Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charms, Lucky proved too rambunctious for the presidential mansion and was shipped off to permanent exile last Thanksgiving. After her final flight aboard Air Force One, Lucky stormed down the gangway in full view of TV cameras and, characteristically, relieved herself on the Point Mugu Naval Air Station tarmac...
...dawn last Friday, Pan American World Airways Flight 73 had touched down at Pakistan's Karachi International Airport on a scheduled, 21-hour flight from Bombay to Frankfurt and New York. Eighteen hours later, a few minutes before 10 p.m. Friday, the 747 jumbo jet still stood on the tarmac, but by then at least 17 of the plane's estimated 400 passengers and crew members were dead, victims of a hijacking and a subsequent firefight. About 125 more were injured, some critically. Of the four Palestinian terrorists who had commandeered the plane, all were in custody, including...
Dozens of others, suffering from shock and injury, milled around the tarmac. Some of the more seriously wounded lay on the pavement. As ambulances arrived, security personnel frantically waved them to a halt, then loaded them with the injured and dying. When rescue workers ran out of ambulances, they pressed pickup trucks into service, and these joined the long line of vehicles heading toward local hospitals...
...Vienna, Va.: "They were shouting at us in pitch darkness, and then we totally panicked when they threw a hand grenade at the passengers." At that point, said British Passenger Michael Thexton, "everyone made a dash for it. I climbed out onto a wing and jumped down onto the tarmac and ran." Catherine Dumas, of Lafayette, N.J., who escaped the plane without a scratch but suffered a sprained ankle when a nervous ambulance driver ran over her foot, called the scramble "one of those Three Stooges comedy situations." By that time the Pakistani commandos | were moving in on the plane...
...looms up out of the cactus and tumbleweed like a vast tombstone: a sprawling airplane hangar, 60,000 sq. ft., large enough to house a 747, edging up to the shimmering tarmac of a remote airfield in the Arizona desert, 90 miles southeast of Phoenix. On a wall within is a 4 ft.-by-3 ft. plaque that reads "George Arntzen Doole (1909-1985). Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors of Air America Inc., Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited." The plaque is the only memorial to a man who created and ran what was once...