Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though key questions remain, investigators have little doubt about the general sequence of events that followed. The tower ordered KLM to taxi the full length of the runway, make a 180° turn and hold. It ordered Pan Am to follow about three minutes behind and turn off at the "third intersection." There were four such turns (see diagram) providing runway access from the terminal apron and taxi strip. Ten planes congesting the apron blocked the jumbos from using the full taxiway to reach their takeoff point. KLM confirmed its orders and proceeded. Pan Am followed at about 6 m.p.h...
...craft was still refueling, blocking the Clipper's way. Pan Am First Officer Robert Bragg radioed to KLM, asking how much longer the refueling would take. "About 35 minutes," came the crisp reply. Bragg and Grubbs measured the clearance around the KLM plane, found it inadequate to taxi past. KLM would have to take off first...
...reduce the risk of misunderstanding between tower and cockpit, a controller is forbidden to tell a pilot to "hold for takeoff." The mere mention of "takeoff" could trigger a response in the mind of the pilot and cause him to throw the throttles open prematurely. The correct command: "Taxi into position and hold...
...Credit Society. To graybeards raised in a cash economy, the proliferation of goods and services that can be bought with credit is even more startling. Houses, cars, furniture, appliances, airline tickets barely begin the list. Rents at the Promenade Apartments in Los Angeles, ski-lift tickets in Aspen, Colo., taxi rides in St. Louis, veterinary services in Jacksonville, and treatment in the emergency rooms of Atlanta's hospitals can all be charged on credit cards. So can admission to a nudist camp in Yugoslavia, birth-control counseling by Planned Parenthood of Pittsburgh and funerals conducted by the Parkside Memorial...
Costly Cabbie. Still, Buffalo also discovered its dark side during the siege. There was widespread looting of abandoned vehicles and vacant drug and jewelry stores. On a single night, 60 arrests were made by justifiably angry police. There were some profiteers too. One taxi driver would not take stranded people from the Greater Buffalo International Airport to a motel-a distance of about 100 yards-unless he could round up five-passenger loads at $10 per person...