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...throttles wide open, the Star of the East, a DC-4 of Pan American World Airways' Cuban affiliate Aviacion Cubana, roared northeastward out of Bermuda's Kindley Field before dawn one day last week. Just after the takeoff, one of the four engines of the Madrid-to-Havana plane faltered. "I was just going to run to the front of the cabin and warn the passengers when we hit the water," Steward Orlando Lopez Suarez later recalled. "The tail broke off ... I found a rubber dinghy, but it was punctured and would not inflate . . . then the plane sank...
...this route Braniff paralleled a service long operated by Pan Am's Mexican subsidiary, Compañia Mexicana de Aviacion, S.A., which protested loudly against the operating permit granted to Braniff by the Minister of Communications. When protests failed, C.M.A. resorted to deeds. The resulting intercompany battle that marked the first round-trip Braniff flight from Mexico City to Merida was in the best swashbuckling tradition of business below the border...
...crumb popped into Pan Am's mouth: one of the five companies favored was Compañia Nacional Cubana de Aviacion, which Pan Am owns. The other two companies: Expreso Aereo Inter-Americano, S.A., for service between Miami and Havana; and Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM), Miami to Curaçao and Aruba...
...lost money last year. Such operators have been hanging on with the sole hope of acquiring mail contracts. Last week Pickwick Latin-American Airways Inc. found its burden too great, suspended its service between Los Angeles, Mexico City and San Salvador. Other U. S.-Mexico airlines: Compania Mexicana de Aviacion (subsidiary of U. S.-owned Pan American Airways, Inc.) and Corporacion Aeronautica de Transportes ("CAT lines") which connects with domestic routes at El Paso and Brownsville...
...MORRISON Manager Traffic Department Cia. Mexicana de Aviacion, S.A. Tampico, Mexico...
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