Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flight 608 was a giant four-motored DC-6 which had taken off from Los Angeles at 9:23 a.m., two hours before, bound for New York with 47 passengers and a crew of five. As soon as the ship's veteran pilot, 42-year-old Captain E. L. McMillen, had discovered the fire, he had reversed his course, headed back over southwestern Utah's jagged Bryce Canyon country, to an emergency strip 20 miles away...
Captain McMillen didn't make it. The big plane, last seen in flight by a deer hunter who reported that its undersides were aflame and that it was dropping unidentifiable objects, managed to skim over the precipitous wall of a canyon. But then, just 1,500 yards short of the airstrip, it crashed, churned 300 feet up a sage-covered slope, exploded and disintegrated. Nobody survived; nobody could have. Among those who died: Jack Guenther, managing editor of Look; Pro Footballer Jeff Burkett, Chicago Cardinals' halfback; Gerard B. Lambert Jr., scion of a famed drug dynasty (see MILESTONES...
...craft which went into commercial service last spring. The toll was U.S. aviation's second highest (the highest: 53, killed last May in a DC-4 crash near Port Deposit, Md.). What caused the baggage fire was a question which might never be answered. All the baggage of Flight 608 was loaded into belly cargo pits through which passed no gasoline lines or electric wires. The pits carried automatic smoke indicators and extinguishing apparatus. It seemed unlikely that matches, cigarette lighters or other ordinary objects in the passengers' luggage could have set the ship afire...
...definitely a man to watch in the impending tussle. A slow starter in 1946, Grimsley caught fire against the Crimson last year and danced through the Crimson defenses for both tallies. The halfback flash has had another disappointing start on his current campaign, but he turned in a top-flight exhibition against Lehigh on Saturday and may shine for the Scarlet against their New England foes once more...
Four days after the Bermuda Sky Queen's forced landing, a Bristol land plane, operated by the French Compagnie des Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux, crashed in the Mediterranean on a flight from Marseille to Oran, Algeria. Forty-one died; two were rescued...