Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The U.A.L. DC-8, directed to circle at Preston, would, when cleared, have normally flown eastward toward Idlewild's ILS glide path. U.A.L. Pilot R. H. Sawyer acknowledged and confirmed his instructions from Air Traffic Control to circle Preston, and his acknowledgment was the last contact Idlewild ever got...
"Everything-Everything." The midair collision cost the lives of 139 men, women and children-the highest toll in commercial aviation history.
The last to die was the frail, fire-tortured Stephen Baltz. After more than 24 hours of half-life, of fighting to smile for his father, the boy closed his eyes and, said a doctor, "went to sleep." His father William, an Admiral Corp. vice president who had flown in...
Said the hospital chaplain: "This is a devil of a thing. When you do everything -everything-and you lose out. God!"