparently wanted to reciprocate by showing off his offspring. Jackson has three children: Prince Michael I, age 5, and Paris, 4, by ex-wife Debbie Rowe, and Prince Michael II (mother unknown), the infant being waved in midair, who first surfaced about six months ago and who is believed to be roughly 8 months old. After worldwide condemnation of the balcony incident, Jackson issued a statement saying he had made a "terrible mistake"; the German police said they would not file any charges, as they had no evidence...
...body shot upwards, Hunsberger was surprised to find that his forward progress was suddenly stopped and that his body was hurtling sideways. Sophomore defensive back Bobby Everett laid a halacious hit on Hunsberger in midair, causing the already-sore Lions’ QB to soar out of bounds, a full four yards short of the first down...
...growing concern that pilots don't know how to cope with surprises is the reason that the FAA is researching the use of real aircraft and simulated midair emergencies to train pilots how to react to unexpected and severe movements by the aircraft. "The challenge is dealing with pilots who have years and years of safely and gently flying along, and suddenly they have a mechanical failure or a severe-weather incident," says Lou Knotts, an ex--fighter pilot who is now a vice president at Veridian, a research company that trains military and civilian pilots. "We're trying...
...ever informed anybody in the White House of Moussaoui's detention. That was unforgivable. "Do you think," says a White House antiterrorism official, "that if Dick Clarke had known the FBI had in custody a foreigner who was learning to fly a plane in midair, he wouldn't have done something...