Word: dc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seeped over the mountains around the airport as Pilot Rickards, in communication with Continental officials in the tower, continued to stall for time. Rickards told the increasingly nervous gunmen that Havana's José Marti Airport would not accommodate the huge jetliner, offered instead to substitute a smaller DC-7 already en route to El Paso for the flight. By this time, the El Paso drama had become an affair of state; if, as was automatically assumed, the hijackers were indeed Castro henchmen, drastic U.S. steps might have been required. In Washington, President Kennedy was kept informed about...
...stuffed with paper so they could not lock the doors. Armed guards stood in the halls, telephone calls were banned, a Swiss embassy representative was turned away. But no one was harmed, and next day the Americans were permitted to return to Miami in a regularly scheduled Pan American DC-6. Now their luggage included cartons of Cuban rum emblazoned: "Let's go to Cuba-the friendly island next door...
Next day an Eastern Air Lines DC-8 approaching Miami also lost hydraulic pressure. Captain H. O. Hudgins, 50, brought the plane down normally, used up his reserve supply of hydraulic fluid and had to try the air brakes. They locked, all the tires blew out, and the plane careened off the runway. But there were no nearby obstacles for it to hit and no one was hurt. Back at Denver the day after that, another UAL DC-8 pilot on a training flight reported low hydraulic pressure, emergency rigs stood by, but the landing was normal...
Federal Aviation Administrator Najeeb Halaby saw no reason to ground the 96 DC-8s in service in the U.S., but issued orders for new procedures to conserve valuable hydraulic pressure when the landing supply runs...
Flying on to Canada, the weary Sandys got a brusque reception. He was flown from Montreal to Ottawa in a creaking old DC-3, while a Nigerian trade mission arriving the same day was assigned a plush government Viscount. At the bargaining table, the Canadians demanded not only assurances of protection for their exports to Britain ( which constitute only 20% of their sales abroad), but also that Britain would call a Commonwealth Prime Ministers' meeting before opening talks with the Six. Sandys had no authority to agree to either (and Macmillan, who will not even let the Commons debate...