Runway 9-R at the time was 9350 feet long and appears to be pretty skinny for 4-engine jets. The runway was widened to 150 feet after this photo and extended to 13,002 feet in the early 1980's. What was really weird about our landing is that the FAA Tower advised our pilot that a four-engine jet was going to take off on runway 27-L and that he would climb over us on our approach. We all watched in awe of the big smoky jet on his takeoff run towards us and as planned he climbed over us. I've never seen an operation like that since then and I worked in Airside Operations at Miami International Airport for 26 years from 1974 to 2000. Randy Joiner from Auburndale, staying over the summer with his mom Dottie across the street from my home, was onboard this flight with me and I believe Eddie and Jack Sullivan were the other paying participants. We paid $18 ($4.50 each) for our half hour of flying around which I thought was cheap but a year or so ago I saw that we could have flown to Key West on scheduled flights for $22 round-trip so we overpaid. Randy and I are frequent e-mail correspondents and Facebook friends and I've gone to Auburndale to visit him a couple of times in recent years.
The image of the aircraft that we flew on is at http://www.pbase.com/airlinerphotos/image/99562896