Word: sandstorm
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...night last week, the weather around Bahrein was in one of its ugliest moods. A sandstorm scoured the airdrome and blotted visibility down to three-quarters of a mile as an Air France DC-4, carrying 43 passengers and a crew of eight on the regular Saigon-Paris run, called the field for landing instructions. At 1:15 a.m. the man in the tower signaled his O.K., waited for his first glimpse of the DC-4's landing lights. Forty minutes later, still waiting, he called for the rescue teams. Toward dawn, searchers in boats and aircraft found...
...nights later the sandstorm still raged, and a second DC-4 was lost Like the first plane, it was also on the final approach to the airstrip. It plunged into the sea within a mile of the first. The passengers who got out clung to the tail, and then, as the plane sank, to its broken aerial wire. Total loss in the two crashes: 85 lives...