Word: crackups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...were to fly 10,000 miles annually in regularly scheduled U. S. transport planes, he might suffer a crackup in the 39th year; might be killed in the 282nd. Were the same man to cover the same distance in random flights (instruction, sightseeing, joyhopping, et al.) he might anticipate an accident every 5.8 years, prepare for death in the 36th. These chances are based upon the civil air accident record for January-June 1930, published last week by the Department of Commerce...
...Navy's first accidents in fiscal 1931 occurred last week at Philadelphia?a freak crackup. Three flyers took off in a Martin bomber for parachute tests, with 200-lb. dummies secured in the bomb rack beneath the fuselage. About 100 ft. aloft, the parachute of one of the dummies worked loose, streamed aloft, was jerked full open by the wind. Down snapped the nose of the plane as if an anchor had suddenly been dropped. The short dive wrecked the ship, set it afire, seriously injured Lieut. Commander Oscar W. Erickson and his two assistants...
...were to fly 10,000 miles annually in regularly scheduled U. S. transport planes, he might suffer a crackup in the 20th year; might be killed in the 106th. Were the same man to cover the same distance in random flights (sightseeing, joyhopping with friends, et al.) he must anticipate an accident every 7.4 years, prepare for death in the 37th. This according to the civil air accident report for July-December 1929, published last week by the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce...