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...four-engined Cessna 620 executive transport, to give flying executives the big-plane comfort, safety and speed they expect at the economy prices they like to pay. With four 320-h.p. Continental engines, Cessna's 620 will carry nine passengers (plus pilot and copilot), cruise at 235 m.p.h. for 1,300 miles, and climb to an altitude of 30,000 ft. Estimated price: about $300,000 v. up to $400,000 for a converted World War II bomber...
Last week Swissair, admitting "grave human failings" in its first fatal crash in 15 years, fired the pilot and copilot, and announced the simple, shocking cause of the tragedy: the crew had neglected to have the plane refueled at Geneva...
...Miglia took its annual toll. A French Citroen spun out, smacked into a tree, bounced into a crowd and injured eight people. The driver, Andre Bouchon, was killed and his copilot injured severely. In another accident, a 15-year-old boy was killed when a French Renault went off the road. In all, five were killed, 25 injured, including twelve drivers...
...Copilot. In Los Angeles, after arresting Lyle Gann for drunken driving, police searched his car, in the trunk compartment found his wife Wilda, who explained: "I knew he would get drunk, so I stowed away so I could drive him home...
...Netherlands' Prince Bernhard returned from a tour of U.S. aircraft plants than his wife, Queen Juliana, ignoring criticism of the Prince's risky flying exploits in America (the engine of one of his planes conked out; another crashed a week after he flew it, killing his recent copilot), promoted Bernhard in all of her armed forces. Tripling in brass, the Prince is now a lieutenant admiral in the Royal Netherlands Navy, a general in the Royal Army, a general in the Royal Air Force...