Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ones to leave our vehicles behind." He adds, "I felt a sense of life preservation. I felt like I wanted to live." The separation was swift, as it had always been when a disciple chose to leave or was expelled. Do gave Sawyer $600 and a plane ticket to Phoenix, Arizona...
...show. As scores of Latin American officers and hundreds of civilians squinted into the sunny sky, an F-16 Falcon soared high up, then roared down in a kamikaze dive. A B-2 Stealth bomber flew over the Santiago fairground. A giant C-17 air cargo plane rumbled along the taxiway with a Chilean flag fluttering from a cockpit window. The State Department was furious with the stunts, but the air show accomplished exactly what the Pentagon had wanted. Within six months, Chile and Brazil had sent formal requests to Washington for information on buying F-16s and F/A-18s...
...Santa Fe cultists who believed the Hale-Bopp comet summoned them to heaven, or the one about Martin Luther King Jr.'s son Dexter visiting James Earl Ray and saying he thought him innocent of his father's murder, or the account of George Bush parachuting out of a plane because his only other jump was during World War II, when Japanese gunners shot up his torpedo bomber and he was forced to bail out over the Pacific, getting banged up and badly cut. In his autobiography he cited that event as "maybe the most important" in his life. This...
...adding that the Air Force was operating under the assumption that Button could still be alive. "I will only talk about search and rescue. . . We are interested in finding the pilot first of all and his airplane." Some 185 flights by dozens of aircraft ranging from U-2 spy planes to Army helicopters have joined the search, which as been slowed by severe weather. The Air Force has given up an earlier theory that the plane vered off course while on autopilot after radar data and visual sightings suggest that Button was in control of the plane. CNN has reported...
...crash of a missing Air Force military jet. Ever since Captain Craig Button's A-10 attack jet broke formation and disappeared over the Colorado mountains last week, loaded with 450-pound bombs, speculation has had it that the 32- year old pilot might have stolen the plane. New reports from skiers near New York mountain in the Rockies that they saw a black cloud and heard a loud noise are fueling rumors that the plane crashed there. The Air Force theory that the plane went off-course because Button put the plane on autopilot doesn't hold up, critics...