Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes one day, resisted the same dose for nearly 2½ hours another day. For some unknown reason, people are more vulnerable to oxygen poisoning under water than under the same pressure in a pressure chamber. And at a pressure of one atmosphere or less (as in high-altitude flight), human beings apparently can breathe pure oxygen indefinitely without harm...
With the routine efficiency of a precision instrument, Capital Airlines' Flight 410 took off from the Pittsburgh airport and headed east for Washington toward a soupy sea of cloud. It was 5:20 p.m. (E.S.T.). Aboard the DC-4 were 50 people -the crew of three, a baby and its mother, a honeymoon couple, Government and Red Cross officials, businessmen, a schoolgirl on a holiday...
...started down from 7,000 feet. At 6:13, when he had passed over Martinsburg, W. Va., and was almost clear of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Stark made his last report-3,000 feet and still descending (through rain and fog) for a look at the ground. After that, Flight 410 was heard no more...
...still raining next morning when Capital's maintenance director, James Franklin, circled his light plane over a 1,689-ft. Blue Ridge peak in search of Flight 410, then more than twelve hours overdue in Washington. Through a break in the clouds, Franklin saw a dreadful scatter of wings and burned fuselage, near the top of the peak. It was a scene with which the U.S. had become terribly familiar in the last three weeks. Flight 410 had hit the peak head-on 150 feet below the summit. There were no survivors...
...officials waited breathless for news of the landings. One by one telegrams filtered in, but there was no word of Jacquet or the Dutch couple. For two days they were feared lost at sea. At last the word came. Jacquet had won, landing near Ghent, Belgium, after a flight of 430 kilometers (less than half the record distance). As for the Boesmans, they had landed only 50 miles from Le Mans. They hadn't bothered to telegraph, they explained, because they couldn't speak French...