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Died. John Thomas Moore, 65, who, on a windy day in December 1903, lent a hand putting a flying machine on a runway, was the last surviving witness to the Wright brothers' historic first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk; of a self-inflicted shotgun wound; on Colington Island...
...heart of the city, killing 79 passengers and six of Elizabeth's citizens. City officials blamed the airport for routing the planes over their homes, demanded that the field be shut down. The Port of New York Authority announced that it was rushing work on a new runway that would shunt most of the traffic away from Elizabeth...
...runway was not yet in operation last Sunday night, when National Airlines' Flight 101 rolled out for takeoff. With 59 Miami-bound passengers, the four-engined DC-6 climbed south over the moonlit marshes...
...minute a buzzer sounded loud over the field. A stock man rushed from one of the barracks and hopped into a Sabre-jet as three mechanics began to warm up the jet itself. Within three minutes the plane was in the air. As it taxied down the runway the guide shouted that the pilot was a major, just back from Korea. For the first time the guide seemed impressed with what he was describing...
...from the New Jersey legislature, from the CAA, the CAB. But Elizabethans were not half so interested in causes of the crash as they were in the exasperating probability that the airport would operate as usual, at least for ten months. Then, if construction is complete, a new instrument runway will bring traffic in over the marshlands to the east...