Word: planes
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There was almost no warning last week before a giant C-130 transport plane of the Kentucky Air National Guard plummeted into a restaurant and motel in Evansville, Ind., and then exploded in a giant fireball. Sixteen people were killed in the crash, including the five crewmen aboard the plane, two workers at JoJo's restaurant, and nine people at the adjacent Drury Inn motel, all of them employees of a plumbing-supply company, who were gathered in a fourth- floor conference room...
Siding with Vu, council veteran Dan H. Tabak '92 argued during the debate that spending money on a plane ticket, which Vu said had never happened before, would set a bad precedent for future councils...
...only reason I took the risk of funding this myself is because I have a specific agenda I want to accomplish," said Reyes, who had already reserved the plane ticket last Monday...
...political thunderclap last week with the arrival of George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. His organization has carried out airliner hijackings and bloody terrorist attacks in France, Israel and elsewhere since the late 1960s, including the 1976 hijacking of an Air France plane to Uganda that was liberated by Israeli troops. Yet Habash, 65, was routinely admitted to the country and the hospital for treatment of a stroke he suffered in Tunis...
Johnson said, "It's like building a plane while flying it at 8000 feet...