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...there are times when the CAB's sleuths clear the records of suspect pilots...
Still unsure, the CAB asked Yale Medical School's alcoholism experts to decide whether alcohol can get into a man's brain from the water in which he is drowned...
...crash near Bryce Canyon, Utah. Several minutes before the end, the pilot reported a fire burning out of control in the baggage compartment, and that his plane was coming apart in the air. Gathering the wreckage, which was strewn over 28 miles of rugged country, the CAB's investigators noticed traces of barium ash on some of the fragments. Since the only barium that could have burned was in flares carried in the baggage compartment, the bureau at once ordered all DC-6s to remove their flares. Eighteen days later, another DC-6 had a baggage-compartment fire, near...
High-Speed Stall? In the current Idlewild investigation, the CAB hopes for crash clues from the automatic flight recorder, which records time, compass heading, air speed, altitude and "g's" (acceleration) and is mandatory equipment on all jets. When found, it was flown to Washington for study at the Bureau of Standards, its aluminum tape hopefully undamaged. Interest was focused on the speed that it will show, because one theory points to what airmen call a "highspeed stall" as the cause of the accident...
...stall caused by prematurely retracted flaps would be due to pilot error, and in the opinion of CAB men, the crew that died at Idlewild was unusually competent; Captain James Heist had 18,000 hours, of which 1,600 were in 707s. So other theorists suspect that the fatal plunge of the 707 may have been caused by misbehavior of its hydraulic control system. There have been many instances, both proved and suspected, when the hydraulic system has made the aircraft extremely difficult for the pilot to control. This seems to have happened when a Sabena (Belgian) Airlines 707 crashed...