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...Down the Runway. The eastbound trip was uneventful. While Bowling Green mangled Cal Poly 50-6, the chartered C46 flew on to ferry the Youngstown University squad to New Haven. Conn., then turned back to take Cal Poly home. At take-off time, Toledo airport was socked in solid with fog. Brent Jobe, an end and student pilot, told his friends that he thought it was crazy to take off. Head Coach Leroy Hughes talked worriedly to the copilot. But Pilot Donald Leland...
...many runway lights?" asked the tower. "I can see three," came the answer. The tower operator reminded Chesher that the lights were 300 ft. apart: Chesher could see less than 1,000 ft. down a runway that had a 4,000-ft. take-off minimum.* Nevertheless, the C-46's engines surged, and the plane lumbered off down the runway. Moments later there was an explosive crash. When rescue crews finally groped their way through the fog, they found the C46 mangled and torn on a taxiway to the left of the runway. Twenty-two passengers in the crumpled...
When a Lockheed Electra plunged 62 persons to their death in Boston Harbor fortnight ago, Administrator Elwood R. Quesada of the Federal Aviation Agency pointed the finger of blame at the flocks of starlings that populate the runway areas of Boston's Logan International Airport. Last week investigators found preliminary proof to indict the starlings, indicated that a flock of 10,000 to 20,000 starlings slammed into the Electra 25 seconds after it left the ground...
Southbound for Philadelphia, Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 roared down Runway 9 of Boston's Logan International Airport, lifted comfortably into the clear October afternoon, then, a few hundred feet in the air, wheeled suddenly on its left wing and dived to destruction in the cold waters of Winthrop Bay. High over Boston Harbor an inbound pilot barked into his mike: "Tower, an Electra just went into the drink...
...Electra in service has yet been modified, and last week's crash laid Quesada's reputation as well as the Electra's on the line. But a flock of dead starlings on the runway at Logan-plus divers' reports that Flight 375's submerged fuselage was still spattered with birds-offered Quesada one plausible explanation: the plane may have hit a flock of birds on takeoff. The birds could have plugged engine air intakes of one or more engines on the left side and caused flameouts; they could even have fouled the mechanism controlling...