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Article: Who ordered jumbo sausage ?
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 10, 2001
CopyrightCopyright 2001 Evening Standard - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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A RUNAWAY blimp crashed into a waterfront restaurant after the two
men on board were forced to jump from its gondola.
The pilot had attempted an emergency landing at Oakland airport,
near San Francisco, but he and a student pilot - the only two on
board - could not control the airship and a landing crew was unable
to tie it down.
The men jumped to safety and the blimp then meandered for 20
minutes. It floated five miles north over the Oakland estuary, at one
point ...