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...pilot did an outstanding job," Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesperson John Mogul said. "The pilot held the nose off the ground, then lowered the nose slowly to the runway...
After circling several more times, the plane landed by dropping its wing wheels deftly to the runway in a gentle, but ungainly, landing, its nose scraping the pavement...
...Suddenly you were on the runway with foam on your face and on your back," she said, adding that she probably would take the train back to New York...
...Flight 803 left Seoul and made trouble-free stops in Thailand and Saudi Arabia. Approaching Tripoli's airport in a dense morning fog, the pilot decided to land, even though only an hour earlier an arriving Soviet Aeroflot jet had prudently detoured to Malta. The KAL plane missed the runway by more than a mile, cartwheeled and slammed into two cars and two farmhouses...
...voice on the intercom shouted, "Brace! Brace! Brace!" Four minutes later, some ten seconds short of the runway, the DC-10's right wing dipped, slicing into the dirt to the left of the asphalt. The plane plowed into the ground and flipped over twice before finally landing on its back. In a cloud of dirt, smoke and flying metal, the plane broke into ever smaller pieces as parts of its fuselage hurtled across the runway and into a cornfield...