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...Private aircraft entering the TCAs must be equipped with transponders that automatically report altitude to the control tower; only about half of all private planes are currently outfitted with such devices. Edmund Pinto, senior vice president of the 260,000-member Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, said that "the whole system won't work unless the control system is modernized." Currently, a $12 billion plan to upgrade the nation's air- traffic operations is two years behind schedule...
...crashed and spent six months recovering in Egypt. By the time he got back in the air, this time in a spiffy new Hurricane over Greece, the Luftwaffe dominated the skies. Dahl piloted one of a dozen planes sent up to meet some 200 enemy aircraft in the Battle of Athens. During these two years, 13 of the original 16 members of his flying class were killed, frequently in the face of overwhelming odds. His comment on the sacrifice has considerable moral bite: "In retrospect, one gasps at the waste of life...
Shortly after his capture by Sandinista troops, former U.S. Marine Eugene Hasenfus, 45, the sole survivor of the four-man crew, linked the ill-fated supply mission to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Moreover, a passel of memos, business cards and logbooks found aboard the aircraft produced a trail of American names and phone numbers from California to Washington. The evidence raised an outcry in the capital, and for good reason: any direct American involvement in the Nicaraguan war would violate a ban laid down by Congress...
Indeed, distinctions between public and private acts were increasingly clouded last week in the wake of the downed aircraft. At week's end new documents from the plane linked Co-Pilot William Sawyer Jr. to flights to American military bases in the U.S., Central America and the Caribbean. The evidence suggested anew that the final mission of the C-123K was more than a purely private matter...
...Syrians said the British Council complex, a cultural center supported by the British government, also would be shut down and Syrian air space and territorial waters would be offlimits for British aircraft and ships...