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Then came a crucial series of radio communications on two separate channels. The PSA cockpit crew could monitor both the Miramar frequency and that of the Lindbergh tower. The Cessna pilots were tuned only to Miramar. Miramar clearly warned the airliner about the Cessna. The sequence...
...crews were facing a glaring sun. Worse, each craft appeared to have entered a blind spot in the other's field of vision. The 727 crew, with the plane's nose up, had limited vision down toward the Cessna; in the Cessna, the high wing above the cockpit obstructed the view upward and to the rear...
...Administrator Langhorne Bond argued at the same hearing that no warning device is yet practical in a heavy traffic area. "There would be whistles and buzzers going off constantly in the cockpit," he told the committee, "and this would not serve the interests of air safety." He said that no system is yet reliable enough for general use. Florida Democrat Dante Fascell was unconvinced. He said he would introduce legislation making such devices mandatory on all large aircraft...
...issued new safety regulations last week for the various unscheduled small-plane commuter lines, chartered aircraft and "air taxis" that are adding to major-airport congestion. Their pilots will henceforth have to maintain full airline-transport-pilot certificates, and their planes must carry a ground-proximity warning system, cockpit voice recorder and either thunderstorm detection equipment or weather radar...
...Sandown raceway in Melbourne was packed with 61,500 people, there to see the car that had been flown in from Stuttgart and the driver from Argentina. "It's like meeting an old friend," said Juan Fangio, 67, five-time world racing champion, as he clambered into the cockpit of the Mercedes-Benz "Silver Arrow" that he had driven to victory in world title races in 1954 and 1955. "But," he added, "please do not think I am going to do the same things I did many years ago. This car has been in a museum and soon...