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...gaily colored Air Florida 737 jet from Miami had barely taxied to a halt at the Tegucigalpa airport when a column of trucks loaded with Honduran policemen careered across the runway to head it off. As police surrounded the aircraft, troops slithered down ropes from helicopters hovering overhead and flung themselves on the ground with rifles ready. The cause of their concern: the arrival of 40 clergywomen, the first planeload of 140 American and Canadian nuns and lay workers headed for a four-day prayerful protest against U.S. policy in Central America. The Honduran government barred the other 100 even...
...Iberia 727 carrying 84 passengers and nine crew members was roaring down the foggy runway at Madrid's Barajas Airport, taking off on a flight to Rome. Suddenly Captain Carlos Lopez Barranco glimpsed another plane rolling toward him on the runway. Desperately, he swerved right, but the left wing and a portion of the 727's fuselage slammed into the approaching Aviaco Airlines DC-9, which was taxiing out for a flight to the northern Spanish city of Santander...
Clearing the runway for these airlines was the industry deregulation in the late '70s. By giving all carriers more freedom in setting their routes and rates, deregulation made it possible and profitable for upstart outfits to search for gaps in the service provided by major trunk lines. Since 1978, at least 16 jet-flying passenger airlines have been launched, in contrast with none in the previous 20 years...
...game means is that this year Harvard had a better football team than yale. We can pride in that but tearing up the field implies that we want to prove something more. Everyone condemns the obscenity-hurling drunk who pours beer on the players as they run down the runway at Sullivan Stadium. He's on the fringe, he's out of control, but his attitudes aren't that unique. And before the goalposts fell on Saturday, that attitude sold a lot of "Yale Sucks" bats...
...November 1979 that Fidel Castro would help Grenada build a new "international airport," ostensibly to aid the island's tourist business. A Cuban construction brigade, using 85 pieces of Soviet heavy construction equipment, arrived in December to start the work. The airport's 10,000-ft. runway would be compatible with both tourist-laden jumbo jets and long-range military aircraft...