Word: sabena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...makeshift administration building and two hangars), so the Authority did no more than try to contain the airlines' rebellion. It canceled the operating permits at La Guardia of such foreign lines as Peruvian International Airways, Scandinavian Airlines system, K.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlines), Linea Aeropostal Venezolana, Air France and Sabena (Belgian Airlines), in effect forcing them to accept its invitation to move to Idlewild. Domestic airlines which had their eyes on New Jersey's Teterboro Air Terminal (20 minutes from Manhattan) found that the Authority had got there first with a good...
...will take to the air again this week. Douglas Aircraft Co. said it had caught the bugs that had caused two plane fires (and the death of 52) last fall and grounded the planes. American Airlines will resume its DC-6 transcontinental flights; United, National, Braniff, Panagra and Sabena will begin to put their planes in service soon afterwards...
There was only one possible method of burial. Sober-faced workmen packed 300 pounds of dynamite to the cliff, tamped it into the rock, set it off. An avalanche rumbled down. As had been done after the recent Newfoundland crash of a Belgian Sabena airliner, a Catholic priest, a Protestant clergyman and a Jewish rabbi read burial services from a plane which circled overhead. Then the wilderness fell silent again...
...wreck was only 22 miles southwest of the great international airport at Gander. There, beset by fog, a Douglas Skymaster of the Belgian Sabena Lines had crashed one morning last week, New York-bound from Brussels. In the dense forest and quaking muskeg it might as well have been in the Congo. Swiftly and efficiently, one of the most complicated rescues in flying history got under...