Crash-Landing By Electra
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) FORT WORTH (Texas), July 21. A Commercial International Airlines Electra, with 38 people aboard, circled Houston international airport for nearly 40 minutes on Tuesday night with disabled landing gear, then flew to Carswell Air Force base for a wheels-up landing. The Electra skidded to a halt in a showei of sparks on a foam-covered runway at the Carswell base after a 300mile detour.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31118, 22 July 1966, Page 11
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