Southwest Cooperating in Midway Runway Incursion Investigation

I still remember KABQ from 69, right after 737's came out. Frontier was running them and they had one running late out of Vegas. I was on the OB deck at the Sunport listening to ATC. They put a Continental DC-9 in on the 37's tail and got a good lesson of just how slow one could approach and how short a space a 37 could land in. Bottom line was, a good heads up by the Continental crew. Gear up, black smoke, hard right; missed the top of the 37's tail by about 15'. Needless to say there was conversation after that one. Separation was on track on the handoff but lot's of difference in approach speed anyway and the 37 had everything dragging to hang onto min. speed to make early turnout. Controller said he should have given the Continental a go around but he figured the Frontier would go on into runway and clear but it didn't happen.