Word: planes
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...never seen anybody who has the same enthusiasm for developing resources for Harvard," Clakins says. "He would hear about an Arabian sheik who had some remote connection to Harvard, and he would hop on the next plane there...
...pariahs" forshooting down an American F-16 today, President Clinton then spent much of the day closeted with his national security advisors considering what action to take next. NATO officials have launched a massive search-and-rescue mission to locate the pilot, who was downed over northern Bosnia. The plane was flying at approximately 20,000 feet on an air patrol mission enforcing the no-fly zone overBosnian Serb territorywhen it was hit by a Russian SA-6 surface-to-air missile. Only the pilot was aboard. While it is not yet known whether he survived the crash, NATO sources...
NATO officials have launched a massive search-and-rescue mission to locate the pilot of an American F-16 fighter shot down this morning over northern Bosnia near the Bosnian Serb town of Banja Luka. The plane was flying at approximately 20,000 feet on an air patrol mission enforcing the no-fly zone over Bosnian Serb territory when it was hit by a Russian SA-6 surface-to-air missile. Only the pilot was aboard. It is not yet known whether he survived the crash. The Pentagon has not yet released his identity. This is the second time...
Diehl has many tales. Last year a C-130 cargo plane collided with an F-16 fighter jet over Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina, killing 24 people. The so-called composite-wing policy that grouped perhaps incompatible planes at the same base was not evaluated by investigators. It was the idea of General Merrill McPeak, the service's top officer before he retired last fall. "Other investigators felt this issue was at the crux of the accident, but dared not bring it up again," Diehl writes. Instead an air-traffic controller was blamed. The pilots involved have resumed...
...missile-tracking plane crashed after crewmen's wives climbed into both pilots' seats. They were encouraged by the Air Force to accompany their husbands on "spousal-orientation flights." "The wives were being allowed to sit in both pilots' seats, and one apparently maneuvered the controls, sending the aircraft out of control," Diehl says. From an altitude of 29,000 feet, the plane spiraled at 400 miles an hour for about 90 seconds before it hit a barley field. The last voice heard via radio was a woman's. "The [investigation] board decided they would report that one pilot seat...