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Close Secret. The joint company is building a 10,000-ft. concrete runway and port facilities at Danang, another 10,000-ft. runway, parking aprons and a deep-draft pier at Chu Lai, an airfield extension, a helipad and a storage warehouse at Qui Nhon. At Cam Ranh, where a huge port facility is going up, it is building ammunition depots, anchorages, runways, aprons and taxiways; at Bien Hoa parking areas for planes, storage warehouses and cantonments. It is building a new U.S. embassy in Saigon, is developing an island in the middle of the Saigon River on which...
Food & Golf. At Dallas' Addison Airpark, six plants are operating, and lots for 45 others have been sold in the park's 75 acres. The park has a mile-long runway that can handle twin-engine jets, is home base for 309 planes. The 703-acre Skywest Park being developed at Hayward, Calif., includes an adjacent 18-hole golf course. Executives of the first company there, Mack Trucks, Inc., soon will be able to fly a visitor to their plant door, feed him in the planned 90-room hotel and restaurant, play a round of golf with...
American's Flight 383 from New York was approaching Cincinnati from the Kentucky side of the Ohio River. In a heavy rain squall, the pilot momentarily lost sight of the ground as he turned to line up with the runway. A wingtip snagged a nearby slope, slamming the plane down with such force that wreckage was strewn over a 400-sq. yd. area. Though local residents pulled four trapped passengers to safety, 58 others died in the flames...
Coming into Salt Lake City Airport, United's Flight 227 pancaked heavily on asphalt 200 feet short of the concrete runway, zigzagged down the field out of control and burst into flames...
...plane's flight recorder has not yet been recovered from Lake Michigan). So that the 727 can land on short fields, engineers have given it a unique wing design. Unless the pilot flies it by the book, he can misjudge his rate of descent, fall short of the runway. One possibility that federal detectives plan to investigate is that the airlines have given inadequate training to pilots assigned to fly the fast-selling plane...