Word: plane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the wreckage of the fallen planes had stopped smoldering, John Reed, director of the National Transportation Safety Board, led a team of 68 investigators to the scene. Why was the private plane, carrying two Springfield, Mo., businessmen and flown by Veteran Pilot David Addison of Lebanon, Mo., twelve miles off course at the time of the collision? When Addi son reached a point southeast of the Asheville-Hendersonville Airport, he had been instructed to turn north, then report in for final landing instructions...
Addison acknowledged the message, but never made the northward turn-whether for lack of time, out of misunderstanding of the instruction, or because of a mechanical malfunction may never be known. When the collision occurred, at one minute after noon, the Piedmont Airlines plane, which had just left the airport, was climbing right on course...
...three Viet Cong defectors, one of them Be's cousin, have identified Be as the Communist hero. The U.S. has dropped millions of leaflets aimed at the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, showing a healthy Nguyen Van Be holding Hanoi newspaper accounts of his vaunted end, have sent planes over Viet Cong areas broadcasting Be's voice. It was after such a plane passed over him that Be's cousin, Nguyen Va Ba, decided to defect. "I put my shovel down," he says, "and listened to the voice very carefully. I found...
...forts went largely unnoticed. Thus, followed to the very end by the unpopularity that had been his lot in three years as an honest but uncharismatic President of Brazil, Humberto Castello Branco last week went to his grave at the age of 66, victim of a plane crash in the fifth month of his retirement. Said former Planning Minister Roberto Campos in a eulogy: "He had an aversion to easy promises and theatricalized results. He deeply dreaded creating false hopes in the people. He preferred to accustom the people to the discipline of truth...
...spent most of his time with his family, was seen now and then at the opera in Rio, and took occasional trips to visit old friends. It was on such a trip last week that a small Piper Aztec in which he was flying collided with a jet training plane in the northeastern state of Ceara killing Castello, his brother and three others, including the pilot...