Word: pan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Just a day after last Wednesday's near disaster over the North Atlantic, a Pan American jet and a Venezuelan airliner came within 300 ft. of each other as they flew near Bermuda. An air-traffic controller apparently put the two planes at the same altitude -- about 39,000 ft. -- by mistake...
...least some of the safety worries stem from the penurious attitude that airlines have been forced to adopt because of the low fares they have been charging. One area in which airlines may be tempted to cut back is aircraft maintenance, and several airlines -- among them American, Eastern and Pan Am -- have received hefty fines for violations of federal regulations. Even so, the FAA has been slow to step up its inspections in keeping with the growth of airline fleets, according to a General Accounting Office study published in May. From 1981 until 1983 the ranks of FAA inspectors actually...
...crucial task for the transatlantic traveler is to track down the cheapest possible airline ticket. Because of heavy competition between Pan Am, TWA, British Airways and other carriers, there is excess capacity on some routes. Nonstop flights now depart daily from more than a dozen U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Miami, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Dallas. Next week Continental Airlines will take off over the Atlantic with its Newark-Paris service. The airline is opening with a three-month giveaway: for just $1 more than the basic $667 roundtrip coach fare, Continental will throw in five nights in a three-star Paris...
DIED. Richard Roth Sr., 82, New York City architect and chairman of the board of Emery Roth & Sons, the firm that helped transform the Manhattan skyline with such glass-and-steel monoliths as the World Trade Center towers (1973) and the Pan Am Building (1963); of a heart attack; in New York City...
...Minister of Barbados, who led his Caribbean country to independence from Britain in 1966 and served three times as Prime Minister, helping to make Barbados one of the region's most stable nations; of a heart attack, after suffering from diabetes; in Bridgetown. An advocate of economic diversification and pan- Caribbean cooperation, Barrow criticized the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada...