Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sight and descended. The Maputo airport was actually 45 miles away; the pilot may have mistaken the lights of Komatipoort for it. Moments later, about 600 ft. inside South Africa, the plane hit treetops and cartwheeled down a rainswept hillside. Among those killed, in addition to Machel, were Transport Minister Alcantara Santos, Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Lobo and the Ambassadors to Mozambique from Zambia and Zaire...
Another number listed on the bills belonged to Southern Air Transport Inc. of Miami, a onetime CIA-owned company which had employed one of two American pilots killed when a C-123 cargo plane was shot down over southern Nicaragua on October...
...angry tone of the congressional hearing underscored the deepening mystery surrounding the downed Fairchild C-123K transport, which was carrying tons of arms and supplies to the contra rebels for their simmering U.S.-backed war with the Marxist-oriented Sandinistas. The jungle plane crash cast tantalizing light over the shadowy world of U.S. gunrunners in Central America -- and raised serious questions about the extent and legality of U.S. involvement there...
South Africa's Bureau for Information said the Soviet pilot and nine other people survived the crash. Among the senior officials killed was Transport Minister Luis Alcantara Santos, it said...
...imposition of sanctions would result in retaliatory measures from Pretoria. South Africa would not only refuse to import any more American wheat (it bought 256,000 tons in the year ending last June) but also block grain deliveries to neighboring black states that depend on South Africa for commercial transport. Both Senators had been buttonholed near the Senate cloakroom by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, a friend of Botha's and a ) leading foe of sanctions, who proceeded to put them in touch with the Foreign Minister on a cloakroom telephone...