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This is about the Italian airliner which undershot the runway and crashed* at [New York's] Idlewild [ Airport ] after failing three times to hold the instrument glide-path which would have brought it down to the runway. It is written on the idea that the instrument or instruments-altimeter-cum-drift-indicator-failed or had failed, was already out of order or incorrect. It is written in grief. Not just for the sorrow of the bereaved ones of those who died in the crash, and for the airline, but for the pilot himself, who, along with his unaware passengers...
...crammed with 86 southbound migrants missed a curve, plunged into a ravine, killed the driver and seven passengers. At Teresópolis, northeast of Rio, rain-loosened mud and rocks thundered down a hill, burying a freight train, a warehouse and four railhands. A Panair do Brasil DC-3 undershot the Uberlãndia airfield, 500 miles north of Rio, and crashed into a clump of trees, killing nine and injuring 23. But of all the week's disasters, the famed Rio Carnival was the worst. Rio's festival record: 22 dead and 4,612 injured-including...
...sent to the Missouri State Penitentiary, where he gained a measure of fame among the convicts by hitting a fellow inmate over the head with a baseball bat. When he got out last year, he was 21a short, heavy-shouldered, brooding youth with a pimply, undershot chin, and the legend H-a-r-d L-u-c-k tattooed on his knuckles...
Hangar-on. In Phoenix, Ariz., 58-year-old Amateur Pilot James Taylor undershot the airport, but wiggled to a successful landing on the hangar roof...
Since then Fred Nolan has kept his heavy undershot jaw set for his two favorite principles: 1) that transportation, like any other commodity, must be cheap to be sold in quantity and at a profit; 2) that transportation must follow population...