Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Biamby, now thought to be the strongest of the trio; and police chief Michel Francois, once the chief tough guy. The Americans could only negotiate on "the modalities" of getting the three out of the country: how many family members each leader could take with him, how big a plane he would need, when it would take off and where it would go. If they could not decide by Sunday noon, Carter, Nunn and Powell were to come home and the invasion would proceed -- perhaps as early as the wee hours of Monday morning. But on Saturday, as they anxiously...
...wind shear that hit the plane was one of the strongest ever recorded, a NASA aeronautics engineer, Dr. Fred Proctor, told The Charlotte Observer...
...improved in other ways. But all such discussions keep coming back to a point conceded by some of the sharpest critics: a passenger runs a far greater risk of injury or death getting into a car to drive to an airport than he or she does boarding a plane once there...
...just a few minutes before landing at the Pittsburgh airport. All 132 people aboard perished in the crash, the reasons for which were not clear. The crew's frantic last words -- "Oh God Traffic emergency!" -- indicated trouble but were not specific. Investigators are hoping that flight data from the plane's black box will provide further clues...
...Force brought 26 charges of negligent homicide and two charges of dereliction of duty against the senior F-15 pilot involved in the downing of two U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq last April. Also charged with dereliction of duty were five members of an AWACs radar-plane crew. Twenty-six people died in the tragedy...