Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chunk of the fallen metal. Another youngster's abdomen was ripped open by a piece of flying metal. When the debris settled and the screams were stilled, three boys were dead or dying, 78 others hurt. Dead also: the airliner's four-man crew and Scorpion Pilot Owen. Scorpion Radarman Adams parachuted out, landed badly burned and unable to contribute an explanation of the collision. Busy at his radar, he had not seen the DC-7B until an instant before the planes...
...snow to within three-quarters of a mile's visibility, and the unrelenting snow had piled up on the big wings of Northeast's DC-6A. Flight 823's Captain Alva Marsh, 48, a 19-year transport veteran, stood by waiting for clearance. Finally Pilot Marsh checked the weather again, decided to go. It was 6:01 p.m. when the plane lumbered down the runway into the darkness, lifted heavily off the ground and, slowly gaining altitude, went into an inexplicable left turn over the East River. Only twelve seconds after the takeoff, it steepened its turn...
...away. First to the rescue were 50 fast-moving trusties from the island's city-run penitentiary, who rushed outside, fought their way to the planeside and helped survivors to safety. The count: of the six crew members and 95 passengers aboard, 20 killed, 50-odd hospitalized. Said Pilot Marsh dazedly: "Her power just drained out. She just wouldn...
...diplomatic note rocketed last week from the State Department to Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic: What had the Dominican authorities discovered in their prolonged investigation of the death of Airline Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy, 23, a U.S. citizen? Buried in the question was a startling story. The FBI and New York police believe that Pilot Murphy was murdered because he knew too much about the mysterious disappearance last March of Columbia University Lecturer Jesus de Galindez, writer of a Ph.D. thesis condemning Dictator Trujillo (TIME, April...
...Cancer Patient." Pilot Murphy was hired by the Dominican Airline six weeks before Galindez vanished, was made a copilot in spite of defective eyesight, which had barred him from U.S. military or commercial flying. Cocky and buoyant, he settled in Ciudad Trujillo, flew in and around the Dominican Republic for ten months. And one of the flights, he boasted in indiscreet moments last summer and fall, had been a hush-hush special job. His plane, he said, had taken Scholar Galindez, disguised as a "cancer patient," from the U.S. to the Dominican Republic...