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...sunny Friday afternoon, thousands of Chicago motorists lucky enough to get off to a fast start on the long Memorial Day weekend streamed out along Interstate 90. Brisk winds rippled the green field between the crowded highway and O'Hare International Airport. Half an hour later, the field was shrouded in black smoke, and firemen held hoses on a flaming aircraft engine. Police and other emergency workers stepped gingerly through scattered and smoldering wreckage, looking for signs of life. They found none...
...that field, which was an abandoned private airport immediately north of the world's busiest terminal, 271 people had died. They had crashed to earth in an American Airlines DC-10, which had taken off from O'Hare at 3 p.m. on a four-hour, nonstop flight to Los Angeles. The huge wide-body plane (its cabin is 136 ft. long and 19 ft. wide) had flown only half a mile...
What had gone wrong at O'Hare? The 120-ton DC-10 had arrived only a few hours before on a flight from Phoenix. In Chicago it was designated Flight 191 and it took on its capacity load of 258 passengers and a crew of 13. Traffic was backed up at the airport, which averages some two takeoffs and landings per minute. Captain Walter H. Lux awaited clearance and was about eight minutes behind schedule as he got tower approval to roll down Runway 32-R (heading 320°, roughly northwest...
Charles W. Cheng of Los Angeles, an educator and civil rights activist who was involved in the movement to desegregate Boston public schools, was among those killed in Friday's crash of the American Airlines DC-10 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. He was 42 years...
Last week, after eight days of weighing the evidence-including photos-the jury of four men and two women took only four hours to ease the scarred O'Hare's pain. For this suffering, plus loss of income and earning power, plus medical expenses, it awarded her precisely $854,219.61, a stunning amount that headline writers could not resist calling variously NAVEL VICTORY, BATTLE OF MIDWAY, and BELLY LAUGH. Hours later, patient and doctor ran into each other at Manhattan's "21" Club; she was there to celebrate, he to ponder an appeal and "the absurdity...