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  • Mr. Higgins said the agency and salvage company officials were still trying to work out the logistics of how to lift the 80-ton plane onto a barge.

    Hoisting Jet Proves a Challenge 2009

  • To the relief of many, the evacuation appeared to be picture perfect: As the 80-ton jetliner floated on the river between New York and New Jersey, inflated life rafts bobbed alongside the fuselage -- precisely what evacuation cards in airline seat pockets depict.

    Rescue Renews Focus on Training 2009

  • So eager was the company to reach consumers ahead of competitors that in 1996 it airlifted an 80-ton bottling line from Atlanta to the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok.

    Coke Bets on Russia for Sales 2009

  • A company named Byrd Salvage brought in a barge, the Helen B., which used two 80-ton pulling cables to drag Legacy off the flats into open water.

    Bryan Burrough: The Legacy Sails Away: Bryan Burrough Burrough, Bryan 2008

  • The uncontrolled 80-ton hunk of metal broke into many pieces.

    CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2008 2008

  • Whenever we think of something falling from the sky in an uncontrolled fashion, we think back to 1979 when the huge 80-ton Skylab fell down through the sky and landed in parts of Western Australia, raining down some debris there.

    CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2008 2008

  • Once that is done, then commands will be sent by the crew aboard Endeavour to retract the docking rings seen in this view from Endeavour and pull the spacecraft together -- the 80-ton station and the 120-ton shuttle.

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: Space Shuttle Endeavour Docks with International Space Station - December 2, 2000 2000

  • Aerial view of the Delta Nine Launch Facility (left) [LARGERIMAGE]; explosive gas generators would have opened the 80-ton hexagonal door covering the silo if a launch had been necessary (right) [LARGERIMAGE].

    Cold War Memories 2000

  • Thirty five miners were rescued after the flood but there had been no sign of John Sithole, who operated an 80-ton machine that they have located.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The pontoons by means of which the bridge was floated to its new position consisted of four 80-ton barges, braced together so as to form one solid structure 64 feet in width, and were placed in position soon after the tide commenced to rise.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Various

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