Word: captains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain John G. Schmitt Jr., 34, of Chalmers, Ind. was flying over the island of Okinawa one morning last week, the fire warning light flashed in his F-100 Super Sabre, was followed by a violent explosion. A ten-year veteran of jet flying assigned to Okinawa's Kadena Air Force Base, Schmitt managed to head his crippled plane away from the densely populated city of Ishikawa (pop. 30,000) before he bailed out. But the pilotless ship suddenly veered, headed straight for the modem, U.S.-built Miyamori School, where 1,306 Okinawan children were having their morning milk...
...Captain Schmitt, officially absolved of blame in the crash, offered his apologies to the townspeople, through the press, and 35 airmen attended Buddhist funeral services for the children. Though Kame-jiro Senaga, leader of the pro-Communist Minren Party, tried to make political capital out of the accident, no one else did, and most Okinawans seemed genuinely impressed by U.S. rescue efforts following the crash. And any critics would have to ignore a startling safety record: the crash caused the first Okinawan fatalities in 14 years of U.S. occupation...
...light of the success at Henley, it is possible that the Crimson heavyweights will compete in the 1960 Olympic games. Captain-elect Perry Boyden stated, "The Olympics are our goal, and I think we'll make...
Trujillo's government announced that Trujillo himself went to the Constanza area to oversee the counterattack, that Rebel Commander (and onetime Castro Captain) Enrique Jiménes Moya was killed. The rebels fought back with reports that Trujillo was nervously hiding out at San Isidro Air Base, that Jiménes Moya was still alive and fighting, that Pilot Ventura Simó had been executed by a San Isidro firing squad when his propaganda value had been used...
After he discovered that the captain was out of the cockpit talking to passengers in the cabin when a Pan American Boeing 707 dived 29,000 ft. on a transatlantic flight (TIME, Feb. 16), Old Pilot Quesada fined both Pan Am and the captain. He followed that up by publicly warning the Air Line Pilots Association that pilots are to stay in their cockpits with their belts fastened instead of gladhanding with the public. When the ALPA attacked this enforcement as a "childish Gestapo program," Quesada fired back a blunt answer: Obey the rules or take the matter to court...