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...Angeles one day last November, an attorney read down a list of 42 victims of a National Airlines DC-7B crash in the Gulf of Mexico and spotted the name of a client. It was Robert Vernon Spears, 65, naturopath* of Dallas and Los Angeles. The attorney soon got a call from a Los Angeles homicide squad lieutenant who had read the same list. "I wouldn't be surprised," said the lieutenant, "if Spears blew the plane up." As the Los Angeles police well knew, Robert Spears, a barefaced quack and crook, had a record of seven jail terms...
...Florida State Prison at Raiford, had been visiting her husband in Tampa. Two days later in the mail she got a $37,500 air-travel insurance policy taken out by Al Taylor (divorced but still friendly) at Tampa Airport just before take-off time of the doomed DC-7B. Taylor was missing, although he was not listed on the plane's manifest...
...week these strands came together in Phoenix, Ariz, in one of the great whodunits of airline history. They began to meet when the FBI arrested Robert Vernon Spears, presumed dead in the crash, but found alive and well. Had Al Taylor then gone to his death on the DC-7B on Spears's ticket? The FBI began to patch together the pieces to decide whether Spears 1) sent Al Taylor on the DC-7B with a bomb hidden in his luggage to blow up the plane, thereby to fake evidence of Spears's death, collect...
...telegram to FAAdministrator Elwood Quesada suggesting a charge that made more responsible pilots' union members gasp. The FAA's recently instituted pilot check procedure, Rohan implied, may have caused both the crash of National's DC-6B and the crash of a National-operated DC-7B (with 42 dead) last November over the Gulf of Mexico. FAA's pilot-proficiency tests require pilots to go through "approaches to stalls and unusual maneuvers . . . even though . . . these maneuvers are not necessary, and are deleterious to the air frame, and may eventually lead to the failure," wrote Rohan. National...
...than half of them on the ripe side of 60, voted nonetheless to accept Puerto Rico's invitation to the glossy Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan. Still protesting, Reuther and his wife flew down tourist class; up forward in the first-class section of the same DC-7B, United Electrical Workers' Boss