Word: tarmac
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...illegal aliens, depleting its staff so quickly, according to airport sources, that one airport outlet had to be temporarily shut down. (McDonald's denies that it employed undocumented workers and says the closing was due to the voluntary departure of several employees.) Badges for people on the tarmac are checked constantly, and undercover agents occasionally walk about looking for suspicious sorts. But some question how useful all this scrutiny is. A private security guard checking IDs on a service road inside the airport seemed unsure which documents she was supposed to be examining and for what. "I keep getting conflicting...
...Brussels-bound Continental Airlines DC-10 flight which had just taken off from Newark International Airport. The right CF6 engine was seriously damaged when it suffered an uncontained failure. Last September, a US Airways CF6 engine undergoing a maintenance check blew apart and scattered parts across the tarmac and even into a nearby river...
Many airports have already shown progress in tightening security without resorting to discrimination. Some have reduced staff access to the tarmac and to x-rayed luggage in order to keep unauthorized baggage and passengers off of planes. And nearly all airports are demanding that x-ray operators scrutinize every package with great care—sometimes requiring each item to pass before several pairs of eyes...
...time off from his day job as James Bond. Both board the same Shanghai to Beijing flight. With that established in a couple of gulps, Zhang sets his camera firmly on the ground. In one kitsch-glorious shot (there are many in the film), the stewardesses stride across the tarmac as the pilots proudly await. We get close-up head shots and slow-mo: a collective cut-and-paste of every MTV-Bruckheimer gimmick served up in a few flickering seconds...
...vary the pace, Zhang tosses in some special effects as impressive as anything in Die Hard 2. When controller Liu tells airport authorities what would happen if the forced landing goes wrong, we view a wrenching simulation: the plane nose-dives into the tarmac and doesn't stop until it has ripped through a row of other planes and terminal buildings. By resisting the predictable, Zhang has rewritten the rules. Crash Landing is one giant leap for Chinese cinema. If you think you know China and you think you know movies, see it and think again...