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...made some experiments on the subject, the Civil Aeronautics Administration said soothingly last week that such disasters are no great peril just now, because airliners do not fly high enough. But cruising altitudes are increasing. In an effort to make airplane manufacturers fully conscious of future dangers, the CAA made a movie which chilled the blood of hard-boiled air designers...
...decided to leave the building, there was no waiting car. His pilot, Lieut. Colonel Anthony Story, asked a civilian behind the wheel of a battered jeep: Would he give General MacArthur a ride? Said the driver, glumly: "Well, if it's an order ..." Finally, the colonel flagged a CAA pickup truck; MacArthur and the pilot bumped...
Just before 11 p.m. he reported on course over Battle Creek, Mich.; a quarter-hour later, when he was starting across Lake Michigan into the storm, he asked air traffic control for permission to drop a thousand feet from his assigned 3,500-ft. altitude. CAA said no, there was too much traffic already running at the lower level. Neither Pilot Lind nor the 57 others aboard was ever heard from again...
...Captain Erick Rios Bridoux, Bolivian airman, was accused by the Civil Aeronautics Administration of flying in a "careless and reckless manner" and blamed for the Nov. 1 air collision which killed 55 passengers of an Eastern Air Lines DC-4 at Washington National Airport. The CAA, however, has no power to fix final responsibility; that is the job of the Civil Aeronautics Board...
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...