Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the released passengers left the plane, a hijacker told the tower they were two Palestinians with Jordanian passports and 10 others of unannounced nationality who were sick, poor or whose families had numerous children...
Three members of Kuwait's ruling family, Fadel Khaled al-Sabah and his sisters Anware and Ebtesam, still were on the plane, said freed hostage, Dr. George Olympios at Larnaca General Hospital...
Earlier in the day, the gunmen said they had donned "death shrouds" and had dubbed the jetliner "the plane of martyrdom...
...passengers walked off the aircraft at 10:25 p.m. (3:25 p.m. EDT) and got into three ambulances as the flashing lights from the plane and the emergency vehicles illuminated the runway...
...more than a decade, West German environmentalists have warned of a major nuclear disaster if, for example, a plane were to crash into an atomic plant. Aware of the fact that more NATO air maneuvers take place in their skies than in those of any other alliance partner, West Germans had more cause than ever to fear the unthinkable last week. A French air force Mirage F1 fighter based in Strasbourg and flying in an exercise above southern Germany crashed and exploded in a wooded area about a mile from two nuclear power plants outside the village of Reichersdorf...