Trouble on Air West Flight; Illegal Street Racing

Twin-prop Air West F27 airliner N781R landing at Medford Airport, fire engine drives to meet it / shot from moving car over driver's shoulder of runway / taxiing airliner, pan to airport control tower / Medford Police car in foreground, liner in background / / Start/Finish line hand-painted on asphalt (Vilas Road?), pan to vanishing point of road / pan along finish line / shot up street in other direction / pan along street to rough section--Start/Finish line ground away / pan up unpaved section, where line was Despite appearances, there apparently was no trouble on the Air West flight. See caption, Medford Mail Tribune July 3, 1968, page 8, announcing new Air West schedule using "the new larger size DC9-30 jets," the result of the merger of Air West with West Coast, Pacific and Bonanza air lines.