1. Big enough to contain seven jumbo jetliners, the balloon was pumped up with an experimental mixture of helium and hot air and had several innovative safety features. 2. McDONNELL DROPS JUMBO JET PLANS McDonnell Douglas said that it was dropping plans for a new jumbo jetliner, because of the billions of dollars in development costs. 3. On Monday, McDonnell Douglas dropped plans for a new jumbo jetliner to concentrate on making military aircraft and smaller passenger planes. 4. Parr said Yousef admitted that he would have bombed several jumbo jetliners within a few weeks if his plan had not been discovered. 5. Scholley dove Monday night off the Grapple, the ship that has been excavating pieces from the front part of the jumbo jetliner. 6. A Saudi jumbo jetliner collided in flight with a Kazak airliner near New Delhi, exploding in flames and sending fiery wreckage plunging into farm fields Tuesday. 7. A Saudi Airways jumbo jetliner collided in flight with a Kazakh Airways airliner Tuesday near New Delhi. 8. A Saudi jumbo jetliner collided with a Kazak airliner Tuesday near New Delhi, exploding in flames and sending fiery wreckage plunging into fields. 9. The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta chartered two jumbo jetliners to fly Americans and immediate family members out of the increasingly threatening capital. 10. They are intended to give several hours warning that a deadly and destructive bulge on the ocean is headed for land as fast as a jumbo jetliner. |