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...accidents, occurring within ten days of each other, have naturally had a great effect on the Flying Club aside from the loss of the two ships, out according to the president, T. B. Eastland, '33, every effort will be made to carry on. The last plane to crash, a type of ship new in the east, was being flown at the time by men representing an aviation company which had borrowed the ship for demonstration purposes. For this reason, no action is expected by college officials...
...immemorial forest silence of General Grant National Park in California was broken last week by a terrific, thundering crash. The mighty sequoia tree named "Michigan" had broken from its 27-ft. base and sprawled its length of 275 ft. upon the forest floor. An old burn had apparently unbalanced it, while its roots were loosened by a tiny spring. The great tree's fall smashed it to smithereens, some pieces flying 500 yards. Still stood greatest "General Grant," 40 ft. through the butt...
...other crash cases the defense pleaded Act-of-God (TIME, March 30 et ante), summoned such expert witnesses as Frank Monroe Hawks, Bernt Balchen and Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones to testify that the company had taken reasonable care, that the pilot had done his best in an emergency. But for the plaintiffs Attorney Ernest P. Biro (his famed witness was Clarence Chamberlin) argued that the emergency was of Pilot Foote's own making: attempting to turn at low altitude after a motor...
Last week's crash shocked the whole U. S. not alone because of the fame of a passenger, but because it was the first "bad" accident in transport service in more than a year. (In January 1930, 16 persons perished in the T. A. T.-Maddux crash in California...
...British dirigible R-101 crashed in France and killed 48 occupants because of leaking gas and bad weather. That fact, which everyone already knew, was virtually the sum total of the long-awaited report of the court of inquiry, delivered last week in London. The investigators fixed no blame upon Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, the Secretary of State for Air (killed in the crash) who was said to have hastened the start of the flight to India to precede the opening of the Imperial Conference. But they gingerly admitted that the inadequately tested ship ''would not have started...