Word: tarmac
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...Elizabeth were settled comfortably into first class on a United Airlines flight to Washington. The 757 began its rapid roll to take off. Moments before, an AeroMexico jet had mistakenly begun to cross that very runway on its way to the terminal. As the United plane hurtled down the tarmac, the pilots were startled to see the AeroMexico plane wandering into their path. The United captain reacted quickly, abruptly pulling the jetliner's nose off the ground. His plane, with 133 passengers on board, avoided the AeroMexico plane by 100 feet...
...take some small steps to make runways safer. Garvey says a regional airport manager told her to make sure the lights in airports were washed more frequently, and she intends to do that. The FAA has also installed bigger and brighter signs, embedded lights in the tarmac pavement and painted more lines on taxiways. And last week, as part of Garvey's new commitment to the issue, the FAA announced programs to provide refresher training for controllers and to encourage pilots to come forward to report runway incursions...
...cheap jacket and tie - were also strapping on large side arms and testing their mikes. Presumably some sort of covert backup. The soldiers behind them were standing, guns at the ready, in full Spetsnaz battle dress, as if they were somehow expecting us to be attacked on the tarmac of the largest Russian base in the North Caucasus. Koshman clearly takes no chances. We landed between a line of helicopter gunships to our left and fighter bombers to our right. Koshman - who, we had been told, was our guide for the week - said hello and left. We never...
...Laughlin, a Dominican sister and president of Miami's Barry University, prove there were no trapdoors in her house from which agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service could jump out to seize the boy. Then when the grandmothers landed in Miami, their Cuban handlers kept them on the tarmac for an hour to deliver words of warning. Beware, they told the 51-year-old matriarchs: Miami's Cuban exiles may try to hurt...
...crisis sparked by the hijacking of an Indian Air flight at the end of December ended with a negotiated settlement and the loss of only one life. Despite the broader policy and philosophical problems raised by negotiating with terrorists, cool heads and calm negotiation saved many lives on the tarmac in Kandahar, Afghanistan...