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...Jack Pettit...
...trying to figure out why, then, they seem alike. Seldom assigned to guard each other, except for an occasional meeting on the fly, they can't be measured one-on-one. "You know what it is?" said Jack McMahon, the 76ers' assistant coach, who played with Bob Pettit, coached Elvin Hayes and Oscar Robertson and knows something about great players. "Those two guys love to play, and it shows in both of them the same way. Not just in the playoffs but all year long. You can see it; the people...
Unlike the pilots of several nearby planes, Wheaton and Pettit, neither of whom had had extensive experience flying in such weather, never mentioned to the control tower their concern about the ice each saw building up on the wings. Pettit said only to his pilot: "This one's got about a quarter to half an inch [of ice] on it." Despite the unequivocal federal regulation against flying with snow, frost or ice on the wings or engines, they taxied out to take off. Pettit was at the controls. "Slushy runway. Do you want me to do anything special...
...accelerating plane splashed down the runway, Pettit was alarmed by the instrument readings for engine thrust. "God," he said, "look at that thing. That don't seem right, does it? Ah, that's not right." Wheaton: "Yes, it is." Pettit: "Naw, I don't think that's right. Ah, maybe it is. I don't know...
...jetliner took off. Seventeen seconds later, already alerted to the danger of a stall by the rattle of the control stick, Wheaton tried to will Flight 90 aloft. "Forward, forward. Come on, forward. Forward! Just barely climb." Five seconds later Pettit knew it was over. "Larry," he said, "we're going down, Larry...