Air safety: Facts

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Gunsa Airport started operations on 1 July 2010, becoming the fourth civil airport in Tibet, providing easy access for pilgrims to Mt. Kailash and Lake Manasarovar?
Keflavík International Airport is the largest airport in Iceland?
as CEO of The Hertz Corporation, Robert L. Stone chose O. J. Simpson (pictured) for a series of car rental ads that featured O.J. running through airports?
development proposals for Washington, D.C.'s Kingman Island have included an airport, a landfill, a public aquarium, stadium parking lots, and a theme park?
the new airport being constructed near Islamabad, Pakistan will be named Gandhara International Airport, after the ancient kingdom Gandhara?

a helicopter once crashed on Interstate 84 in New York, stopping traffic and causing a power outage?
of 43 people on board, the sole survivor of the 2006 Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash was at the toilet at the time of the crash?
the 1958 mid-air collision of United Airlines Flight 736 and a U.S. Air Force F-100 Super Sabre, with no survivors, is the deadliest crash in the history of Las Vegas?
the first Douglas DC-9 jet airliner to crash was West Coast Airlines Flight 956 in 1966?

Jerusalem's Kanfei Nesharim Street is long and wide and straight like a runway, because it was originally built as one?
Choir is the site of the longest runway in Mongolia?
in the middle of building Fagernes Airport, Leirin, the authorities changed their minds and gave the airport more than twice the runway length?

long after Lana Stempien died by drowning, someone or something turned on the GPS system on her abandoned boat?
the satellite GPS IIR-1, intended to become part of the United States Air Force Global Positioning System, was destroyed 13 seconds after launch?

Milton Hebald's 1960 sculpture depicted the 12 signs of the zodiac on the Pan Am Worldport at John F. Kennedy International Airport?
before her election to the New York State Senate, Carol Berman led the ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent the Concorde from landing at Kennedy Airport in New York City?