<p>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.</p>
<p>Its nose lifted once, then twice. Its tail never did.</p>
<p>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.</p>