Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that close call didn't come from its opponent Saturday--the Crimson had little trouble disposing of Penn--but on the plane that the Crimson took to Philadelphia...
While the plane was making its final approach to Philadelphia International Airport, it had problems with its landing gear. After circling the city for 45 minutes, the plane finally made an emergency landing--with the Crimson players in crash position...
...event," Harvard Co-Captain Kevin Jernigan said. "It was fun. Living on the edge gave me a new perspective on life. They could have saved a lot of trouble by just landing the plane--we wouldn't have ever known about the problem...
Associate Editor Tom Callahan, who wrote this week's cover story on Skipper Dennis Conner, faced his own logistical complications. After a 14-hour flight from Los Angeles, Callahan arrived in Sydney and immediately caught a plane to Perth. From there he headed directly to Fremantle harbor for a training session aboard Stars & Stripes. That experience may sound almost as turbulent as a go-around in the washing machine, but it left Callahan feeling exhilarated. "Conner is so at one with his crew, he barely has to give orders. It's really stirring to be on board with the greatest...
...country's northern provinces, promptly turned aid into a political tool. Government troops seized a food-laden ship to keep supplies from reaching the rebel-held north, where the famine was most severe. In Sudan, guerrillas battling Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi's regime shot down a passenger plane last August, killing 60 people, and threatened to shoot any relief aircraft that tried to land in the south, where some 2 million Sudanese needed food...