Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American Airlines confidently thought that Pilot John E. Boothe could push his scheduled DC-3 flight through from New York to Los Angeles. He got in & out of Baltimore all right, but Washington was shrouded in swirling snow. Refused permission to land, Boothe took his 13 passengers in search of an open airfield. By the time he got back to Baltimore, that was closed. Philadelphia soon shut down. So did New York. Boothe thought of trying Westover, Mass...
...fortunate were the crew and passengers of a charter plane flying from Miami to Newark the same night. Trying for an emergency landing in southern New Jersey, Pilot Robert Sheker could not see the field, crashed in a patch of woods. Three were killed, 19 hurt...
Over Shanghai's airfields on Christmas night the fog rolled, and China's budding air transport system had a situation it was not qualified to meet. One incoming airline pilot had no experience with G.C.A. (ground-controlled approach, the modern homing system which U.S. airlines still hope to get). Two others tried to work out their approach problems on ill-maintained radio sets, which failed them. Result: all three crashed, in the worst disaster in the history of commercial aviation. Injured, 18; dead...
...voiced through the conscience of man, and in mutual esteem, based on the responsibility of democratic life." Cardinal Spellman, the closest U.S. friend of Pope Pius XII, is as American as an apple dumpling - a onetime trolley-car conductor who now holds an airplane pilot's license. During the war, as Military Vicar to the U.S. Armed Forces (and chief of about 5,000 Catholic chaplains) and as a frequent Vatican envoy, he became one of the world's most traveled men (120,000 miles...
Frye and Hughes collided head-on over finances. T.W.A., its till drained by overseas expansion and a 25-day pilot strike, needed cash in a hurry, up to $100 million (TIME, Dec. 9). To get part of it, President Frye consequently proposed that T.W.A. issue another two million shares of stock...