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...basic problem is that responsibility is divided among numerous government bureaucracies, each of which can hold up changes for years. Italy hopes to invest $580 million in improvements, including a third runway to be completed next February. If all these are accomplished by 1974, the airport will theoretically be able to handle the 9,000,000 passengers who struggle their way through Fiumicino now, but by that time traffic is expected to reach 12 million a year...
Forsyth has enormous trouble getting all this together and rumbling down the runway fast enough for takeoff. But finally, on page 189, the reporter's search turns into a good, old-fashioned chase, with the bad SS guys hop-skipping along after him trying to head...
Acrobatics. In late October a member of the St. Petersburg city council asked the Times to prepare a pro-con page on a proposed runway extension to accommodate private jets at the city's small airstrip, an issue that was coming up for council consideration. The Times complied, presented reasons for and against the expansion, then opposed it editorially. Ultimately, the council approved the project, but at least the Times editorial page has begun to earn the kind of attention Pittman desired...
...panic the hijackers, who shot and wounded Copilot Billy H. Johnson. Taxiing on nothing but rims wrapped in tattered rubber, the veteran pilot, Captain William R. Haas, 39, miraculously got the plane off the ground. He was again ordered to Cuba, where he set down on a foam-covered runway at José Martí. Cuban authorities immediately confiscated the money and led the hijackers away. The passengers and crew were flown back to Miami. Their 29 hours of terror were ended...
...long, slim jetliner was trying to land at night in heavy rain at Sheremetyevo Airport, 18 miles northwest of Moscow, and by some accounts was making its fourth pass at the runway. Villagers in the nearby hamlet of Krasnaya Polyana (Red Glade) suddenly heard a series of explosions. Tramping by torchlight across muddy potato fields, they found the red and silver tail of the Aeroflot Ilyushin-62 sticking out of a cold brown pond. Beneath the water, or on the fields across which the plane had skidded, were the bodies of all the passengers and crew. Unofficial reports indicated that...