Word: taxiway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result was a degree of paralysis that few nations ever experience. For three days last week, Bangladesh's only transportation link with the outside world was a pair of aging Fokker Friendship propjets that took off from a relatively short taxiway at Dhaka's otherwise flooded international airport, carrying small loads of passengers to and from Calcutta. Roads and railways were cut, and even ferryboats stopped running, because their terminals were flooded. At one point, only a handful of helicopters connected the capital with the rest of the country. By week's end, as the floodwaters started to recede...
Executives say they are spending too much valuable time waiting on the taxiway. In a poll of 461 members of the Executive Committee, a group of presidents and chief executives, 36% said they have lost job efficiency because of air-travel delays. To be sure of arriving on time at a meeting in another city, many business travelers take the precaution of flying the night before their appointment, saddling their company with the additional cost of a hotel room...
...fuss at Eastern drew attention away from Delta's continuing bad luck. At Los Angeles International Airport, a SkyWest commuter plane collided on a taxiway with a Delta 767. Both planes were damaged, but no one was injured. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear. Meanwhile, two Delta jets had to make unscheduled landings: a 727 flying from Calgary, Alta., to Salt Lake City touched down in Great Falls, Mont., because of a pressurization problem, and an Atlanta-bound DC-8 returned to Las Vegas after it developed engine trouble...
...Northwest DC-10 was speeding toward takeoff at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport when the warning came from the flight engineer: "There's a whale on the runway!" Another Northwest wide-bodied DC-10 had just left a taxiway and poked its nose into the path of the oncoming plane. "I see it," replied the amazingly cool captain of the departing aircraft. He abruptly jerked his jumbo jet into the air. His wing cleared the fuselage of the crossing plane by a mere 50 ft. There were 501 people on the two jets. They had barely avoided what would have...
After the commandos were ordered by Washington to stand down, Stiner refused to give up entirely. When the 737 took off for Rome 17 hours later, carrying Abbas and another Palestinian official, Stiner hopped into a T-39 trainer jet. He took off from a taxiway without tower permission and shadowed the 737 to Rome, where he made an emergency landing. In his resignation speech last week, Prime Minister Bettino Craxi announced that Italy had filed a protest over both the T-39's landing and the pursuit of the 737 by an F-14 to within 25 miles...