"It was a black, black day."
Source: Airline History Museum President Foe
Geldersma, in an interview with the Kansas City Star, on the
destruction of America's last flying Lockheed Constellation's
number two engine, which dramatically failed during a routine
maintenance check on the ground. Oil and gallons of burning fuel
spewed from three failed cylinders. Some of the burning fuel was
sprayed onto the skin of the aircraft, disfiguring it. The question
now is, how the museum will be able to afford repairs.
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