Word: bohnet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane was a Transcontinental & Western airliner which had taken off from Camden, N. J. in perfect mechanical condition with ten passengers, two pilots and a hostess, bound for Pittsburgh's Allegheny Airport. At the wheel was 32-year-old Captain Frederick Lawrence Bohnet, a TWA veteran. The sky was overcast but the weather relatively smooth. Flying above the clouds Capt. Bohnet brought his big ship to Pittsburgh without trouble. At 6:33 p. m. he crossed the airport "cone of silence" at 5,000 ft. out of sight of ground. He was ordered to circle once while another plane...
...that point he was spotted by another TWA pilot, Capt. A. M. Wilkins, flying in from the west at 700 ft. ready to land as soon as Bohnet was down. Wilkins saw the silvery monoplane about three miles ahead and 200 ft. lower in level flight. To his surprise he overtook it fast. When only a mile behind, Wilkins cut his speed in order not to pass Bohnet. Simultaneously he noticed that Bohnet was having trouble. Though the air was clear, with no turbulence whatever, the plane ahead was wallowing. A wing would go down five degrees, then wobble back...