Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feet above the North Atlantic, about 120 miles southwest of the Irish coast. The tower gave clearance to proceed to London's Heathrow Airport for refueling, and the crew promised to report back before landing. Then, just six minutes later, the Boeing 747 suddenly disappeared from radar screens. "One second it was there, and the next it was gone," said one Shannon air trafficker. "We are totally baffled." Less than two hours later, a merchant vessel in the area reported that uninflated life vests and bodies were scattered across the gray sea. All 307 passengers and 22 crew members were...
After the Air India plane dropped off radar screens, a full-scale rescue mission was carried out at the scene of the crash. Within half an hour of the plane's disappearance, centers had been set up in Britain and Ireland to coordinate a giant rescue team that included 14 helicopters, four reconnaissance planes and a fleet of more than a dozen military and merchant vessels. By early evening the workers had picked up 144 bodies and airlifted them to Cork, where Irish authorities set up a special mortuary. The possibility of anyone's surviving was remote. One rescue spotter...
...pilot had lost all four engines simultaneously, aviation sources pointed out, he could have sent a distress signal and possibly continued to glide for 30 minutes. And even if his power source had been cut, he could have used a backup system. In addition, officials observed, sudden disappearances from radar and crashes at sea are very rare. Never before has a commercial jet crossing the Atlantic plunged into the ocean...
...swap since World War II, the result of talks among six nations: the U.S., East and West Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and the Soviet Union. Negotiations began after Polish Spy Marian Zacharski was sentenced to life in prison in 1981 for buying classified documents from a Hughes Aircraft Co. radar engineer. Poland let the U.S. know it wanted him back. In 1983 Alfred Zehe, a Dresden physicist, was arrested in Boston for buying classified information from a Navy employee cooperating with the FBI. East Germany then entered the talks through Wolfgang Vogel, an East German lawyer who helped engineer...
Reagan made some major concessions to round up a majority in the Democratic-controlled House. U.S. aid to the contras will be limited to humanitarian supplies, such as food and medicine. Even defensive military equipment like radar is precluded in the House plan, though such items may be permitted in the Senate version. Restrictions on how U.S. aid can be used are largely technicalities, however, since the contras can now divert funds from nonlethal supplies to the purchase of more military goods...