Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after a 16-month investigation of the crash, the Civil Aeronautics Board has released a report finding that if the plane had been flying only 300 ft. higher or 300 yds. to the right, the disaster might have been averted. According to the CAB, the crash was caused by pilot error, sloppy ground maintenance, faulty equipment-and the falsification of a weather report by a Paradise official...
...eight months before the crash, the Constellation's compass system had been reported malfunctioning no fewer than eleven times. The CAB found that at the time the plane hit the mountainside, the compass may have been as much as 15° off. Only the day before, a Paradise pilot who was flying the plane had complained that his altimeter had been "sticky" during descents, remaining stationary for a while, then suddenly registering a 150-ft. to 200-ft. drop. As for the copilot's altimeter, it registered 100 ft. below sea level when the plane...
...crosswind is causing the plane to drift sideways, the pilot may have to swing the rear antenna to right or left before it picks up the proper pattern of ground radiation. In that case, the amount of antenna swing is also fed into the computer, which then cranks the drift angle into its computations. Working with direction, ground speed, drift angle and flight time from a known point of departure, the pilot's computer becomes an accurate navigator...
Then, last fall, the man who had flown 159 missions in World War II and Korea and filled in as a test pilot in between discovered the truth of the statistic that most accidents happen in the home. While he was hanging up a mirror in his bathroom, a throwrug slid out from under Glenn and threw his head against the bathtub. The hairline crack in his skull incapacitated his sense of balance for about nine months and probably cost him the title of United States Senator From Ohio...
...Major General Chester V. (Ted) Clifton, military aide to President Johnson as he was to President Kennedy, is retiring from the Army even though he is only 51. Succeeding him will be Air Force Major James U. Cross, 40, pilot of the President's JetStar since February...