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Twenty minutes after takeoff, the pilot informed passengers over the intercom that the indicator light for the plane’s landing gear was malfunctioning, recalled Sopen B. Shah ’08, who was on the flight. The pilot said he would circle the plane around Logan for an hour and a half to burn fuel before landing...
Logan air traffic controllers had noticed sparks coming from the rear of the plane shortly after it took off, according to Jim Peters, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration. A ball bearing, which controls the landing wheels, had failed on the outermost tire on the right side of the Boeing 717 aircraft, he said...
...Baghdad to better understand the plight of Iraq's citizens. "I thought I'd go the extra mile for that or, rather, a few thousand miles," says Hassan, who left the U.S. Dec. 11, notifying his family in an e-mail from the road. The teen bought a $900 plane ticket to Kuwait with money his parents had given him earlier. He took a taxi to the Iraq border but couldn't enter because of pre-election security. Undeterred, he flew to Lebanon, stayed with family friends and flew to Baghdad on Christmas. After a day in Iraq, he contacted...
...earlier in his speeches, being informal and thin. King sputtered at the podium, then slipped a gear. "And they were telling me--now it doesn't matter now," he said. "It really doesn't matter. I left Atlanta this morning ..." He told briskly of the bomb scare on his plane and how the pilot had announced that threats to King had generated a precautionary overnight guard for the aircraft. "And then I got into Memphis." He frowned. "And some began to say the threats--or talk about the threats--that were out, what would happen to me from some...
...expect that if you run against each other, you then could ever work together again or be friends. But in my case, it's something that's very easy. Bill's gone out of his way to make me feel comfortable in this work together. On the plane to [the] tsunami [region], he wouldn't take the bedroom on the Air Force plane. I said, "No, come on, you go in there, and I'll take the next leg." "No, no," he said. I guess he wanted to play cards all night. But nevertheless, that means something...