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...astonished by the weather. "See all those icicles on the back there and everything?" Minutes later Pettit said, "Boy, this is a losing battle trying to de-ice those things. It [gives] you a false sense of security, that's all it does." Replied the pilot, Captain Larry Wheaton, 34: "That, ah, satisfies the feds...
Unlike the pilots of several nearby planes, Wheaton and Pettit, neither of whom had had extensive experience flying in such weather, never mentioned to the control tower their concern about the ice each saw building up on the wings. Pettit said only to his pilot: "This one's got about a quarter to half an inch [of ice] on it." Despite the unequivocal federal regulation against flying with snow, frost or ice on the wings or engines, they taxied out to take off. Pettit was at the controls. "Slushy runway. Do you want me to do anything special...
...accelerating plane splashed down the runway, Pettit was alarmed by the instrument readings for engine thrust. "God," he said, "look at that thing. That don't seem right, does it? Ah, that's not right." Wheaton: "Yes, it is." Pettit: "Naw, I don't think that's right. Ah, maybe it is. I don't know...
...jetliner took off. Seventeen seconds later, already alerted to the danger of a stall by the rattle of the control stick, Wheaton tried to will Flight 90 aloft. "Forward, forward. Come on, forward. Forward! Just barely climb." Five seconds later Pettit knew it was over. "Larry," he said, "we're going down, Larry...
Women's cross country vs. Wheaton, Franklin Park...