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...cloud base was only 300 feet off the ground and even this ceiling was variable. Standing on the ground, a man could see only one mile; beyond that range, drizzling rain and thin fog blotted out lights. Had the weather been a jot worse-it was down to CAA minimum-Jim Perry would have had to land somewhere else...
...McCarran, Democrat of Nevada, described the tragedy as "legalized murder" and demanded enactment of his bill to re-establish the CAA and the Air Safety Board as independent agencies. The Safety Board was abolished and the CAA became a commerce department unit under a presidential reorganization order which became effective last July...
...June Franklin Roosevelt scrambled up two of the most successful Government supervisory agencies airmen had ever seen. By executive order he made the independent Civil-Aeronautics Authority an appendage of the Department of Commerce, abolished the equally independent Air Safety Board. Airline men had found that the supervision of CAA and the "crash board" was hard-boiled but good; the lines had set an unprecedented record of 15 months' operation without an accident. Since the change there have been four fatal airline accidents, a fifth in which an airliner was destroyed. ¶ Last week pilots and operators had documentation...
Pilots who have completed the CAA training have an edge over others, since they seldom flunk out of this Cadet Training course in spite of greater severity in the Army requirements...
...Senate and announced the news. "I bring this matter to the attention of the Senate." said he, "in order that they may know that we were right in the first instance when we passed the act creating an independent agency. . . . When the Safety Board was abolished, when the CAA . . . was sent back into the Department of Commerce, chaos and confusion resulted...