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Where Trip 6 was was on the northwest leg of the Oakland range, not the northeast. Stead was headed for the sea, not Oakland, but for 35 minutes beyond the time he should have been over Oakland he had been convincing himself that his course was deflected by a side wind. At 4:16 he came...
Pilots have got on the wrong leg of a radio range before, but few have posed questions to their dispatchers like those that Pilot Stead now proceeded to ask. He wanted to know what was the engine's best manifold pressure to conserve...
Finally, at 3:03 a. m. Stead called Oakland, asked to be told where the north leg of the Fresno range intersected the northeast leg of the Oakland range...
Stead to Oakland: Definitely on northeast leg...
Because of the slovenly conduct of the trip; because of Stead's failure to find his position by a simple standard orientation problem; because the Oakland office failed to recognize the inconsistency of Stead's course with the course to be flown on the northeast leg, and for many other reasons, the Air Board found: 1) that the crash was due primarily to bad judgment by Pilot Stead and two Oakland dispatchers, Thomas P. Van Sceiver and Philip Stever Showalter; 2) that U. A. L.'s procedures for aiding aircraft under such an emergency were inadequate...