Word: plane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perishing. In Apache (1954), Burt Lancaster was first killed, then allowed to live on. What's Up Doc? (1972) initially ended with a bittersweet goodbye between Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand at an airport, but by the time the film was released Barbra was on the plane and cuddling with Ryan. Irene Dunne died heroically in A Guy Named Joe (1943) and joined Spencer Tracy in heaven, but came back to life after MGM ordered a new finish. Tracy stayed dead...
...jetliner, owned by Global International Airlines of Kansas City, had been hired for $89,000 by a Belgian company called Young Air Cargo. The plane left Beirut for Costa Rica supposedly carrying 60,000 Ibs. of medical supplies. The 707's pilot, Paul Marable, 58, thought it odd that anyone would be flying that kind of cargo from war-torn Lebanon across the Atlantic...
Before takeoff, Marable briefly examined several of the cardboard cartons aboard his plane; they were reassuringly marked with the imprint of the Lebanese Red Crescent, supposedly an equivalent of the Red Cross, although as it happens, no Lebanese organization by that exact name exists. Also on the plane were four passengers who carried false Jordanian and Libyan passports...
Marable then made an unscheduled stop at Tunis. The plane was so heavily loaded that on landing it narrowly missed the control tower. Once on the ground, it was quickly surrounded by soldiers. The mysterious passengers disappeared. After 24 hours of negotiation between the U.S and Tunisian governments, the plane was unloaded, and Marable and his crew were permitted to fly the empty craft to Amsterdam...
...plane approached Tunis, where it was scheduled to take on more medical supplies, the control tower of Tunis-Carthage Airport diverted it to the Sidi Ahmed military airbase at Bizerte, about 40 miles away. The following day, after spending the night in a nearby hotel, Marable returned to his plane to discover that he had 105,000 Ibs. of cargo aboard-15,000 Ibs. more than the plane is certified to carry. The pilot could see immediately that the new cargo contained weapons and ammunition. He explained to his passengers that he needed to make some repairs...