Word: caa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons why T.W.A. needed the cash were dismally plain. In the third quarter, T.W.A. reported last week, it had lost $3,235,491, bringing the net loss for the first nine months to $4,846,450. The third quarter losses, said President Jack Frye, were caused by CAA's grounding of Constellations. And the pilots' strike was likely to make the fourth quarter the worst of the year...
...part of the trouble lies with the CAA," says FORTUNE, "it is up to the airlines to build bonfires under CAA. If part of the trouble lies in [city-owned, politics-ridden airports], let the airlines put pressure on the municipalities." In short, the airlines have a big job to do-somehow...
Safety Order. Hurriedly the Civil Aeronautics Administration swung into action. Before the embers had cooled, CAA cracked down with an order it had never before invoked*: all Constellations would be grounded for 30 days while the crash was investigated...
Despite the confusion and inconvenience, most laymen heartily approved CAA's action. Reason: the "Star of Lisbon" was the third Constellation to catch fire and crash-land in the last ten months. The first, an Army plane manned by a Pan American crew, went down near Linn, Kans. in September. The second was a commercial Pan American ship (carrying members of London's Old Vic company back to Britain), which dropped an engine and squeaked into Willimantic, Conn, last month...
Safety Device. There had been other, less serious accidents. Often Constellation engines (Wright 2,500 h.p.) had blazed up as a result of fires in the fuel-induction system. They were quickly brought under control. But the danger was so great that CAA and Lockheed engineers had designed and installed an elaborate fire detection and extinguishing system within the engine nacelles. Another protection item of dubious appeal to unsuspecting airline passengers: an easily melting engine mounting, which would allow a blazing motor to fall off before the fire wall in the wing was breached...