Word: takeoffs
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...position" when taking off and landing? Is it so the fat lady in front of you will get her body off your once-functional knees? What about storing your tray tables? Has a tray table ever flown up out of its moorings and smacked somebody in the face during takeoff...
Indeed, anyone wondering where the media-savvy satire of vintage Saturday Night Live has gone will be surprised to find that it has resurfaced on a children's show. In a sly takeoff of The Paper Chase, two of the show's regular cast members impersonate Professor Kingsfield and Martin Short's nerdy Ed Grimley character (they figure out whether $250 will be enough to buy all the lawbooks needed). The Samurai Mathematician (with bows to John Belushi) hacks boards into halves, thirds and fourths for a lesson in fractions. Humphrey Bogus and Bergrid Ingman star in an "edited...
...Northwest DC-10 was speeding toward takeoff at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport when the warning came from the flight engineer: "There's a whale on the runway!" Another Northwest wide-bodied DC-10 had just left a taxiway and poked its nose into the path of the oncoming plane. "I see it," replied the amazingly cool captain of the departing aircraft. He abruptly jerked his jumbo jet into the air. His wing cleared the fuselage of the crossing plane by a mere 50 ft. There were 501 people on the two jets. They had barely avoided what would have...
...under clear skies at Minneapolis last March 31? Two air- traffic controllers, sitting side by side in the terminal tower, each failed to realize what the other had done. One had cleared the taxiing plane to cross the runway. The other had told the second plane to roll toward takeoff...
...starts. The supervisor began frantically signaling the pilots to stop so the hose could be freed. Distracted, the ground crew failed to close a small (8 1/2 in. by 11 in.) access door at the hose connection. The crew neglected to run through the required checklist before takeoff. They heard a thumping noise during takeoff, but despite published warnings about this possibility, they did not realize the door was loose...