The pilot and passenger of the Cessna aircraft got out before firefighters arrived and declined to be taken to a hospital.
The flight, which departed from Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., landed safely at Los Angeles ...
Readers who were around Nov. 14, 1970, can tell you where they were and what they were doing around 8:30 on that rainy night.
Passengers broke out in applause as the Alaska Airlines flight made a slightly bumpy but otherwise safe landing at LAX.