Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sisters eventually departed from New York at 7 p.m., having waited more than three hours for a plane...
...know they can land these things pretty much automatically," added Lee, who was seated in an exit row, "but just not being able to see what was happening--I was just thinking that it would be a really bad thing if a plane landed on top of us because it couldn...
...came out a little slow," captain Ashlin Halfnight said. "Blame that on the plane legs or something, but I thought that we played very well and I think that we deserved...
...downing of TWA Flight 800 brought Americans monumental and collective grief, stopped the meaningless noise for a moment and reduced the isolation. On the beaches of Long Island, near where the plane plunged into the Atlantic, citizens from all backgrounds walked solemnly among the washed-up detritus of the crash--the serving trays, eyeglasses, baseball caps and sweaters--and would not swim in the sorrowful ocean...
...week after the phone call, Richardson and a State Department team were flying over Gogrial, where tires had to be cleared from a dirt airfield below so they could land. "I get out of the plane, and it's a surreal scene from a Tarzan movie," the Congressman recalls. A delegation of threadbare Dinka fighters from Kerubino's army lined up to greet him. Richardson had on a tie and the same blazer he'd worn for good luck in every other hostage negotiation...