Word: cab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Trouble. Almost three times as many people (150) were killed in crashes of domestic scheduled airlines in the first six months this year, said CAB, as in the first half of 1946. More planes are flying this year, so the death rate per miles flown was not up as much. Yet at 5.8 per 100,000,000 passenger miles, the rate was still more than double last year...
After a preliminary investigation, CAB Chairman James Landis made an obvious preliminary finding: the plane had crashed while going down through the overcast. But why? Pilot error? Instrument failure? CAB inspectors set out for the answer. President Truman appointed a five-member board to study all the recent air accidents. In three weeks, 146 people had died in the flaming wreckage...
Timesaver. CAB issued the first helicopter mail-operating certificate to Los Angeles Airways, Inc. The helicopters, windmilling over Los Angeles between the municipal airport and postoffices, will save as much as 24 hours on airmail deliveries, CAB estimates...
...first white-faced relatives arrived, CAB field inspectors probed in the wreckage, interviewed eyewitnesses and searched the country round about for an explanation of the crash. They soon found a part of the answer. A quarter of a mile from the crash they found pieces of the plane's tail surfaces. Almost certainly they had been torn off in flight. What had shorn them off? CAB inspectors were not yet ready to say at week's end. Many an airplane pilot guessed that a propeller had failed, that a blade had hurtled back and cut into the tail...
...Paul, Frank Meyers, who as a successful horse trader has banked more than $250,000, gave his reason for becoming a cab driver at 62: "I like to meet people and hear their troubles...