Word: lav
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MALCOLM LAV"ELLE...
...pilot's dream, clear and bright with waxing moon glowing yellow in the sky. In the tower at New York's Idlewild Airport, controlmen expertly ticked off the routine comings and goings of scores of aircraft. Shortly after 12:30 a.m., the routine broke: an LAV (for Linea Aeropostal Venezolana) Super Constellation, droning southward from Idlewild across the black Atlantic toward Caracas, was in trouble. Her position: 38° 10 min. north, 72° 08 min. west (160 miles southeast of the New Jersey coast). "Returning direct to New York," said the crisp message. "Unable to maintain...
...Idlewild, the LAV staff began preparing late snacks for the 64 passengers and the ten-man crew. Doubtless many of the travelers would grouse about the delay, but the prospects for cheerful shoulder-shrugging were better than average, because at least 25 were lively youngsters, the majority of them students at U.S. convents and prep schools, returning to Venezuela for their summer holidays. Twenty on board were Americans...