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Pan American's Flight 843 waited at the end of the main runway at San Francisco's International Airport for takeoff to Honolulu. Aboard the Boeing 707 jet was a full complement of 143 passengers, a crew of ten, two tons of cargo and 13,384 gal. of...
Hearing Miller's report that "the outer-wing tank has blown," Kimes called the San Francisco tower. "Clipper 843. Mayday! Mayday! We got problems with power here." No answer. Kimes called again, more insistently. The tower heard this time, told him that other planes in the area were holding...
In the cockpit, Captain Kimes felt "a severe shudder," accompanied by the muffled roar of an explosion. His eyes swept the instrument panel in front of him, stopped at the altimeter, which showed 700 ft. and climbing. At the same moment, Flight Engineer Fitch Robertson called out: "We have lost...
"Mayday! Mayday!" "I've got it," Kimes called as he took over the contols. Miller, reacting automatically as a result of hundreds of simulated emergency sessions, punched a button under the flashing red light, releasing fire-extinguishing chemicals into No. 4 engine. Meanwhile, Kimes was desperately trying to keep...
Died. Brigadier General Ira L. Kimes (ret.), 49, Marine Air Group commander at Midway Island (June 1942), who got the D.S.C. for standing off a Japanese task force until U.S. carrier planes came to the rescue; of coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda, Md.