THE GLORY OF '57

Posted Mar 15, 2007

Joe Quigg stared down at the crowd, an estimated 10,000 people swarming on to the tarmac at Raleigh-Durham on March 24, 1957. In the cockpit, the flight crew was considering landing in Greensboro to avoid the madhouse down below and the fear of Carolina fans running into prop blades. Nothing like this had ever happened around here, or would again. (Inside Carolina)

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