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...prescribed by FAA controllers. Such unnecessary evasive maneuvers were cited as the probable cause of the collision over New York's Westchester County between an Eastern Airlines Constellation and a TWA 707 jet. Although both planes were damaged, the 707 limped safely to JFK, and the Constellation managed to crash-land, killing four. In the other accident, the pilot of an Eastern DC-7B approaching JFK maneuvered so violently in order to avoid a Pan American jet that was actually 1,000 feet above him that he lost control and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 84 aboard...
...shattered Japanese air force was able to supply the pilots were obsolete, Type 97 fixed-landing-gear crates in bad repair. Three of the pilots did eventually get off on Kamikaze missions. But one by one, the other nine on the flight from Ozuki were forced to ditch or crash-land. Except for one pilot who died in a crash, they were still waiting for replacement aircraft when the war ended three months later...
Where Batista's mailed gauntlet was absent, Castro's brass knuckles took over. His gunmen hijacked still another Cubana airliner, this time with seven U.S. nationals aboard, forced it to crash-land in Nipe Bay. Early reports put the dead at 17 of 20 passengers and crew. In the backlands where rebel bands roam more or less at will, candidates were terrorized. They could not make campaign speeches, shake hands, or get before the people in any fashion, except from the safety of heavily guarded TV stations. A few were shot down. In Oriente province, balloting was virtually...
...creatures swooped down on the hedge-hopping Cessna, forcing it to crash-land on an elephant track, or else be demolished by the flock. Both pilot and wife noted that the Ibis leader seemed especially trained for his performance, and speculated that he may have been sent out by some group intent on ridding the world of perhaps the Twentieth Century's most talented author...
Despite the confusion and inconvenience, most laymen heartily approved CAA's action. Reason: the "Star of Lisbon" was the third Constellation to catch fire and crash-land in the last ten months. The first, an Army plane manned by a Pan American crew, went down near Linn, Kans. in September. The second was a commercial Pan American ship (carrying members of London's Old Vic company back to Britain), which dropped an engine and squeaked into Willimantic, Conn, last month...