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...Radar. On the morning of the Idlewild crash, former Pilot George A. Van Epps, the bureau's northeastern chief, with headquarters at Idlewild, got a phone call from the tower: "This is an alert...
Flares & Heaters. One of the most ingenious campaigns was the 1947 study of a DC-6 crash near Bryce Canyon, Utah. Several minutes before the end, the pilot reported a fire burning out of control in the baggage compartment, and that his plane was coming apart in the air. Gathering the wreckage, which was strewn over 28 miles of rugged country, the CAB's investigators noticed traces of barium ash on some of the fragments. Since the only barium that could have burned was in flares carried in the baggage compartment, the bureau at once ordered...
...stall caused by prematurely retracted flaps would be due to pilot error, and in the opinion of CAB men, the crew that died at Idlewild was unusually competent; Captain James Heist had 18,000 hours, of which 1,600 were in 707s. So other theorists suspect that the fatal plunge of the 707 may have been caused by misbehavior of its hydraulic control system. There have been many instances, both proved and suspected, when the hydraulic system has made the aircraft extremely difficult for the pilot to control. This seems to have happened when a Sabena (Belgian) Airlines 707 crashed...
...length, Griggs stuffed himself with sleeping pills and his ears with plugs, but it was no use. He finally leased a small cottage to which he and his wife retreated when they anticipated a busy night on the runway. A representative of the Airline Pilots Association further aggravated his fears with the admission that "in event of motor failure on takeoff, pilots would have no recourse but to plow into my house." In 1953 Griggs filed suit against the airport. In 1956 he sold his house and five acres to the St. Philip's Episcopal Church (whose congregation...
Plane Fear. Some airports have gone so far as to suspend jet traffic completely during certain hours; in Montreal and London, no jet flights move between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. But appeasing the neighborhood complainers can add to the pilot's problems. At Idlewild, for example, planes using Runway 31-Left are ordered to climb sharply and turn sharp left seconds after take-off to avoid passing over populous Jamaica-which is exactly the procedure followed by the American Airlines jet that crashed into Jamaica Bay (see SCIENCE...