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...scattered fragments had hardly cooled when Civil Aeronautics Board investigators arrived to inspect the wreckage. Last week the CAB was circulating its report on Flight 476: an example of the meticulous detective work that it does to find the culprits, men or machines, responsible for every major airline crash. Since Jan. 1, 1954, it has analyzed 401 accidents to U.S. airplanes. Its sleuths have marked only one of them "cause undetermined...
Guilty Cylinder. At the scene of the crash of Flight 476. the CAB men searched out every scrap of wreckage. Then all parts that might be concerned with the accident were taken to American Airlines' Overhaul and Supply Depot at Tulsa, where the No. 2 (righthand) engine, with its adjacent landing gear and wing structure was assembled in flight position. By this time the CAB detectives had a good notion where the trouble started, but they came to no decision until masses of evidence had been accumulated...
Suspicion pointed early to No. 12 cylinder, whose barrel had broken clear through. The CAB men sent the cylinder parts to the National Bureau of Standards, where laboratory examination showed several small fatigue cracks that had joined to form a single large crack one-third of the way around the cylinder. The steel itself proved sound, with no microscopic abnormalities that might have caused the cracks. So there must be other culprits...
...CAB detectives turned next to the cylinder's records, which must be kept meticulously by every airline. Cylinder No. 12 had first been installed in the No. 18 position in another engine. After 1,052 hours of operation, eight of its hold-down studs had failed. The damage had been found on a routine inspection; the cylinder had been removed and sent to American's base at Tulsa...
...matchmaker blows out every match she gets lighted, till she herself manages to become the conquering flame. The story does nothing so genteel as unfold. It catapults and ricochets: characters bounce out of trapdoors, squeeze into closets, hide under tables, eavesdrop behind screens; boys dress up as girls and cab drivers loop with drink, identities are mistaken and purses mislaid. There is all the homey, cheerful pandemonium of a horse-and-buggy age whose inhabitants may have been inhibited but whose playwriting decidedly...