Feb 11 1980
From The Space Library
The Washington Star said that an Aeroflot jetliner carrying Soviet Olympic contenders had landed at Kennedy International Airport in New York February 10. This was the second time in two weeks that the airline had broken its agreement not to land in New York; union ground crews had refused to service Soviet planes as a protest of Soviet incursion into Afghanistan. New York airport officials had unloaded Aeroflot passengers' baggage two weeks previously after the State Department intervened; the plane had sat on the ground for two days during arguments about servicing it. The February 10 flight went on after a two-hour delay to Dulles airport in Virginia, where 122 of the 145 passengers boarded buses for Lake Placid. (W Star, Feb 11/80, A-1)
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