Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tokyo, FAA officials, along with other U.S. experts, have gathered to assist in the investigation of the Aug. 12 crash of Japan Air Lines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 similar to many flown by U.S. carriers. A 60-page preliminary report released last week by Japan's Transport Ministry provided a dramatic transcript of voice recordings made during the doomed 45-minute flight of JAL 123. The report, however, failed to establish the cause of "the unusual impact" that crippled the vertical stabilizer and caused the plane to crash into a remote mountainside, killing 520 of the 524 people aboard...
...expulsion of 700,000 illegal immigrants from neighboring African states, jailed hundreds of political opponents and muzzled a once aggressive press. He also soured Nigeria's relations with its former colonial master, Britain, with a clumsy attempt in July 1984 to kidnap President Shagari's brother-in-law, former Transport Minister Umaru Dikko, and ship him from London to Lagos in a wooden crate...
...country's woes. In 1983 alone, according to Oil Minister Tam David-West, $1 billion in petroleum was secretly diverted from state oil terminals to foreign tankers, with Nigerian businessmen and politicians taking the profits. Some reports say $1 million a day was skimmed from the public treasury. Transport Minister Dikko reportedly amassed a $1 billion fortune, much of it outside the country...
...soon they were on their way back to a schoolyard in an Amal-controlled neighborhood in Beirut. Waiting for them were at least ten Red Cross vehicles that would take them to Damascus, where a U.S. Air Force C-141 StarLifter transport was ready to fly them to West Germany and freedom after 17 days of the televised Terrorist Suspense Spectacular...
...crashed, and a time-release bomb might have been designed to go off during the stop at London, where there is a large international press corps. The motives for the explosion in Japan were more mysterious; again, no one immediately claimed responsibility. As this week began, the International Air Transport Association called an emergency meeting in Montreal. Meanwhile, the international police organization Interpol was reportedly investigating both disasters and possible links between them...