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)
“He will place a tax on the air you breathe and on the bread you eat; he will give you a legislation which is as legitimate as it is unjust and instead of reasons, he’ll give you laws. These will grow in the course of time, until you no longer exist for yourselves but for others.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“One man’s observation is another man’s closed book or flight of fancy.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)