The Nation - News from June 26, 1987
A small rocket glided past a Delta Air Lines jet 29,500 feet over Charleston, W. Va., officials said. There were about 60 people on the Boeing 737, en route from Pittsburgh to Atlanta, when the missile passed about 600 feet below, apparently out of fuel, going in the opposite direction at high speed, said Delta spokesman Bill Berry and Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jack Barker. Barker said officials are not ruling out the possibility it was a homemade rocket. The Pentagon said it was not involved in the incident.
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