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Richard M. Dorson '37, Alvah W. Sulloway '33, John C. Develin '38, Daniel E. Burbank, Jr. '37, and George B. Blake '39 all took their games...
...complaint than that United pilots, nonchalant from long experience, sometimes skimmed startlingly low over the tumbled Tehachapi Mountains. Last week it became United's turn to demonstrate that "pride goeth before destruction." Skimming over the Teha-chapis only 20 miles from Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal at Burbank, Flight 34 smashed into the top of Oak Mountain, brought death to twelve people...
...plane, a twin-motored Boeing, had left San Francisco at 5:30 that afternoon, streaked down the San Joaquin Valley at some 200 m.p.h. toward the first stop at Burbank. Aboard were two pilots, pretty Hostess Yvonne Trego, and nine passengers, including a member of Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra, an artist from Walt Disney's studio and young Edward Thomas Ford Jr., son of the vice president of the Grace Lines, with his pretty wife. The weather was not bad: at Bakersfield the ceiling was 3,500 ft., at Burbank 3,000 ft. The peaks on both sides...
...Blom's voice came crisply through the ether asking Burbank for a radio bearing. The Burbank operator was puzzled to note that Pilot Blom was using a daytime radio frequency. He asked the plane's position. Pilot Blom replied: "Wait a minute." The operator waited. But he heard no voice through his earphones, no drone of motors in the sky. In a few minutes frantic United launched a search, but not until next morning did a flyer spot the tragedy from...
Some 50 miles northwest of Burbank the San Joaquin Valley is bitten off by the small Tehachapi Mountains, which link the Coastal ranges to the main Sierra Nevada. Between the Tehachapis and the fertile San Fernando Valley, where lies Burbank, is a knot of rugged, tawny, 3,500-ft. ridges littered with olive-green scrub oaks. Into one of these ridges Pilot Blom had plowed at full speed. For 1,000 yd. the big plane sheared the trees, losing both wings and finally bashing to a stop in a deep ravine. Everyone was killed instantly. Soapy Blom saw the crash...