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...After reading your thorough report on Flight 901A [July 30], I feel compelled as a professional pilot to make these comments: The CAB concedes that the compass may have been 15° off, that the altimeter may have been off, and that someone on the ground falsified a weather report. Yet the board concludes that Cap tain Norris and his passengers are dead because of his error! Captain Norris' only errors seem to have been believing that a federally licensed mechanic would fix a compass and/or an altimeter, that a person on the ground would tell him the truth...
...refresher course on Communism for old as well as young, the editors undertook to determine the present state of the movement, its strengths and weaknesses, its fractured divisions and mischievous diversions, in every area of the world. Searching queries went out to 21 key points on the Communist compass. The question we wanted to answer was: Do Communist subversion, infiltration, and desire for control of legitimate nationalist movements remain realities? The essentially affirmative answer is set forth in detail in the ESSAY...
...Sticky" Altimeter. During the eight months before the crash, the Constellation's compass system had been reported malfunctioning no fewer than eleven times. The CAB found that at the time the plane hit the mountainside, the compass may have been as much as 15° off. Only the day before, a Paradise pilot who was flying the plane had complained that his altimeter had been "sticky" during descents, remaining stationary for a while, then suddenly registering a 150-ft. to 200-ft. drop. As for the copilot's altimeter, it registered 100 ft. below sea level when...
...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 a vital screw...
...employers for whom I retain a deep and grateful affection, correct his story that I started my own news-letter because I was "tired of researching news that city editors wouldn't print." On the contrary I started my Weekly as a last resort after the New York Daily Compass closed because for years under Ted O. Thackrey, the late John P. Lewis, Ralph Ingersoll, Freda Kirchwey, J. David Stern and Harry T. Saylor I enjoyed a quarter century of such freedom and old-fashioned crusading journalism that I was spoiled for anything else. Brackman's account may be excused...