Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pilot Victor Grubbs, 56, who had 32 years experience, actually been directed by the tower to take an awkward, 135° backward exit onto Tenerife's ramp C-3 rather than use the more gently angled ramp C4? Grubbs was heading toward C-4 as he moved to get in position behind the KLM plane to make his own takeoff. If he had made the earlier turn, he might have been clear of the runway before the KLM 747 reached that exit point...
...reach their takeoff point. KLM confirmed its orders and proceeded. Pan Am followed at about 6 m.p.h. In good weather, 20 m.p.h. would be normal. As the two planes moved up the runway, KLM asked the tower to confirm that Pan Am would move off at the third exit ramp. The tower reply: "Affirmative. One, two, three. The third...
...this point the Clipper was approaching ramp C4. It angled at about 45° to the left to join the taxiway in a short loop leading to the head of the runway. The Clipper had passed C3, which headed back toward the terminal in a difficult turn for a big plane. Another sharp turn onto the taxiway would be required. Pan Am officials were later to explain that the crew considered C-l inactive because it was blocked by aircraft and assumed that the final turn was the "third intersection" the tower meant the plane to take. Pan Am was only...
...CONTROLLERS. From the moment he asks permission to nose his jet away from the ramp, the pilot?however silvery his hair and steady his hand?must work in close partnership with an individual who is usually a decade or two his junior and may be as outwardly nervous as the pilot is calm. As a group, air controllers are intense and self-confident men (their ranks include few women) who are polished professionals. Day after day, unheard by the passengers riding in the sky, controllers spot pilots who have strayed into trouble and direct them to safety. A disaster could...
When Secretary of State Cyrus Vance walked down the ramp of his Air Force jet into the glare of spotlights at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport late last week, he was, symbolically at least, taking a mighty leap in the dark. TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, who arrived with the Vance party, cabled that Vance's welcome was warm enough: "He was greeted properly by his Soviet counterpart, Andrei Gromyko, and he and his wife were given the traditional bouquet of red carnations. They posed for pictures with Gromyko on a clear, 35° night and, after a short...