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...Flight 182 left Los Angeles at 8:30 a.m., flying southward along the Pacific, tracked first by radar controllers at Los Angeles, then by similar Federal Aviation Administration controllers at Miramar Naval Air Station near San Diego. A couple of miles after the PSA plane turned east over Mission Bay, the controllers at Miramar passed control to the Lindbergh tower. The tower assigned Runway 27 for landing. That would require the 727 to continue eastward, flying parallel to the runway, then turn south and finally back toward the west for the touchdown...
...Cessna at 8:55 a.m., Boswell was cleared to make his instrument approach on Runway 9. He did so, then pulled up instead of landing, just as planned. At 8:58, the Cessna asked the Miramar center, which had taken over control of the small plane, for permission to circle for a second, similar practice pass. Permission was granted. The. Cessna was to head east-northeast (70°) for about ten miles and climb to 3,500 ft. before circling west. The Cessna pilots followed instructions, heading directly into the glare of the morning...
...Miramar...
Several hotels have closed or soon will do so. El Miramar and Le Petit Miramar shut down last summer. In March, the 52-year-old Condado Beach, San Juan's oldest luxury hotel, was closed with startling suddenness; guests arriving for breakfast were told by desk clerks to clear out immediately. Carrying their own luggage-the bellhops had been dismissed-the tourists tramped...
...telephone rang at the desk of Captain A.W. ("Hap") Chandler Jr., commander of the Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego. "Hey, Hap, what are you doing about flight jackets down there?" asked the skipper of another Navy facility. "You letting them wear them around the base?" Replied Chandler: "Sure. I've got to, since I do it my self." A former colleague of Zumwalt's in Saigon, Chandler is so enthusiastic about the freer atmosphere under The Big Z that he tries to keep a step ahead. He relaxed the rules on hair and beards before any Z-gram...