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...Grand Canyon, looked into the whole question of aviation safety, it found that the U.S. was simply not prepared to handle the traffic jam in its skies. Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles J. Lowen suggested that progress could be made if Congress would approve the balance of funds for CAA's five-year plan to blanket the sky with long-range radar, which shows the exact position of all airborne planes. The committee chairman, West Virginia Democrat Robert H. Mollohan, then went Lowen one better. Why not telescope the CAA safety project into three years...
...apart (the slower Connie first) from Los Angeles International Airport. Now they were due to converge over the same color-drenched desert radio station at the same minute, both flying at exactly the same altitude. When, at 9:15 a.m., T.W.A.'s Captain Jack S. Gandy, 42, asked CAA for permission to fly his Constellation at 21,000 ft. instead of his assigned 19,000 ft., CAA had refused. But CAA granted Captain Gandy permission to fly at 1,000 ft. above the overcast, and when−as he reported−this turned...
After an hour of fruitless calling, CAA declared an emergency. From California, Arizona, Utah, from as far away as Texas, search planes ripped off the runways, fanned out to search for the missing airliners...
Caught between the crossfire of professionals and private airmen, the CAA has moved cautiously. New York City's Idlewild Airport is installing anew $761,000 system that enables ground controllers to keep track of all planes via more and better radio communication between pilot and controllers. Beyond that, CAA is conducting a special radar study at Washington National Airport on the problems of high-density air traffic control...
Though CAAdministrator Lee pleaded -and with reason-that he was hampered by a shortsighted appropriation policy in Congress, many airmen feel that he did not fight hard enough for more funds. Recently, stirred by the criticism, the CAA proposed its own compromise plan for a $916 million expenditure over the next five years...