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Apart from the US Superfund [14] and the funds established by the oQ industry [15], such compensation schemes are still unusual and of minor significance. In the Netherlands a fund on damage fix>m air pollution was created already in 1972 and in France, a fund for noise, which compensates persons living around Paris airports, in 1973. The US Superfund, as is widely agreed, has proved inefficient and unfair, and therefore, should not serve as a model. The solutions fix the oil industry, in turn, serve only for purposes characteristic to that industry, ie, are created in case of major transport accidents. 

Soon after we took off from Washington National Airport, bound for Paris, the plane ran into a cold front and deep pockets. We were driven north. I had flown in storms before yet I was uneasy. 

Helicopter down wash has been successful in a very limited number of cases. To be successful. Ihe fog must he very shallow, and the air above the fog, bolh dry and warm, fixhausl plumes from jet engines have had some success in a number of European airports, notably at Orly (Paris). 

About two years ago a co-passenger from Paris who befriended me in Frankfurt Airport (since we mutually discovered a common interest and common destination, Chicago) and we spent a few minutes discussing an interesting article published in the US a few years ago, which he recently read and which I felt to be quite relevant to the subject matter which you are going to read in the forthcoming pages of this book. 

Port and Airport Research Institute 3-1-1, Nagase, Yokosuka 239-0826, Japan takahashi-s pari.go.jp... 

Airports de Gaulle (Paris), Heathrow (London), Frankfurt (Germany), Hartsfield (Atlanta), Hong Kong (China), Singapore... 

But BBI is unlikely to become a hub on the scale of a Erankfurt or Paris. After reunification, Lufthansa expressed interest in making Berlin a second hub to complement Frankfurt, but the slow progress in resolving the airport problem compelled the carrier to shift its attention instead to Munich, where Lufthansa is now deeply... 

Turkish Airlines Flight 981 Accident. This accident occurred on March 3, 1974, and is associated with the Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (aircraft type McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10), a scheduled flight from Istanbul, Turkey, to Heathrow Airport, London, U.K., via Paris, France [6]. The flight crashed due to cargo hatch failure and control cable failures and caused 346 fatalities. 

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