Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aircraft was trying to land at East Midlands Airport near Nottingham, about 100 miles north of London, when it hit an embankment beside the highway, the airline said. The plane broke apart on impact...
After the plane hit the embankment at 8:30 (GMT), the tail section embedded in the ground and the fuselage broke away and was scattered over nearby fields, said Inspector Neville Cotterill of the police in the city of Leicester...
...said there were "considerable injuries," but he said no cars were known to have been hit as the plane thundered alongside the M1, England's main north-south highway. The highway remained partly open to traffic, he said...
...undershot the runway," Bishop said. He said the company had taken delivery of the plane only 12 weeks...
...London's Heathrow Airport. Two pieces of the container's framework were pitted and showed other signs that a "high-performance plastic explosive" had erupted near them. Scotland Yard's antiterrorism branch and the FBI jointly assumed the difficult task of finding out how the bomb got on the plane...