Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest chunk is an 8-ft. by 10-ft. section of the tail. Yet the skilled crash detectives of the U.S. Government's Civil Aeronautics Board can identify and check every tiny fragment. Out of the grim jigsaw puzzle, they will slowly and carefully extract the "probable cause" of the accident. Then other 707s, forewarned and perhaps modified, may be saved from making plunging turns into disaster...
...Radar. On the morning of the Idlewild crash, former Pilot George A. Van Epps, the bureau's northeastern chief, with headquarters at Idlewild, got a phone call from the tower: "This is an alert...
whether something came off in the air or as a result of the impact. Every one of the power-driven devices that work the ailerons, flaps and other controls is studied for before-or after-crash damage. The engines are always suspect, and even though they may be thoroughly smashed -along with the instruments-the CAB men can often tell what power they were putting out when the plane...
...wealthiest executives, guided Cities Service out of a pre-Depression debt of $500 million to its present billion-dollar assets by a policy of worldwide expansion, won national gratitude for pushing through the World War II construction of the Big and Little Inch pipelines; in the Idlewild jet crash...
...writes about things and places, but she sees them with a woman's eye as keen as any since Virginia Woolf's. Above all. she has a gift of imagery-pelicans, for in stance, landing on the sea. "crash like pickaxes." A Cold Spring, dedicated to a friend whose farm she visited, shows her at her best...