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...some of the accidents, if not all, were due to CAA's reorganization. The documentation came from the new Civil Aeronautics Board itself. In its analytical report of the crash of a United Air Liner on Bountiful Peak, northeast of Salt Lake City, last November (TIME, Nov. 17), CAB frankly admitted the probable cause of the accident: the Salt Lake City radio range going out of whack before United's veteran pilot, Howard Fey, started to let down through a snowy overcast. More, CAB cited a miserable record of neglect, indecision and ignorance by its employes...
...Salt Lake City range is notoriously skittish. A heavy snowfall often knocks its radio beams out of kilter. In its 120-page crash report, CAB told what it had done to make instrument approaches to Salt Lake City safe. Three radio operators in outlying stations were ordered to listen to the range once an hour, be sure it was working as it should. The operator at Salt Lake City had the same duty. And just to make doubly sure, a recorder was installed near the Salt Lake City airport, recorded the functioning of the beam on a paper tape...
...this scheme work out? CAB admitted that it did not work out at all. Howard Fey crashed around 4:42 a.m. The tape showed that the beam had begun to act up three hours before. But none of the four listeners had noticed it. Trip 16's company of ten had been dead on the mountainside for an hour before Operator Daley at Salt Lake City discovered that the range was out of order. (Mr. Daley had overslept, was five hours late relieving Operator Andrews...
Beyond this miserable handling of an emergency, what stunned CAB men most was that none of the four men in the monitor stations knew what the beam was about, none had any idea of the urgency of reporting bad operation. For this, CAB, inferentially, took the blame. It had given each a book to read about radio ranges. All they had to do was initial it, to signify they understood...
Since 1937, American Export Lines, Inc. (steamships) has been determined that its airline subsidiary would fly the Atlantic in competition with Pan American's Clippers. Export's ambition has been approved by President Roosevelt, CAB, the Army, Navy and State Department. But last year a $500,000 mail subsidy needed to start the flights was refused by both Senate and House appropriations committees. Last week Export again drew an emphatic thumbs down from the House committee. Since the company now must wait for Congress' next budget bill to try again, and since every defeat makes a reversal...