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...cost the agency $7.53 on average to transport a Night Owl customer, compared with only $1.37 for a daytime bus rider, and no more than $1.40 for a subway patron (the actual price for a daytime bus ride is 90 cents and $1.25 for a subway fare...
...whole, the air-transport system can be proud of a fine safety record. The scheduled airlines of the Western world have suffered 138 fatal accidents in the past 25 years while flying 135 million aircraft hours--a rate that works out to one accident for the industry for every 978,000 hours in the air. Most planes are well maintained and skillfully operated. Yet there is room for improvement. Says C.O. Miller, president of System Safety, a Virginia consulting firm that has frequently been critical of airline practices: "Overall, I would say that the general quality of aviation...
Prosecutors said the undone deals involve a veritable supermarket of weaponry: 18 F-4 and 13 F-5 fighter aircraft, five C-130E transport planes, more than 20 helicopters and thousands of missiles. Iran spent $17 billion on U.S. military equipment under the Shah in the 1970s, and is desperate to get new supplies and parts to continue waging its 5˝-year war of attrition with Iraq. It stands ready to deal with anyone who can deliver...
...fated flight began at Ilopango military base, on the outskirts of San Salvador. The camouflaged Viet Nam-era C-123K air transport, with Panamanian registration HPF821, lifted off late Sunday morning with four crewmen aboard, droned south over the Pacific Ocean, then headed east near the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border. About 60 miles inland, the plane veered northeast toward the Nicaraguan garrison town of San Carlos. According to Nicaraguan accounts, as the craft dropped down to 2,500 ft. and prepared to discharge its cargo, a 19-year-old Sandinista soldier, José Fernando Corales Aleman, raised his shoulder-held, Soviet...
There was plenty of reason to believe, however, that U.S. officials were dissembling. Cooper carried an identification card issued by Southern Air Transport, a Miami-based corporation once owned by the CIA and known still to have links to the agency. The firm denied involvement in the attempted arms delivery, although it admitted once employing Cooper as a pilot. Hasenfus and Sawyer held ID cards issued by the Salvadoran army that identified them as military advisers...