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...Arriving from Helsinki, a Finnair DC-8 touched down uneventfully on Runway...
...Flying Tiger DC-8 cargo jet approached Runway 22-L. Suddenly, the unpredictable winds shook the 350,000-lb. plane. Pilot Jack Bliss fought to retain control. "Wind shear on approach," he warned the tower. "The wind pulls you down and turns you over ... you should close that runway." But he landed on it anyway, safely...
...Eastern Air Lines Flight 902, a Lockheed Tristar jumbo jet, descended toward the same runway. It was caught in the same turbulence, measured at up to 90 m.p.h. Pilot Clifton Nickerson alerted the tower to the "wind shear and turbulence." Struggling, in his term, to "save it," he prudently pulled the huge craft back into the air and off to a safe landing at nearby Newark Airport. Some of his passengers grumbled about the "poor service...
...Twenty minutes late on its nonstop run from New Orleans, Eastern's Flight 66 headed toward the same runway. A stretched version of the Boeing 727, its three jet engines mounted at its tail, the plane carried 116 passengers and a crew of eight. Its pilot, Captain John W. Kleven, 54, only minutes earlier had been advised by the tower of the complaint about wind shear made by Eastern 902's pilot. Unlike his fortunate predecessor, however, Kleven was unable to "save...
...during 1973 and early 1974, private and government employers generally gave in to labor's demands for higher pay. Now that Canada's economy is clearly slumping, bosses will be more frequently inclined to say no. Already this year, nurses, schoolteachers, dockworkers, airport firemen, traffic controllers and runway maintenance crews have walked off their jobs...