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...radio that he planned to crash the plane in a gravel pit and kill himself as soon as he used up his fuel supply. "Everything's all messed up," he cried. For more than three hours his plane circled overhead. Friends flew to Abilene, joined airport and CAA officials in pleading with him by radio to land. Cried Cox: "If you had done what I did, you wouldn't land." At 9:55 Cox put his plane into a dive, hit the ground and died in a welter of splintered fuselage and smoking metal...
Afterward the CAA dutifully announced a triumph of macabre bureaucracy: it had made a three-hour tape recording of Cox's last words in the hope of revoking his pilot's license if he did not kill himself...
...showed. The operator estimated that they were about 15 miles southwest of Washington. Then the blips disappeared abruptly and reappeared a few seconds later over northeast Washington. The operator called his boss, Senior Controller Harry Barnes, 39, a graduate of the Buffalo Technical Institute who has worked for the CAA as an electronics expert since 1941. The operator told Barnes: "Here are some flying saucers...
Sirens screamed through the afternoon, and the last flames were still flickering when furious citizens began their protest. The airport must go. All week long, investigators swarmed over the scene-from Washington, from the New Jersey legislature, from the CAA, the CAB. But Elizabethans were not half so interested in causes of the crash as they were in the exasperating probability that the airport would operate as usual, at least for ten months. Then, if construction is complete, a new instrument runway will bring traffic in over the marshlands to the east...
Northwest says it hasn't lost faith in the 202s, is selling half of them simply because it needs more four-motored planes for freight and long hauls. As for the remaining ten 202s, Northwest President Croil Hunter has his mechanics modifying them to meet CAA's recommendations. When the 202s are ready, he expects to have them in the air again...