A real air scare

This qualifies as a Twilight Zone moment. On Friday, the charter flight carrying the Marshall University football team to its road game at East Carolina was delayed for two hours after smoke began pouring out of one of the engines.
Fortunately, none of the 150 people aboard the plane were injured but there were more than a few rattled nerves because of the timing of the mechanical malfunction.
Almost 36 years ago to the day, a plane carrying the Marshall football team home from a game at -- cue spooky music -- East Carolina crashed on Nov. 14, 1970, killing 75 people aboard. Most of the football team perished in the crash. A movie about the tragedy, ‘‘We Are Marshall,’’ opens Dec. 22.
It's frightening to think that something like that could have happened to that university again.
If I'm a Marshall player, however, I think I would insist on going Greyhound from now on.