Word: crashes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Live on Air,† his masterwork is sometimes lively, sometimes arch, in describing strange doings that range from wiring the pyramids in Egypt for sound to putting on a contest among singing mice. Many are the bad aerial breaks that he recalls. After an announcement of the Macon crash, while listeners were waiting frantically to find out how many had been killed, Ben Bernie cut loose with a number that ran: "Take a number from one to ten, double it and add a million." Equally inappropriate, if not quite so ghoulish, was a tune that followed the broadcast of Roosevelt...
WASHINGTON--The fatal crash of an Eastern Airplanes sleeper plane near Atlanta today revived the bitter Congressional fight which last year almost blocked reorganization of the Civil Aeronautics authority...
...Almost as high as the 1929 pre-crash peak...
...scrambled up two of the most successful Government supervisory agencies airmen had ever seen. By executive order he made the independent Civil-Aeronautics Authority an appendage of the Department of Commerce, abolished the equally independent Air Safety Board. Airline men had found that the supervision of CAA and the "crash board" was hard-boiled but good; the lines had set an unprecedented record of 15 months' operation without an accident. Since the change there have been four fatal airline accidents, a fifth in which an airliner was destroyed. ¶ Last week pilots and operators had documentation for what...
...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...