Word: planes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOVIE OF THE WEEK (ABC, 8:30-10 p.m.). "Seven in Darkness" include Milton Berle, Dina Merrill, Tippy Walker and Barry Nelson as blind survivors of a plane wreck, in remote mountains. Premiere of a series of movies produced...
...reached out to muss Nixon's hair. Nixon, fight ing to stay on his feet, seemed to enjoy every moment. He signed autographs, had himself photographed with a local woman and her child, and pumped hundreds of hands before making his way back to the sanctuary of his plane...
...single-engine Piper Cherokee, piloted by a plumber on a solo training flight, lopped off the tail section of an Allegheny Airlines DC-9 as the jetliner headed for a landing at Indianapolis' Weir Cook Airport. Eighty-three persons were killed, including the pilot of the private plane. It was the 19th time this year that two planes have collided and the 58th time since the start...
Significantly, all of the collisions have involved at least one private plane. This statistic points up the urgent need for better regulation of small craft, most of which lack the sophisticated electronic navigation and safety equipment required by the Federal Aviation Administration for commercial airliners. Indianapolis air-traffic controllers say that the small plane in last week's collision, for example, was not detected by airport radar. Had it been equipped (as all commercial carriers are) with a transponder that bounces back a strong radar echo, it might well have been spotted by ground controllers in time...
...days after the Indianapolis disaster, the very same flight-Allegheny 853-came perilously close to another mid-air collision with a light plane while departing Greater Cincinnati Airport. Fortunately, in this instance the unidentified light plane suddenly showed up on airport radar when the two craft were within five to ten seconds of crashing-just enough time to warn the jetliner away...