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...Captain Frank Carey McCord "committed an error in judgment" in not striking a course which would have kept the ship out of the storm centre...
...everything within the knowledge of Commander McCord at the time his decision was made might have pointed to his plan of action being justifiable. Certainly we know that many conflicting considerations had to be set one against the other, and what subsequent events show to have been an erroneous decision does not, in the opinion of the court, justify a condemnation without more information of the considerations upon which the plan of action was based. This information was lost with the ship...
Naval Court. Wheeling gloomily between two wide oil slicks off Barnegat Lightship-tombstone of the Akron-patrol boats picked up the bodies of Admiral Moffett, Captain McCord (the Akron's master), Commander Berry (last skipper of the Los Angeles). Lieut.-Commander MacLellan and Col. Alfred Masury, Army reserve officer and vice president of Mack Trucks Inc. Also they found the water-soaked logbook of Lieut. Hammond J. Dugan, which was immediately put on an airplane and flown to Lakehurst where sat a Naval Court of Inquiry into the disaster...
Commander Wiley, who had himself declared an "interested party'' (technical defendant ) in order to attend private hearings and examine witnesses, was firm in defense of Captain McCord's navigation. The weather forecast, he recalled, was for light wind and fog. When lightning was sighted below Philadelphia Captain McCord changed the course from south to northwest. Said Commander Wiley: "Although my own inclination was to go west, he had as much or more information than I and his judgment was just as good as mine. . . ." Later, however, when the ship was heading east at sea, Captain McCord told...
...sundown one day last week the U. S. S. Akron cast off from her stub mast at the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J., floated silently and moodily into a cheerless sky. One after another the eight engines were started. Then Commander Frank C. McCord bent a course eastward to sea; the 70 officers and crew settled down to one more of the Akron's routine training flights. This one was to be most casual-a two-day cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared...