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...West Germany, a day after the New York disaster, a U.S. Air Force Convair, carrying 13 holiday-bound University of Maryland students and a crew of seven, crashed in downtown Munich shortly after takeoff, heeled sharply into a two-section trolley car jammed with Christmas shoppers, and exploded into a fiery pyre. All aboard the plane and at least 60 Germans were killed...
...that he first scouted the concrete apron on foot to spot parked planes so he would not run into them as he taxied out. Then he got an airport mechanic to walk ahead of him and through the mist point the way as he inched the plane toward takeoff...
...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 the Electra's great paddle-bladed props. And although the Electra is designed to fly on two engines in an emergency...
First Leg. "As you know," said the President in a brief statement before takeoff, "there have been public warnings that I should not visit the Far East at this time." Nevertheless, he felt a "compelling responsibility . . . within the American mission of free-world leadership . . . neither to postpone nor to cancel my visit ... If the trip now ahead of me were concerned principally with the support of a regime or a treaty or a disputed policy, if it were intended merely to bolster a particular program, or to achieve a limited objective, such a journey would have no real justification...
...Italian and U.S. governments,TWA, and Lockheed Aircraft, builder of the plane, had precious few clues to go on. "It was a mess," said one of the experts. "All we could tell at first was that the right wing had come off in midair.'' All servicing and takeoff procedures were normal; the pilot had reported no trouble by radio. At the wooded crash site, technicians gathered the twisted fragments and sorted them into the plane's component parts. Metallurgical tests showed that the fuel tanks had been subjected to terrific pressure inside and had exploded. Studying fragments...