Word: copiloted
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Eleven came out alive. Mrs. Waterbury and her baby were hurt, but both had a chance for life. But twelve others, including Pierre Dreyfus and Herman Koegel, were dead. Captain Tansey was in critical condition, his copilot badly injured...
Disaster struck in a finger snap. The sleek, shiny Constellation tumbled drunkenly across a swampy, weed-covered islet on an arm of the Fergus River not two miles from the airfield. The left wing struck first, then the nose, which broke off and threw the pilot and copilot clear. The rest of the plane hurtled on, scattering its guts, plowing a deep rut in the mushy land. Watchers on Rineanna heard a thunderous crash as the Star hit, saw the flare of the gasoline.fire reach high into the night...
Pilot Hamm headed for the clearest space he could find, brushed through a grove of trees on the way. The DC-3 burst into pieces at the crash. Somehow, the stewardess and 18 passengers escaped with their lives. But Pilot Hamm and his copilot, Harmon E. Ring, had made their last flight...
...pilots and passengers of the DC-3 found out what had happened. Eastern's big, four-engined plane, flying the same route at the same altitude, but with a 60-m.p.h. edge in speed, had overtaken the DC-3. The Pilot did not see the smaller plane; the copilot did, just in time. He pulled back mightily on the yoke to drive the big plane over the smaller. It was a good try: a few more inches of overlap would have sent 85 people to certain death in aviation's worst disaster...
...Question. Both curly-haired, 31-year-old Captain William R. Westerfield and 23-year-old Copilot Robert B. Lehr were experienced flyers, and veterans of many a safe Atlantic crossing. Neither had radioed word of any engine trouble. Why had it struck a visible obstacle at an altitude of less than 1,600 feet...