Word: narita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europe and Asia, some aviation experts have been critical of U.S. aviation practices. Japan's Ministry of Transport complained last month that mechanical problems had forced too many Northwest flights to return to Tokyo's Narita airport after takeoff, allegedly increasing congestion at the crowded facility. Last May a group of European airlines refused to take delivery of Boeing's new 747-400 jetliners until the company agreed to reinforce the cabin floors...
...Japan, there were indications that a sophisticated timing device may have tripped the explosion of a bomb in a bag unloaded from Canadian Pacific Flight 003. The blast killed two baggage handlers and injured four others at Tokyo's Narita International Airport just 53 minutes before the Air India plane crashed. Speculation that the two events were connected was fed by the timing, the fact that both flights had originated in Canada and suspicions that Sikh extremists might have engineered the incidents in order to strike out at the Indian government. But at week's end investigators were forced...
...Flight 003 as well as on a connecting Air India flight from Tokyo to Bombay. Ultimately, neither man boarded either plane, although L. Singh did check his luggage through in Vancouver. The reservation for the connecting Air India flight from Tokyo prompted speculation that the bomb that exploded at Narita Airport, possibly in L. Singh's luggage, was meant to go off aboard the Tokyo-Bombay flight, but had detonated prematurely. Reports in the Japanese press that a plastic explosive had caused the Narita blast and that Lal Singh's fingerprints had been found on luggage fragments were not confirmed...
...Tokyo, a bomb exploded at Narita Airport Sunday as luggage was being unloaded from a Canadian Pacific Boeing 747, which minutes before had arrived from Vancouver. Two airport workers were killed and four others injured. Less than an hour later, an Air India 747 en route from Toronto plunged into the sea off the Irish coast, and all 329 people aboard were feared dead. Authorities suspected that the otherwise inexplicable crash might have been triggered by a bomb. The international police organization Interpol began an investigation of possible links between the two incidents (see WORLD...
...between the blundering ways of man and the sometimes harsh, sometimes subtle efficiency with which a natural environment functions when left to its own devices. As the Mowat character, Charles Martin Smith plays with ingratiating innocence, stubborn and plucky. His art, like that of Ballard's cameraman, Hiro Narita, lies in understatement that does not imply dispassion. Ballard and his masterly crew of film makers have reimagined a corner of the natural world, metaphorically connecting the cold spaces and indifferent silences of a vast land with the heated struggle for existence taking place closer to the ground, nearer...