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...were coming in for a normal landing," said Robert Cooley, who awoke 200 ft. from the debris. "I sure hate to land in Cincinnati," remarked Stewardess Eleanor Kurtock, a survivor, seconds before the airliner took its final plunge-7,050 ft. short of the airport's North-South Runway...
...flying hours who died in the cockpit, was flying too low. Despite the snow, weather conditions did not rule out a visual landing; moreover, all pilots were warned that Cincinnati's electronic glide slope indicator had been out of action since Sept. 5 while the runway is being lengthened. Airport officials hastened to give their facilities a clean bill. Nonetheless, twice before in the past six years the hills of Hebron have been a November graveyard for aircraft approaching Runway 18. A Boeing 727 crashed in rain little more than a mile from the orchard when the pilot miscalculated...
...tragic coincidences prompted Ohio's Governor James A. Rhodes to request closure of the runway. Rhodes claimed that pilots approaching Runway 18 are buffeted by downdrafts over the hills and that the rolling terrain causes a form of optical illusion. Though neither of these complaints figures in warnings to pilots using the field, the crash of Flight 128 will reinforce demands by Ohioans to move Cincinnati's main airport away from Kentucky and into their own state...
Sallal refused to take Nasser's advice; moreover, he declined to heed the implicit warning. Instead of returning home to fight for his job, he flew off to Baghdad, hoping to round up support from other Arab Socialist friends. Hardly had his plane left the runway of Cairo Airport, when Nasser fired off a cable to the Yemeni capital at San'a. The cable did not actually tell the Republican army to overthrow Sallal, but it instructed Egyptian troops still in Yemen not to block a coup-just in case the army might be planning...
...several startled seconds before everybody started firing. Four of the Viet Cong were captured, one by a young lieutenant who hit him with a football body block and a right to the jaw. Later that same night, the Viet Cong massed among the trees for another attack across the runway but were driven off by U.S. jets. Still another large force of Viet Cong tried to overrun a U.S. battalion positioned west of Loc Ninh; they were forced back in bloody combat, suffering 200 dead...