Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film opens as a group of American combat soldiers stand before a C-130 transport plane ready to carry them to the Vietnamese front. A voice from above the plane perhaps that of their sergeant tells them that they are the best soldiers that America has to offer and that they are about to go out and teach a bunch of "communist gooks" to respect America...
...Europe and Asia, some aviation experts have been critical of U.S. aviation practices. Japan's Ministry of Transport complained last month that mechanical problems had forced too many Northwest flights to return to Tokyo's Narita airport after takeoff, allegedly increasing congestion at the crowded facility. Last May a group of European airlines refused to take delivery of Boeing's new 747-400 jetliners until the company agreed to reinforce the cabin floors...
...noon yesterday, three C-140 transport planes unloaded about 150 soldiers from Fort Bragg and four-wheel drive vans for 60 FBI agents and 50 federal marshals who also arrived yesterday...
Government rules allow airlines the right to refuse transport to passengers whom they deemed to be "offensive." The allegedly malodorous pair were placed on a later flight, but Freeman is crying foul. She claims that USAir simply wanted to clear two seats on an overbooked plane, and has demanded an apology from the company's president plus the cost of two first-class tickets from New York to Los Angeles for the embarrassing episode. Says she: "On the next flight, I asked a woman if we smelled, and she said...
...commercial airliners being maintained properly? A barrage of questions about passenger-jet safety were raised last week in the midst of the busy summer travel season. The Air Transport Association, an industry trade group, reported that U.S. carriers are facing a serious shortage of mechanics even as demand for them is growing. Meanwhile, as if to point up the understaffing in the hangars, several airlines were forced to abort flights because of mechanical problems...