Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beginning before and ending after the trial of Colonel Mitchell, the Court of Inquiry into the causes of the Shenandoah disaster closed last week. Its report must yet be made and approved by the Secretary of the Navy. The three months of the inquiry were not all spent in hearings...
He said his knowledge of the Shenandoah disaster was "based on hearsay, general knowledge of the weather and my experiences." He had never been aboard the Shenandoah, had however seen her in the distance, had studied dirigibles here and abroad. He said that what he meant when he said that...
Lieutenant Commander Rosendahl, senior officer of the survivors, declared that Commander Lansdowne had not protested against the fatal flight, that the disaster was an inevitable accident. He closed with the declaration: "Although we are survivors of one of the worst air accidents that has ever occurred, we nevertheless have not...
"I deny most emphatically the moral and ethical right of these gentlemen to jeopardize so ruthlessly the progress of New York and a great and necessary industry such as building and construction. The effects of the utterances of these gentlemen, by reason of their high and dignified positions in the...
Colonel William Mitchell was found guilty of conduct "to the prejudice of good order and military discipline" for his statements criticizing the War and Navy Departments made in September after the Shenandoah disaster and the failure of the Hawaiian flight.