Posted on 04/01/2002 10:50:36 AM PST by let freedom sing
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:34:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Observers at the annual Executive Airport air show that day in 1972 said they knew the old war jet on runway 12-30 wasn't going to make it. Its nose lifted once, then twice. Its tail never did.
Sixteen thousand pounds of bullet-shaped metal ricocheted off the berm next to Freeport Boulevard at 150 miles per hour and hurtled at eye level across the street, piercing one, then two cars.
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