Word: copiloting
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...examined, found perfect. After getting a weather report which noted a 2,000-ft. ceiling at St. Louis, low-lying fog along the way and unlimited visibility at Chicago, the City of Memphis had soared off into the dark at 9:56 p. m. with a fresh pilot, a copilot, six passengers. One of the latter was Captain Vernon C. Omlie, oldtime flyer and husband of equally famed Aviator Phoebe Omlie. Six minutes after the takeoff, the airport called the plane by radio, got no answer By 10:20, when there was still no word anxious officials began querying airport...
...girl gasped that she must use the telephone. She called a number, clutched the instrument for support, steadied her voice when she got an answer. 'Mr. Williams, this is Nellie Granger, hostess on Flight I. The ship crashed and started to burn. . . . Both Otto Ferguson and Lewis [the copilot] were killed. . . . Nine passengers were killed...
...control cabin of Condor NC 12354 at Newark Airport one afternoon last week climbed Pilot Clyde Hoi-brook of American Air Lines, onetime War ace, veteran of 10,000 flying hours. Into the passenger cabin climbed Stewardess Margaret Huckeby, onetime nurse. Four passengers followed them in and, last, Copilot John Barron Jr. "Clear!" cried the dispatcher, and the green spotlight across the field showed clear. Pilot Holbrook took off with a roar and headed north for Chicago by way of Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland...
...high & low in the rough Catskill Mountain country. At noon on the second day Pilots William H. Hallock and Lee Lewis flew low over a wooded peak at Mongaup Park, known locally as "Last Chance Hill," spotted the burned wreckage of NC 12354, the incinerated remains of Pilot Holbrook. Copilot Barron, Stewardess Huckeby & all four passengers. Airline officials deduced that Pilot Holbrook had turned westward to skirt a storm area. Squeezed down by the thick blanket of clouds above, the plane had torn an Soft. swath through the treetops, crashed to earth in a blaze of flame. One body, flung...
...eight trunk routes. These routes constituted only about 40% of the mileage flown by the private operators before their contracts were canceled. .The announcement had hardly-been issued before one more Air Corps death was added to the list. Lieut. R. G. Richardson of the Reserve Corps, onetime copilot on United Air Lines, was working in a filling station when he was summoned for mail duty. Making a test flight in the type of observation plane that bore two Army pilots to death in flames near Cheyenne last fortnight (TIME, March 19), Lieut. Richardson somehow got his ship into...