* James Greenway Sr.; Fell Halfway Out of Airliner

James Greenway Sr., 96, featured in newspapers around the world after he fell partway out of a commercial airplane. Greenway, then 48, was an active-duty Army Reserve officer when he flew to New York on a United Airlines DC-6 on Oct. 2, 1954. As he dozed with his seat belt loosened 13,000 feet above Indiana, the emergency hatch beside his seat flew off, leaving him dangling partly outside the propeller-driven plane. Greenway, a native of Washington, managed to reach back into the plane, and other passengers hauled him into the cabin, badly bruised and his clothing in tatters. “He wasn’t going to tell anybody, but a reporter in the airport found out about it and it made world news, very much to my dad’s chagrin,” said his son, Robert. On Jan. 21 at the VA Medical Center in Seattle of complications from a stroke.