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Whatever the trouble was, Pilot Warner knew it was bad too. It let him, his copilot, his 39 passengers and two stewardesses live just eight minutes longer. When the trouble struck, the DC-6 was not far from Sunbury. Minutes later, down to 900 feet, it was plunging through a valley, skimming a mountain, and apparently heading for a small airport at Shamokin. The runway was not long enough to take his 70,000-lb. ship, but the pilot might have risked a belly landing. Flyers there could not figure it out; the big plane's motors sounded...
...cockpit of a big modern airliner is a nightmare of instruments, switches, knobs, push buttons and warning lights. They crowd for attention in front of the pilot and copilot. They encrust the walls, drip from the roof like stalactites and overflow into the cubbyhole where the flight engineer sits. On a Boeing Strato-liner, there are 598 gadgets to watch. The three-man crew must know what each one is, where it is, and how to use it instantly. In an emergency, a few seconds of fumbling may mean a crash...
...life & times of Radio Songbird Jane Froman, 30, continued to read like a story with happy chapter endings. "I'll never forget him," she had said in 1943 of Copilot John Curtis Burn when he kept her from drowning in the Tagus River after the Lisbon Clipper crash that broke his back and left her crippled (TIME, March 8, 1943). Last week, 25 leg operations and a divorce (from ex-Radio Singer Don Ross) later, she announced that she would marry rugged, 33-year-old Flyer Burn. She would have to be on crutches for the ceremony, but Jane...
...with a pilot who has just had a crash. For airlines and pilots, that conclusion poses a dilemma. How can the pilot get back his confidence unless he flies? Horn suggests that a crashed pilot should go through a comeback course of supervised flying with a copilot. If his jitters are severe, it may help to talk out his trouble under a "hypnotic" drug...
...Then, still undetected, Sisto released the gust lock. The plane immediately went into an outside loop. Both Sisto and Beck, neither of whom had fastened his safety belt, were thrown from their seats. Two things saved the plane. Sisto struck buttons which feathered the prp-pellors of three engines. Copilot Melvin Logan, who was securely belted in, was able to roll the ship right side up, a bare 300 to 400 feet from the ground...