Word: runway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ludicrous. A story that ends in suicide, for example, is immediately followed by one in which half the officers on the post, full of booze, jump into the officers' club pool in pursuit of a flock of ducks. In another episode, sheep get loose on the main runway when a plane carrying the Under Secretary of War for Air is about to land. There is a private from Alabama who thinks " 'tain't fit for a grown man" to make his own bed, so his sergeant ends up making...
...story has it that a student heading home for Christmas vacation could not bear facing his parents with his low marks. As he waited at Logan Airport for his plane to taxi to a halt, he suddenly burst onto the runway and ran full tilt into the whirring propellors...
...veered away and landed at another field. Not until nine hours later were air search parties called out, and at 3 p.m., a Rhodesian scout plane radioed back the news: the Albertina had crashed in a dense forest less than seven miles from the end of the Ndola runway. Hammarskjold's body was found a few yards from the charred wreckage. There was one survivor: U.N. Security Guard Harold Julien, who was almost delirious but managed to tell police he had heard some explosions just before the plane crashed. (Julien died five days later...
Three Harvard students and the Chief of Surgery in the University Health Services were passengers on the American Airlines jet that fell into Winthrop Bay after overshooting the runway at Logan Airport yesterday...
...Boeing 707 Astrojet came down in heavy fog yesterday afternoon, overshot the runway and skidded into shallow water. Calm action by the plane's crew and the rapid appearances of rescue boats enabled everyone aboard to reach safety...