Word: caa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transcontinental Flight 6, eastbound from Kansas City, was over the Missouri River just west of Lambert-St. Louis Field. A few minutes before, the airport radio had given veteran Pilot P. T. W. Scott the St. Louis weather. The ceiling was down to the bare CAA minimum: 400 feet. There were scattered clouds at 200, visibility was two miles. Wind: north northeast 6 (miles an hour). With eleven passengers behind in berths and seats, Captain Scott and his co-pilot had a job on their hands that has long since ceased to worry good airmen: an instrument landing...
...that time U. S. airlines had flown 15 months without a fatal crash. This week, as Pilot Scott was buried, fellow airmen recalled their warning, given to the President by the airlines and the Air Line Pilots' Association, and echoed by Senator Pat McCarran, author of the old CAA law: that to keelhaul a successful agency was to invite disaster...
...Senate and announced the news. "I bring this matter to the attention of the Senate." said he, "in order that they may know that we were right in the first instance when we passed the act creating an independent agency. . . . When the Safety Board was abolished, when the CAA . . . was sent back into the Department of Commerce, chaos and confusion resulted...
...crash put Franklin Roosevelt's new CAB on a hotter spot than ever. Thirteen of the airlines' perfect 17 months were flown under the supervision of the old Civil Aeronautics Authority. By Presidential order, CAA was taken from its independent status last May, made a bureau under the Department of Commerce. Part of the order abolished the independent Air Safety Board. Last week, while many an airman talked behind his hand of disorder and dissension in the new bureau. Senator Pat McCarran once again trumpeted the same charge from a Nevada mountaintop. "Chaos and confusion" in CAB, cried...
...Safety Board to investigate accidents, and to make recommendations as a result of its investigations, to prevent accidents, and to make investigations into situations that may be potential crashes. ..." From Pat McCarran came a grim promise: a bill to be filed in January, re-establishing the old CAA...