Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that moment a man in a ski mask burst into the cockpit with an AK-47. I knew something was wrong, because it wasn't even cold out. "I am seizing this plane," he said. "We are going to Beirut. Praise...
Suddenly a dangerous-looking character clutching two pinless grenades rushed in. "This plane is going to Sri Lanka," he explained...
...after a brief delay during which we arranged for a pilot to fly the plane, we jetted off to share the American Way with the crack suicide troops of Iran's Revolutionary Guards...
...husband at dinner, the former Sarah Ferguson took advantage of the gift of the Oxford Air Training School, and has already spent four weeks studying for her pilot's license. Last week "Chatterbox One" -- so named by local air-traffic controllers because she chatters away on the plane's radio during lessons -- completed her first solo flight, a full circle of the R.A.F.'s Benson airfield in Oxfordshire. When she'd landed, Fergie bounced happily out of the aircraft and phoned Prince Andrew, who, between his wife's giggles, pronounced he was "absolutely delighted." Fergie also received kudos over...
Nowhere is the traffic heavier than in Starr County, a remote, Rhode Island- size expanse of gentle hills that flanks the Rio Grande southeast of Laredo. From heavily armed safe houses in tiny riverfront hamlets, smugglers oversee the packaging and shipment of drugs by truck and plane into the U.S. interior...