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The tragic coincidences prompted Ohio's Governor James A. Rhodes to request closure of the runway. Rhodes claimed that pilots approaching Runway 18 are buffeted by downdrafts over the hills and that the rolling terrain causes a form of optical illusion. Though neither of these complaints figures in warnings to pilots using the field, the crash of Flight 128 will reinforce demands by Ohioans to move Cincinnati's main airport away from Kentucky and into their own state.