Word: elwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...safety, and the first responsibility for that safety rests in the hands of an organization that, for power and procedure, has no parallel in the U.S. It is the Federal Aviation Agency, and the man who rules it is a temperamental, mail-fisted, blunt-talking ex-fighter pilot named Elwood Ricardo Gonzalo Quesada...
...effort to promote air safety, FAAdministrator Elwood Quesada has done all but one of the following: a) Cracked down on infractions of rules by pilots...
While experts were still collecting the North Carolina wreckage, the head of the National Airlines branch of the pilots' union, Captain Robert J. Rohan, fired off a telegram to FAAdministrator Elwood Quesada suggesting a charge that made more responsible pilots' union members gasp. The FAA's recently instituted pilot check procedure, Rohan implied, may have caused both the crash of National's DC-6B and the crash of a National-operated DC-7B (with 42 dead) last November over the Gulf of Mexico. FAA's pilot-proficiency tests require pilots to go through "approaches...