Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieutenant-Commander Radford, a bear on training promising youngsters, got a tragic incentive when his brother Charles, an Army pilot, was killed because a student pilot froze to the controls. "He always felt after his brother's death that people shouldn't do things they aren't trained for." a close relative recalls. "I've heard him say the Germans and Russians weeded out the poorly trained by letting them get killed in combat. He feels the weeding out should be done in rigorous training." Adds one of Radford's officers, with a different perspective...
...announced to the airline that he planned to resign. On the afternoon of Dec. 3 he met his fiancée, an airline hostess, when her plane stopped over briefly in Ciudad Trujillo. He told her that he was headed, by official request, for the presidential palace. After that, Pilot Murphy vanished...
...days later the U.S. embassy asked Dominican police to investigate Murphy's disappearance. A month went by. Then the U.S. chargé d'affaires was told that Octavio de la Maza, another pilot on the airline, had hanged himself in a prison cell and left a note confessing that he had killed Murphy. Motive for the suicide: "remorse." Motive for the murder: not given...
...Lame One." Dictator Trujillo & Co. plainly intended to let the suicide report end the affair. But the U.S., as its note last week showed, found the story hard to believe. From inside the Dominican Republic came a report that Pilot De la Maza as well as Pilot Murphy had talked. By De la Maza's story, he and Murphy together had indeed spirited a cancer patient from Miami to Ciudad Trujillo. But the mysterious passenger was not Galindez. It was, instead, one Francisco ("The Lame One") Martinez Jara, urgently wanted then and now by U.S. authorities on suspicion...
...chill November night, a squadron of Canberra bombers taxied down the runway of the R.A.F. base outside Nicosia. Their orders were to bomb the Inshass airfield outside Cairo. Suddenly one bomber slumped nose-down on the runway. Four minutes later, 24-year-old Pilot Dennis Raymond Kenyon faced Squadron Leader Norman Hartley. "What's the matter, Dennis?" Hartley demanded. "Did you push the wrong button?" Dennis Kenyon threw his helmet on the ground and burst into incoherent tears. Later he told Hartley that he had deliberately retracted his wheels because "I did not altogether approve of what we were...