On 04-20-98, JIM SANDERS most eloquently expounded thus...
>           Passengers panic after false cry of fire on plane
> 
>      CHICAGO - April 20, 1998 08:37 a.m. EDT -- Passengers panicked
>  aboard an American Airlines plane at O'Hare International Airport
>  when someone saw sparks bounce off a wing before takeoff and
>  shouted, "Fire!"
>      The sparks are a routine occurrence, Bond said. But the passen-
Hi Jim... or anybody else...
With regard to the NEWS you posted, I was trying to figure out 
what kind of passenger plane generated "sparks" off the wing, 
as a "routine occurrence".
 
Sure different than any plane I've ever has anything to do with. 
Anybody know?
~Mitch
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