Plane With Kemp, Thurmond Makes Emergency Landing
A small airplane carrying Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), a potential 1988 presidential candidate, and Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), made an emergency landing at an airport, officials said today.
Kemp, Thurmond and Rep. Arthur Ravenel Jr. (R-S.C.) were traveling Wednesday evening to a political dinner in Columbia, S.C., when the twin-engine craft’s right engine failed.
Crash, fire and rescue crews stood by while the plane made the forced landing at Raleigh-Durham Airport, officials said.
An air services company was able to rent the politicians another plane.
“There were a lot of prayers said up there,” Kemp told supporters at the dinner for Henry McMaster, who lost to Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.).
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