Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said there was no sign of the plane's fate by nightfall, more than five hours after contact was lost...
...airline said it believed the search focused on Niger, along the path the plane would have taken, and could involve military forces from Chad, Niger and France, which has a small force in Chad...
...last radio contact between the plane and air traffic controllers, 40 to 50 minutes after leaving the airport at N'Djamena, indicated that everything was normal, the airline said...
...said that would be enough flight time to take the plane over the border into neighboring Niger. It reported no unusual weather in the area at the time...
Flying high above the verdant Amazon jungle, TIME correspondent Eugene Linden experienced a kind of epiphany. "I had thoughts oddly similar to those I had when I flew in a small plane across the Arctic -- a sense of reassurance that the world still contained places so immense and so empty of people," recalls Linden, who wrote this week's cover story. "But while the emptiness of the Arctic is austere, the forest canopy that seems to extend into infinity is choked with life...