On 23 August 2000, Gulf Air Flight 072 from Cairo, on approach to Bahrain International Airport crashed into the shallow waters 5 kilometers from the airport.
Read more about Gulf Air Flight 072: Incident, Investigation, Nationalities of Passengers, Final Report
Famous quotes containing the words gulf, air and/or flight:
“And into the gulf between cantankerous reality and the male ideal of shaping your world, sail the innocent children. They are right there in front of us—wild, irresponsible symbols of everything else we can’t control.”
—Hugh O’Neill (20th century)
“The air was so elastic and crystalline that it had the same effect on the landscape that a glass has on a picture, to give it an ideal remoteness and perfection.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)