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24 unusual facts about Los Angeles International Airport


1990–91 Vancouver Canucks season

Upon landing at Los Angeles International Airport the team charter was nearly involved in the fatal collision USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 as the aircraft landed on a parallel runway approximately 100 meters from the collision.

Beagle Brigade

The APHIS airport inspection program was begun in 1984 at Los Angeles International Airport.

Board of Airport Commissioners of Los Angeles v. Jews for Jesus, Inc.

, 482 U.S. 569 (1987), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that an ordinance prohibiting all "First Amendment activities" in the Los Angeles International Airport was facially unconstitutional due to its overbreadth.

Bunch of Guys

In 2000, Canadian authorities determined that a small group of angry Algerian men were harmless, and called them just a "bunch of guys." One of the group's members, Ahmed Ressam, was later detained with a load of nitroglycerin and timing devices that he planned to use in a terror attack at Los Angeles International Airport.

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

He's made a down payment on the blueprints to a bank at Los Angeles International Airport, but needs to raise $45,000 to complete the purchase.

Donald Barrios

Barrios contacted him early in December 1981 and dispatched him to Los Angeles International Airport to pick up Meneses.

El Segundo blue butterfly

El Segundo Blue (Euphilotes battoides allyni) is a butterfly local to a small dune ecosystem in Southern California that used to be a community called Palisades del Rey, close to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

Emad Burnat

On February 19, 2013, he and his family were detained at Los Angeles International Airport, when customs officials refused to believe his reason for entry.

Eriogonum parvifolium

Because of the host relationship to number of insect species, E. parvifolium has been the subject of numerous restoration programs including a significant and well researched program at Los Angeles International Airport, one of only three extant colonies of the endangered El Segundo blue.

Fort Worth Alliance Airport

Alliance filled-in for Los Angeles International Airport during the filming of the short-lived 2004 TV drama LAX.

Havidol

Cooper had the initial idea while waiting for a flight at the Los Angeles International Airport.

L.A. International Airport

The song was rerecorded with updated lyrics in 2003 by Shirley Myers for the 75th Anniversary of LAX.

Manabu Mabe

On 30 January 1979, after an exhibition in Tokyo, 153 of his paintings were on board of a Varig, cargo Boeing 707-323C registration PP-VLU en route from Tokyo - Narita to Rio de Janeiro-Galeão via Los Angeles.

New Zealand English

This followed an incident in 1985 when an Oakland-bound American passenger accidentally ended up on a flight to Auckland after misunderstanding several Air New Zealand flight attendants at Los Angeles International Airport.

Pan-Pacific Auditorium

Designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm Wurdeman and Becket, which later designed the Music Center and the space-age "Theme Building" at Los Angeles International Airport, the Pan-Pacific Auditorium opened to a fanfare of Boy Scout bugles on May 18, 1935 for a 16-day model home exhibition.

Put You on the Game

The video shows many Los Angeles landmarks such as Staples Center, The Watts Towers, and LAX.

Rap Olympics

A different version was first held October 24, 1997, in Los Angeles near LAX airport.

Sherri L. Smith

After leaving Disney, Smith found an unlikely home with a construction company, on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport.

The Global Soul

Iyer travels through California, the Los Angeles airport (a microcosm of a city), Hong Kong, Toronto, Britain, Japan, and discusses the Olympic Games as a force of and for globalism.

The Woman at the Airport

While the series takes place mostly in Washington, D.C., this episode is also set in Los Angeles, California, featuring FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth and Dr. Temperance Brennan's investigation into a woman whose remains were found at several locations in the Los Angeles International Airport.

While Dr. Brennan and Zach start working on it, Booth brings in another case, skeletal remains of a victim that are dispersed around Los Angeles airport.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

Although Fisher manages to capture Sadono, Third Echelon learns that a rogue CIA operative, Norman Soth has acquired the last smallpox-armed ND133, and intends to detonate it inside Los Angeles International Airport.

Troy Neel

On December 11, 2008, Neel was arrested at the Los Angeles International Airport by US Health and Human Services investigators after he exited a plane from Sydney, Australia; he awaited trial in San Antonio, Texas.

Westside Neighborhood School

Through the school year ending in 2005, WNS was Westchester Neighborhood School, located in south Westchester directly under the final approaches of aircraft landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), hence the "Jets" nickname used by the school's athletic teams.


2011 Dearborn mosque bombing plot

On September 1, 1979, the Merced Sun-Star reported that Stockham, whom it described as a "32-year-old Moslem convert", had taken his then-9-year-old son Kane out of foster care and brought Kane and a gun on board his rented Cessna 150 in attempt to land at Los Angeles International Airport and hijack an airliner to take him to Iran.

Astar Air Cargo

Its main base was Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron, Kentucky, with hubs at Miami International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport.

China Airlines Flight 006

China Airlines Flight 006 (callsign "Dynasty 006") was a daily non-stop flight departing from Taipei at 16:15 and scheduled to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport at 07:00 local time.

Frank D. Parent

Parent was an early supporter of Mines Field, near Inglewood, as a site for a Los Angeles municipal airport, and he persuaded the planners of the National Air Races that the field would be the "best possible landing area" and they chose it for the 1928 event, which solidified public sentiment in favor of the location for the city's first airport.

As chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee, he helped bring Los Angeles International Airport and the first two National Air Races to Inglewood.

Sweet Dreams My LA Ex

The name uses a pun on LAX, the IATA airport code for Los Angeles International Airport.

Volaris

The new Volaris routes to and from Los Angeles International Airport, Sacramento International Airport, Oakland International Airport and San Jose International Airport will offer Southwest customers new places in Mexico that can be served through the Volaris alliance.

Xtra Airways

Casino Express Airlines operated one (1) Boeing 737-200 jetliner for new start-up airline Tahoe Air which provided scheduled passenger air service from the South Lake Tahoe Airport (TVL) nonstop to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in southern California and also nonstop to San Jose International Airport (SJC) in northern California.