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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military version of the four-engined DC-6) and a twin-engined Real Airlines (Brazilian) DC3-collided as both were circling to land. The Brazilian plane knifed through the Navy transport, cutting it in two and spilling bodies and debris out of the clouds into the water. Aboard the U.S. plane, on their way to Rio to play for Presidents Eisenhower and Kubitschek, were 23 members of the famed Navy Band. All were killed. Out of a total of 64 aboard the two planes, there were just three survivors-all U.S. Navymen who were riding in the shorn tail section...
...Ireland, a big Alitalia airliner took off from Shannon Airport, outbound for New York, reached an altitude of 300 feet, then unaccountably veered off to the left and crashed. The fuselage of the big Italian DC-7 ripped through a country churchyard and a flock of sheep, leaving a mile-long trail of bodies, tombstones and burning debris. Said the Rev. Thomas Comerford, pastor of the church: "People were screaming, sheep were crying, and dogs were barking. It was like a scene from hell." Of 52 aboard, 30 were killed, and many of the 22 survivors were critically burned...
...rights in the U.S. and Latin America, plus parts of Asia and Africa. At first, all planes will be built in France, but when Douglas orders get big enough (more than 50), Douglas will make the Caravelle in the U.S. This means that Douglas will probably not build its DC-9 medium-range jet, hopes that in the Caravelle it has the jet-age equivalent of the DC...
...producing a smaller jet for routes of less than 1,000 miles. Starting in 1951, Sud got to work on a transport that could operate economically between cities only null apart. Price: between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000-about half the cost of a DC-8 or Boeing 707. The first flights of the new plane with engines placed near the tail were so successful that eight airlines (among them: Air France, SAS, Alitalia, Sabena, Varig) have ordered 60 planes. The experts think that is just a starter, forecast a potential North American market of 500 Caravelles...
...plane until MATS was no longer directly competitive with the private airlines. It was almost impossible for MATS to get any new equipment of any kind. Last year the House shot down a $66 million item that MATS tried to tack on its budget for the purchase of ten DC-8 jets...