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From the moment the pilot welcomed us aboard, however, I knew I was in for trouble. He apologized for the delay in takeoff, blaming it on "dangerously high winds." He did reassure us, though, that as long as we kept our seatbelts fastened and read our emergency cards, there wasn't that much to worry about...
...controllers at Milwaukee's General Mitchell Field heard the chilling words a few seconds after takeoff. "I have an emergency," said Pilot Dan Martin of Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105. His twin-engine DC-9 was heading for Atlanta on a sunny afternoon with 27 passengers and a crew of four. That radio transmission proved to be Flight 105's last. About 1,000 ft. above the airport, one wing suddenly dipped. Later some witnesses said they heard an explosion. The plane dropped its nose and screamed toward the ground, crashing about a mile and a half from the airport...
...numbingly familiar ring: the reports of panicked passengers screaming for help, a plane with a sound safety record lying twisted and charred. The grim toll of the dead, this time, was 54. Miraculously, 83 survived the blaze that engulfed the Boeing 737 shortly after an engine exploded during takeoff, forcing the plane back onto the runway...
...engine on a Boeing 737 crammed with vacationers explodes on takeoff in Manchester, turning the rear passenger section...
...rocket designed to climb into orbit and chase down satellites around the earth. After closing with its target, the Soviet missile explodes, destroying the satellite in a hail of shrapnel. But while an F-15 can reach launching position within an hour of takeoff, the Soviets must wait for a target satellite to pass over their fixed missile launch pads, which could take up to twelve hours. The U.S. missile can reach its target within ten minutes of launch. The Soviet rocket takes as long as three hours. Furthermore, the Soviets use a radar homing device that is easier...