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11-10-2006, 01:46 PM
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Marshall football plane evacuated for engine smoke
KENOVA, W.Va. -- A charter plane carrying the Marshall University football team to a game against East Carolina was evacuated Friday after smoke was reported in an engine, emergency officials said.
No injuries were reported among the 200 people aboard, but the timing was eerie. Almost 36 years ago, on Nov. 14, 1970, a plane carrying the Marshall football team home from a game against East Carolina crashed, killing 75 people, including most of the team. A movie about the rebuilding of Marshall's football program after that crash is scheduled to open nationwide on Dec. 22. Marshall's sports information director at the time, Gene Morehouse, died in that crash. On Friday, his son Keith Morehouse was aboard the plane headed for the game in Greenville, N.C. Morehouse, now sports director of WSAZ-TV in Huntington, and the other passengers calmly left the plane Friday and walked into the terminal. The team's departure was delayed for more than an hour. "I don't think it's as big a deal as some people are trying to make," Morehouse said. Marshall's current sports information director, Randy Burnside, said it was a mechanical problem with the plane. "It was a minor thing," Burnside said. "They should have this fixed. Everybody's fine." A spokeswoman with the Federal Aviation Administration did not immediately return a telephone message. Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2656671 |
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11-10-2006, 01:47 PM
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good timing with the movie coming out soon
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11-10-2006, 01:55 PM
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In other news, former Red Wing Bob Probert's '87 Mercury Lynx has a really, really leaky seal on it's water pump. Reports say that it had to be towed to Wolfis Automotive in London, Ontario, and Mr. Probert was forced to take a city bus home.
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11-10-2006, 01:56 PM
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11-10-2006, 01:58 PM
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I guess this is newsworthy because of the '70 crash and the new movie.
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11-10-2006, 02:00 PM
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11-10-2006, 02:01 PM
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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That was mighty objective of you. And flighty, as well.
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11-10-2006, 02:01 PM
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You ever been in a plane that's smoking? That's scary shit, hoss.
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11-10-2006, 02:06 PM
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No, but I've been on a horse that was drinking. I am on a lame-roll today!!! |
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11-10-2006, 02:16 PM
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No that's liquid terror. Thing might try to mount you.
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11-10-2006, 02:27 PM
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11-10-2006, 02:54 PM
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I heard Matthew McConaughey was seen sprinting from the scene of the smoking plane after stuffing half his stash into engine #3.
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11-10-2006, 03:35 PM
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Y'all are morons.
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