Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took off from a suburban Los Angeles airfield, flew into the restricted airspace that protects Los Angeles International Airport without informing controllers, and collided with an Aeromexico jetliner. Eighty-two people died. Last week a single-engine Mooney aircraft lifted off from a municipal airfield 15 miles south of Salt Lake City, intruded without warning into the restricted zone around the city's international airport, and struck a SkyWest commuter airliner. All ten people in the two planes were killed...
...crew in the SkyWest Metro and the pilot and flight instructor occupying the Mooney. A priority rule of flying, regardless of whether controllers are monitoring a flight, is that someone must always be watching for other air traffic. When the two planes collided about 2,400 ft. above the Salt Lake valley, visibility was 20 miles...
...Mooney pilot, moreover, had not checked in with controllers as required. "He busted the ARSA," said Don Moffit, a Salt Lake City tower manager, referring to the Airport Radar Service Area in which all planes must be directed by controllers...
Some efforts are being made to get children to shape up and eat right. The largest impact should come this fall; the federal school lunch program, which feeds 24 million students each day, is revising menus to reduce fat, sugar and salt. On local levels, some undertakings are informal. For example, the Sports Training Institute in New York City is setting up exercise pep talks by such legendary athletes as John Havlicek and Arthur Ashe. Other attempts are more structured. Dayton is experimenting with Gamefield Fitness Systems at 45 of the city's schools. Designed by the National Fitness Campaign...
...literary diet provided by her family was large and exotic, the food was anything but. "My maternal grandmother was in residence during most of my childhood, and she decided what we would eat. She believed in having only the simplest food -- always fish on Friday, very little meat, no salt, sugar or other seasonings, and absolutely no coffee." A great revelation concerning the wonders of food came in 1929, when Fisher, while in France, dined at the Hostellerie de la Poste in Avallon. "The dish that forever changed my idea about food was mashed potatoes, dripping with butter," she recalls...