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...capacity load of 258 passengers and a crew of 13. Traffic was backed up at the airport, which averages some two takeoffs and landings per minute. Captain Walter H. Lux awaited clearance and was about eight minutes behind schedule as he got tower approval to roll down Runway 32-R (heading 320°, roughly northwest...
...bullet in his back in a small hospital in Riohacha, Colombia. He explained to authorities that he and McLemore had been flying down to Venezuela to pick up oil-drilling bits. But they had had engine trouble near the Colombian coast and were forced to land on a makeshift runway. Then, claimed Spradley, he was set upon by Indians wearing loincloths. They shot him, robbed him and left him by the plane...
...look back and I can't believe I went through the trouble of putting down the runway every day," Stiles said. "I was just a freshman," he added...
...move out of Briggs Cage and onto the fast surface at the ITT in 1977 also added to Stiles's improved vaulting ability, although the hardness of the tennis courts which double as a runway "destroys your legs...
Stiles stressed the importance of concentration while vaulting but also noted some dangerous possible consequences: since he spends the first half of his run looking down, he has more than once come close to impaling people wandering across the runway...