Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Imperial regularly had so many maintenance problems that they took up half the time of a Federal Aviation Authority inspector in Miami, who reported the company this year had such "discrepancies" as hydraulic leakage, faulty fuel indicators, improper rigging of mixture control, a bald nose-gear tire, and fuel seepage under the wing...
...doomed Constellation's fuel was "contaminated" by rust sediment...
...When the two engines went out, Pilot Conway asked the flight engineer to open an emergency valve that would have permitted an extra flow of fuel to both dead engines. But Copilot James Greenlee, who was killed in the crash, canceled the request and the valve stayed shut. Testified Conway: "I would much rather have seen that valve open...
...perhaps the strangest evidence of all was that Chief Flight Engineer John Mayfield had blithely repaired a fuel pump motor on the Constellation the day before the crash by cutting down a brush taken from a 1954 Mercury automobile generator. As it turned out, the engine with the ersatz part kept going during the fatal flight. But engineers from established airlines blinked in dismay at Imperial's incredibly slipshod methods of maintenance. Said one: "They must have been a little desperate...
Last week, on the heels of a desperate declaration by Northeast that it might have to suspend service within days for lack of fuel money, Hughes proposed that Atlas Corp. sell him its controlling interest in the airline. The CAB has never made any secret of its distaste for Hughes, and to invite him back into the airline business would be humiliating indeed. But since no one else seemed prepared to bail Northeast out, to rebuff Hughes would very likely mean that Northeast would become the second major U.S. airline (the first: Capital) to disappear within a year...