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...petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board for a 50?-per-ticket increase in first-class fares, hoping that the raise would make up for some of the $17 million in annual excess-baggage charges that will begin to diminish this week when more generous baggage allowances go into effect.* The CAB not only turned down the proposal, but told the lines that they are in an excellent position now to reduce fares. This was the board's first significant pronouncement under Lawyer Charles S. Murphy, 55, former Under Secretary of Agriculture, who stepped up to the CAB chairmanship last April...
...CAB, which can order the fare cuts if the airlines balk, was aroused by pressure in Congress and by the industry's earnings jump after 1963. Profits of the eleven trunk lines rose astronomically, from $10.7 million in 1963 to $136.5 million last year, and will rise even higher in 1965. As a group, the lines have slightly topped the 10.5% return on investment that the CAB considers equitable, and several are doing much better than that...
...night before its last flight, the aircraft and its instruments were serviced-after a fashion. Paradise had no maintenance crews or facilities of its own, farmed out all such work to an FAA-approved Oakland maintenance station with licensed mechanics. The CAB found that the mechanic who worked on the Paradise plane's compass had never before dealt with one like it; moreover, he did not take the trouble to consult any available technical manuals for guidance. The altimeters were adjusted by another mechanic, who later told CAB investigators that he could not quite recall whether he had tightened...
...charter passengers for a one-day trip to the Tahoe casinos. The plane next landed at San Jose, taking aboard 63 more, filling it to its passenger capacity. At the San Jose stopover, Captain Norris received a weather report from the Tahoe Valley Airport. According to the CAB, Paradise's Tahoe station manager, presumably unwilling to turn away a lucrative flight, had changed an official weather report, causing Captain Norris to believe that thin, broken clouds existed in the Tahoe area, where, in fact, there were heavy clouds, snow showers and icing conditions...
...CAB surmised that Norris, finding himself in a blizzard as he started to land, abandoned his authorized approach and headed eastward at 9,000 ft. toward what he hoped would be clear sky. "Then, either because they believed they had sufficient altitude to clear the terrain or because they were unable to climb higher due to structural ice, the aircraft leveled off," said the CAB. "At that time they struck the first trees and were unable to avoid the final impact with the mountain...