Thursday mornings I usually pull a six hour shift at the
SeaTac Airport USO. My job has evolved
into handling our luggage room, where folks in transit can store their
suitcases, duffel bags, etc. so they don’t have to lug them around during their
stay. Yesterday several of us were
discussing interesting take-offs and landings we had either experienced or had
heard about. Since we are all veterans
(another Army guy, a retired naval jet jockey and me) there were naturally a
lot of stories to be told.
Well, I remembered one that I had heard about and had later
found on Youtube about the Seaboard World stretch DC-8 that had been cleared to
land at Danang AFB but landed instead at Marble Mountain. Below I’ve linked the movies that Stan Bloom and
somebody else shot the morning it took off from that shorter-than-normal runway
in 1968. Fasten your seatbelt and make
sure you tray is in the upright and locked position!
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