working with quotes assignment

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"The plane was approaching the airport with a 500-foot ceiling and a one-mile visibility.

One eyewitness said, "I saw the plane coming lower and lower. I couldn't believe it. I thought surely it would go back up into the air. But it kept coming down. I knew it would never make it to the airport. I was scared." 

"I hope this never happens to da great city of Chicago again," Alderman James Stanley said. "And it ain't gonna happen. Not if I can help it." 

Another eyewitness said, "And to think, all this happened because the pilot probably had one too many cocktails during the flight." 

"I thought surely it would go back up into the air. But it kept coming down."

PARAPHRASE:
"The plane, Flight 553, was due at Midway at 2:31 p.m. CST," a United spokesman said. "The plane was approaching the airport with a 500-foot ceiling and a one-mile visibility." He said the plane's final destination was Omaha, Neb. 

"organize a children's Christmas party."