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Never mind the courts, keep an eye on the airports: The surest sign of General Augusto Pinochet's fate may be the arrival of a Chilean military aircraft in London Monday, ready to take the former dictator home. "Britain's government has backed away from the Pinochet case, saying it's a matter for the courts," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "They're committed to seeing through the Spanish extradition request, but this is too hot for Britain to handle alone." As Pinochet's lawyers fought for his release in London, the Spanish high court was considering...
...cockpit, and the presence of smoke made the crash seem eerily similar to that of ValuJet Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades in 1996. As a result, the Swissair disaster has attracted fresh attention to inexpensive devices already widely deployed in private corporate jets--but not in commercial aircraft--that can help protect pilots and passengers from the horror of a smoke-filled cabin...
...drugs, in reality policymakers have no way of knowing that military training and equipment are not used for counter-insurgency against guerrilla forces. In Colombia, where the War on Drugs and the government's counter-insurgency efforts are most intertwined, the bill earmarks $168 million for helicopters and other aircraft, despite repeated reports of clashes between Colombian air forces and FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) guerrillas...
...Glenn encountered an unexpectedly heavy barrage of antiaircraft fire. A cloud of shrapnel ripped one bomb from the undercarriage of his Panther, then another. A second blast punched more than 200 holes in the skin of his plane. Glenn struggled for a few moments to keep his wounded aircraft stable and then realized the effort was futile. Keying open his microphone, he called out levelly to the squadron leader, "I'm going to ease out of here...
Travel '98, beset by fiery cruise ships and bouncing aircraft, led us to ask these intrepid globe trotters about their narrowest escapes from danger...