Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes after a take-off from Montgomery Airport, the right motor of an Eastern Air liner bearing him and ten other passengers to Atlanta caught fire, shook off. Fire licked along the wing. Bracing himself for the inevitable crash Passenger Connolly took from his coat pocket the rosary his convent-school daughter, Mary Jac, 13, gave him just before he left New York...
...Cause of the accident, first serious airline crash to occur since Civil Aeoronautics Authority was established, was undertimined at week...
...been generally successful, since well-chosen issues become "sticky" not because they are unsound investments but only because of sudden market upsets. A good U. S. example was last fall's Pure Oil issue, a sound enough investment which failed to sell because of a market crash. If its underwriters had been an investment trust they could have added the unsold bonds to their portfolio, thus saving their own skins and not impairing the investment trust...
...theory that safety is a meaningless word unless all the hazards are properly understood. Air Facts has undertaken, to report every 30 days full details and "assumptions" concerning every private flying crash of serious consequence in the U.S. Last week Air Facts presented its score for this year's first nine months: 175 pilots and passengers killed in 109 accidents, 81.7% due directly to pilot mistake or faulty judgment. It found only 4.6% due to structural failure. More than half the accidents resulted from stalls (failure to maintain minimum flying speed), mostly during low altitude acrobatics (in which, comments...
...Sunday fliers get. Sometimes selling several ships a month, but more often finding territories soured on flying because of local accidents, he finally quit and started a flying school. Then this year, with 2,250 flying hours to his credit and a hatful of information on what makes ships crash, he started publishing Air Facts...