Word: overflew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aboard, the precise circumstances of the tragedy remain a mystery. Last week an anonymous author in the British magazine Defence Attaché accused the U.S. of accidentally provoking the attack by using the airliner to gather intelligence about Soviet air defenses. The plane, the author said, deliberately overflew Soviet territory in order to test Soviet reflexes as the space shuttle Challenger and a U.S. Ferret-D electronic data-gathering satellite watched from above...
...flew in from Phoenix by way of the Pole. The trip north across Canada required seven hops, and on July 31, after 10 hr. 1 min. of dodging cirrus clouds to avoid icing, Taylor became the first person to reach the Pole in a plane so small. "I overflew it, identified it, took some pictures and got the hell out," he said. "That's a really weird place...