JIM,
     In a message dated 02-15-98 you wrote ...
> Same bird at ORD. Heavy fog ceiling 100 and the AAL B727 hit the
> approach lights, wiped off one or more of the landing gear and the #1
> engine broke off the mounts. Plane then skidded 2500 feet. Small piece
> in the AM news that AAL had changed landing criteria for B727s and other
> older birds without equipment extreme low ceilings. To compound the
> problem, a UAL bird was cleared to land with the AAL partially
> obstructing the runway. UAL touched down, seen the B727 and climbed out.
> Amazingly little comment on TV.
    I guess that the InterNet news was all that carried it back
 here. InterNet has been good about getting news out a day or
 so sooner...
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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