Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran can ill afford a direct clash with the U.S. Not only would Tehran have little chance of winning, but a fight would drain vital resources from the all important war against Iraq. Still, Western military analysts are worried about a possible suicide bomb attack from an explosives-packed plane or boat...
WASHINGTON--A. U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighter fired a missile over the weekend at a suspected Iranian jet fighter that appeared to be making "hostile moves" toward an American surveillance plane, administration sources said yesterday...
According to the sources, Navy jet fighters attached to the aircraft carrier Constellation were already in the air when a Navy P-3 Orion surveillance plane reported that its radar indicated it was being approached by several airplanes...
...notified the FAA of problems with Eastern's maintenance procedures, including the fact that some repairs were not recorded in the mechanics' logbooks. In one instance last May, says King, his supervisor did not want to record a fuel leak on an Airbus A-300 jet because the plane might have to be taken out of service. King secretly made a tape of the supervisor's words: "I have no chance to move this aircraft with this stinking item in the logbook . . . We don't want any showstoppers. We want the plane to fly away." The leak was repaired, King...
...fuss at Eastern drew attention away from Delta's continuing bad luck. At Los Angeles International Airport, a SkyWest commuter plane collided on a taxiway with a Delta 767. Both planes were damaged, but no one was injured. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear. Meanwhile, two Delta jets had to make unscheduled landings: a 727 flying from Calgary, Alta., to Salt Lake City touched down in Great Falls, Mont., because of a pressurization problem, and an Atlanta-bound DC-8 returned to Las Vegas after it developed engine trouble...