Word: caa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Searchers at Sunapee hoped to reach the top of the mountain by 5:30 a.m., and CAA and Newport Airport airplanes were planning to join the search at dawn...
...residents said early this morning that a plane flying up from the direction of Newport. N.H., had crashed near the top of Bald Mountain. They described the sound of the engine as more like a commercial plane than a light plane. This description might tally with Moses 'plane, the CAA said...
...CAA doubted that the Buzzards Bay crash involved Moses, because it had occurred at about 4:50 p.m. But the Sunapee crash came at about 6 p.m., late enough for Moses to have arrived in the area, had he strayed off his course...
Last week, CAA acted. Charging Strato-Freight with overloading and persistent violation of safety regulations (e.g., it had ignored a badly frayed flap follow-up cable), CAA ordered the airline to stop flying. It was the first time that CAA which usually leaves such police action to the Civil Aeronautics Board, had grounded an overseas airline...
...airlines pilots holding medical certificates from the CAA in 1946, only 9.7% were 40 or over, 3.2% were 45 or over, 1.3% were 50 or over...