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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Control said: "All right, at three miles north of Dutch is Clipper [Pan American Flight] 212 descending to 4,000." A minute later, the Eastern aircraft, piloted by Captain Frederick R. Carson, 41, rose over the ocean. "How does he shape up with that boy coming in . . . the guy at his 1 o'clock position?" asked New York Control. "We're above him," said the radar operator at the airport. Actually Flight 663 was well below Pan American's 212 at the time-but traffic controllers corrected their error almost instantly. Shortly after...
...Yeoh!" At almost the same time, aboard the Pan American jet, the pilot and copilot were taking landing instructions from the tower at Kennedy. Suddenly one of them shouted into the radio, "Yeoh!" Twenty-three seconds later, Pan American 212 radioed to the airport controllers: "We had a close miss here . . . Did you have another target in this area at this same spot where we were just a minute ago?" The tower replied, "Affirmative, however not on my scope at the present time." From the Pan American ship came the first word of disaster: "It looked like...
...week's end Federal Aviation Agency investigators said that when the Eastern and Pan Am planes passed, they were 1,200-1,700 ft. apart vertically, three to four miles laterally, a safe distance on anybody's scope. Yet distances can be deceptive in the air, and the investigators recognized the possibility that Carson might have swung his ship into a fatal fall because he believed a mid-air crash was imminent. The piston-driven plane was not equipped with the all but indestructible flight recorder, which indicates every yaw, pitch and twitch of the controls...
...Vertol Division and United Aircraft's Sikorsky Division are now producing twin-engine crafts with capacities of about 40 passengers. Once it gets federal clearance, New York Airways plans to begin in April Vertol-107 instrument flights from the top of Manhattan's 59-story Pan American Building. Since the new helicopters can operate at night and under the same visibility conditions required for jets, the line hopes to eliminate at least the complaint of unreliability in schedules...
...York-to-Boston airmail run, as Maine's World War II Governor organized one of the country's first Civil Defense Corps, later returned to aviation as president of American Overseas Airways, helped build it into a major transatlantic carrier before it merged with Trippe's Pan American in 1950; of a heart attack; in Bath...