Word: maddux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's worst air crash happened last fortnight-16 people killed in a T. A. T. Maddux trimotored Ford. As a result, the Department of Commerce made a new flying rule. No transport plane may fly lower than 500 ft. If trouble forces him that low, the pilot must seek a landing place at once...
...Colonel & Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh dined at San Diego last week with the J. L. Madduxes, their week-end hosts, a trimotored Ford of the T9. A. T.-Maddux Line (both men are company officials), which earlier in the evening they had heard flying North towards Los Angeles, crashed 35 miles away. Of "worst" crashes (TIME. July 1) this was worst-3 killed by explosion, 13 incinerated...