Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours that followed, those who saw him say Simpson did not behave like a killer. He caught the 11:45 flight to Chicago for a meeting with Hertz executives and ran into an old acquaintance, photographer Howard Bingham, on the plane. They chatted, mainly about golf, and O.J. seemed in a cheery mood. "I did not notice anything out of the ordinary," Bingham said, astounded when he heard the news later. Employees at the O'Hare Plaza Hotel said Simpson arrived at dawn, tired but upbeat. He hung around the front desk for a few minutes, joking with the staff...
...death of the President blew the lid off simmering ethnic and political rivalries in the tiny Central African country. Hutu government soldiers and militia blamed the mainly Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front for shooting down the plane; the rebels and others suspected hawkish extremists within Habyarimana's presidential guard. The same night, the massacres in the streets of Kigali began as Hutu sought revenge. Eight weeks and several hundred thousand lives later, the true cause of the crash is still a mystery...
...called Prairie Earth, I think,by William Heat Moon or Half Moon or something.And there was a story in it about Knute Rockne andhow he was in a plane that collided in mid-airwith another plane. Everyone died, there were bodyparts everywhere, and since it took the ambulancelike an hour to get to the scene people pillagedthe seats and cushions. They might also havestolen body parts. They never found certain partsof Knute Rockne...
...happiest memories in the Navy waswhen I was entrusted to fly the plane from Newark,over Philadelphia and Washington, down to SouthCarolina," she says. "It was very beautiful. Allthe lights were coming on, and the sun wassetting. It was very mysterious and beautiful...
...worst plane crash in China's history killed 160 today, raising more concerns that the booming air-transit business there is understaffed and poorly equipped. The Chinese airline industry has long had a troubling safety record, made worse in recent years by a proliferation of used Russian aircraft in its fleets. Today's tragedy, which included two American passengers, involved a Soviet made...