Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Royal Brunei airliner landed in Frankfurt after a 12-hour flight. Leeson had left Kuala Lumpur to rendezvous with his wife Lisa in the Malaysian resort town of Kota Kinabalu, and there, after plunking down $1,600 in cash for seats in the economy section, he boarded the plane in his own name. Malaysian authorities just missed catching up with the Leesons. But reports of their flight immediately circulated abroad. In Frankfurt, German police, carrying pictures of the couple, boarded the plane and took the Leesons into custody. After drinking some tea, Nick Leeson asked for a lawyer and telephoned...
Uncle Leo's son, Paul, apes the crop-dusting sequence from Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" far too many times. Elaine tries to run him over in her airplane, milking the circling plane and fleeing victim sequence for its last drop of emotion. The scene exemplifies one of "Arizona Dream's" largest problems: it dwells too long on its once-witty gags...
...teenager finds a postcard with hundreds of people at a beach. She waves it over her head and races toward the cockpit, ignoring the flight attendant who asks her to slow down. People chuckle and briefcases and wallets close all over the plane...
Before the plane even levels off and reaches cruising altitude, people are trading stories: skiing stories in the winter, camping stories in the summer...
Dinner trays have been picked up, in-flight magazines have been read, and the plane is too small to have a movie screen. People are listless and more than a little bored...