Tag: Aviation
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RESCUERS SEARCH IN VAIN FOR PLANE CRASH VICTIMS
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, January 2, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A08 Calmer waters Wednesday permitted a boat search of Rhode Island Sound, but rescue crews came up empty-handed in their attempt to locate a commuter airplane that vanished last week with three…
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HOMEMADE PLANE CRASHES; FRANKLIN LAKES MAN KILLED; CRAFT HIT CABLE OVER U.S. PARK
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Friday, October 25, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | 6 Star | NEWS | Page B03 A 26-year-old Franklin Lakes man was killed Wednesday when a single-engine plane he was flying over a national park hit a television cable, landed upside down in the Delaware River, and broke…
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AIRPORT DRUG BUST SETS RECORD 40 POUNDS OF HEROIN SEIZED
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, August 24, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03 Customs agents arrested two sisters arriving at Newark Airport from Sweden on Thursday with about 40 pounds of heroin, worth $18 million on the street, authorities said Friday. “This is the…
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COLUMN/SECOND LOOK: THE LANDING ON RUNWAY GWB
The George Washington Bridge has been the scene of many suicides, accidents, and odd happenings during its 60-year history. But even after a quarter-century, what happened on Dec. 26, 1965, stuns the imagination.
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BRIDGE CHIEF TAKES WING; TOP COP AT AIR HUBS IN NATION’S CAPITAL
The retired commander of the George Washington Bridge took down the awards and plaques adorning his office with a pang of sadness, but a few weeks later, he was hanging them up at his new job as police chief for Washington’s airports.
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DRUG CACHE USED TO LURE TRAFFICKING SUSPECTS
Federal agents in Newark used a cache of 11 pounds of pure heroin seized recently from a Saudi courier at Newark International Airport the largest haul of heroin imported through the airport to track down and arrest five persons believed to be major drug traffickers.
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ENGLEWOOD PILOT KILLED IN N.Y. ACCIDENT; PLANE CRASHES INTO HILLTOP LAKE IN FOG
A 44-year-old Englewood man who was trying to land his plane in dense fog and rain at an upstate New York airport was killed Wednesday when the plane crashed into a hilltop lake.