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...minutes after taking off from Barbados airport on Oct. 6, the pilot of Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 radioed that there had been an explosion on his plane and that he was heading back. He never made it. Carrying 73 passengers and crew, including Cuba's crack Olympic fencing team, the flaming DC-8 nosedived into the Caribbean. There were no survivors...
Sound-Off. Near the end of the war he had his first real skirmish with Pan Am, when he tried to operate a route in Mexico, where Pan Am's affiliate, Compania Mexicana de Aviación S.A., was already well established (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945). Braniff finally lost the Mexican routes when he made the Mexicans mad by sounding off against local government officials...
...Sign. On the way home from dinner, Sandino, a Freemason, was seized by a group of armed men, and hustled away. Soon after, a Guardia officer called the barracks, reported that Sandino had given the Masonic sign of distress. Freemason Somoza, unmoved, roared: "Carry out your orders!" At La Aviación field, on the southeast edge of Managua, guns cracked. Sandino is buried, say Nicaraguans, just under the runway TACA planes...
...airport blocked by armed airport guards. Reason: the Ministry of Communications and Public Works had refused Braniff's application for five air routes, had canceled the temporary permit under which the company had been operating in competition with Pan Am's affiliate, Compaña Mexicana de Aviación, S. A. Said the ministry: a "technical study" had shown that present service by C.M.A. in Mexico was entirely adequate, therefore no competition was necessary...
...comparison, the story of the first U.S. ventures, involved in the tangle of airmail contracts in the U.S.. embittered by perplexing fights over routes, makes chastening reading for Americans. A few people-Elmer Faucett of Compaňia de Aviación Faucett and Hugh Wells of Cóndor Peruana de Aviación-challenged the European combines. The German stranglehold was broken when Axis airlines were nationalized by Latin American governments in the past two years. And now, says Aviation Assistant Burden, in cautious language: "The airplane promises to give Latin America a semblance of physical unity...