WR,
     In a message dated 04-23-98 you wrote ...
> 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. 
   You should know the news media by now... about like "Tarmac"
> Anybody know?
>
> ~Mitch
>
>
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