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...bank, looked more attractive than she had in decades. Moreover, her war-built airports have helped make Newfoundland the aerial crossroads of the North Atlantic, a new, potent bargaining point. Of the five major airports, Canada holds two (Torbay and Goose Bay), Newfoundland one (Gander) and the U.S. two (Harmon Field and Argentia) -most of them still involved in controversy over civil air rights. This has given some Newfoundlanders the idea that they might do better bargaining, not with Ottawa, but with...
YOUR ARTICLE "DEATH IN THE FOG" SEPT. 30 ISSUE OMITS RECOGNITION U.S. COAST GUARD PARTICIPATION GANDER RESCUE. NATION'S PRESS, NEWS REELS AND RADIO BROADCASTS ALL GIVE PROPER CREDIT TO THIS SERVICE FOR FLYING OUT SURVIVORS IN COAST GUARD HELICOPTERS AND COAST GUARD PBYS...
...rescue parties across the fir-patched barrens. There seemed to be no logical explanation for the crash, The plane's flight from New York to Newfoundland had been without incident. There had been a delay at Harmon, but for purely routine reasons. Weather had shut it out of Gander Airport, where a relief crew waited, and CAB rules had kept the plane grounded for twelve hours while its pilots slept. An engine check, made during the delay, revealed that all its power plants were functioning perfectly...
...week's end the Newfoundland wilderness had claimed its third wrecked airplane in three weeks. Two men were injured, one missing after a U.S. Army single-engined C68 Norseman crashed on a flight between St. John's and Gander. The wreck brought the total of U.S. commercial crashes since Jan. 1 to ten. Total dead...
Back & forth, between plateau and lake, the helicopters hopped. Back & forth from lake to Gander the PBYs flew. The shuttle functioned without a flaw-till the very end. Then the PBY bringing out Jeanne Perier, 16, and her brother Etienne, 14 (their mother and sister were killed), blew a tire as it settled on the runway. "What was that?" cried Jeanne. "Just a tire blowing," answered a flyer...