Word: runway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YORK--A USAir 737 carrying 62 people skidded off a runway on takeoff from LaGuardia Airport and splashed into the East River late last night, killing at least three people, authorities said...
Milligan said the plane skidded off the runway during takeoff and landed in the water, about 2000 feet from the end of the runway...
...runway rap session came to light last week after a Dallas TV station asked a state judge for a copy of the tape from the plane's cockpit voice recorder. The National Transportation Safety Board, which had released a highly censored transcript of the conversation, asserted that disclosure of the entire conversation might hamper investigations of airline disasters. The Air Line Pilots Association warned that pilots might disable their voice recorders to prevent future "invasion of their privacy" but later added that legislation to ban the release of tapes might be proposed instead. What jittery airline passengers were supposed...
After circling several more times, the plane landed by dropping its wing wheels deftly to the runway in a gentle, but ungainly, landing, its nose scraping the pavement...
...Suddenly you were on the runway with foam on your face and on your back," she said, adding that she probably would take the train back to New York...