Word: turboprop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disaster struck. Witnesses say black smoke belched from the aircraft's fuselage. Seconds later the plane was engulfed in a ball of fire, and villagers on the ground watched with horror as it plummeted to the earth, tumbling nose over tail like a toy as it fell. The huge turboprop bounced twice after hitting the sandy plain, then came down a third and final time, exploding on impact. All 30 people aboard were killed, including Zia, 64; Raphel, 45; Brigadier General Herbert Wassom, 49, the chief of the U.S. military mission in Pakistan; and five top Pakistani generals...
...riderless limos are not the only sign that the 1988 Jackson campaign is a far cry from the seat-of-the-pants, roller-coaster operation of 1984. The dilapidated Lockheed Electra turboprop (which later crashed) has been replaced by a DC-9, complete with computers. Schedules, just vague advisories in the last campaign, which ran on Jesse Jackson time (three hours behind all known time zones), are sometimes adhered to. Church choirs warming up the crowd are still crucial, but now so are the hard-nosed strategists busily color-coding districts on wall-size maps. "Eighty-four was a crusade...
Investigators shortly discovered some startling evidence: sugar had clogged the plane's fuel filter and may have stopped the turboprop engine. The FBI, investigating the apparent sabotage, indicated that revenge might have been the motive. Agents were weighing a possible link to an incident in Tennessee last month in which a smuggler loaded with $15 million worth of stolen cocaine was killed in a parachute jump. Beyond that, there were suggestions of a disturbing recklessness. The plane's owner, David Lee Williams of Atlanta, disregarded a mechanic's warning that the fuel was contaminated. He flew the craft...
...Provincetown-Boston Airline twin-engine turboprop took off just after 6 p.m. from Jacksonville International Airport for the short flight to Tampa. Within minutes the small commuter plane, one of 113 in P.B.A.'s fleet, apparently lost its tail section, slammed into a brush-bound clearing and burst into flames. The two-man crew and all eleven passengers were killed...
...British government is learning to beware of Americans bearing jobs. First, John De Lorean's sports-car venture went bankrupt in 1982, taking with it 2,600 Belfast jobs and $156 million in British financing. Now, development of the Lear Fan 2100 turboprop corporate plane has stalled, after burning up as much as $80 million in British aid. More than 90% of the 365 workers at the main Lear plant near Belfast got the news last week that they would be laid off July 1. Reason: the developers are low on cash and more than a year behind schedule...