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...crowd chanted "Matti! Matti!" and his countrymen waved blue-and-white Finnish flags, the superbrat of ski jumping shot down the runway at 54 m.p.h. Body tucked, hands behind his back, he soared off as though someone had slipped a piece of hot charcoal into his ski boot...
...woman called it the worst landing she had ever experienced -- and few of her fellow passengers would disagree. After a sharp descent through rain and fog last week, Eastern Airlines Flight 573 slammed so hard onto a runway in Pensacola, Fla., that the DC-9 broke in two, dragging the rear third of its fuselage nearly a mile. "I looked down and I saw the pavement and stripes going under me," said Kyle Barnhill, who was sitting directly over the 2-ft. crack. None of the plane's 100 passengers and five-member crew were seriously hurt. Eastern executives stoutly...
...snowstorm raged and the mercury had dropped to 28 degrees F as Continental Flight 1713, bound for Boise, took off last week from Denver's Stapleton International Airport. The DC-9 was airborne but a few seconds when it clipped the runway with its left wing and cartwheeled down the tarmac, breaking into three pieces. Of the 81 aboard, 28 died, including the pilot and copilot...
...island only 21 miles long and 12 miles wide, Grenada has a surprisingly impressive airport. The 9,000-ft. runway of Point Salines International Airport can easily accommodate jumbo jets from any part of the world. But the most action the tarmac gets these days is from twin-engine Avro 748 island hoppers from Trinidad and Barbados. Cuban engineers began building the airport in the early 1980s, during the leftist regime of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. One U.S. invasion and $19 million in aid later, Point Salines International is completed and, much like Grenada, sits waiting for something to happen...
Rescue workers set up emergency lights on the runway and used electric saws to remove wreckage. The airport was closed shortly after the accident...