Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the airship Wing foot Express burst into flames while flying over Chicago's business district. The two pilots parachuted away. The Wingfoot Express crashed through the skylight of Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, killing 13 bank employes. Much more frequent are accidents in which the pilot of a plane disabled over the city has crashed with his ship...
...Absolutely liable for injury to persons or property on the land or water beneath" is the plane owner, by statutes in most of the 48 States. The pilot is liable only for the result of his own negligence. But since a crashed plane destroys most clues to negligence, pilots are rarely charged. If the Department of Commerce's post-crash investigation shows that the pilot abandoned his plane unnecessarily, or too hastily, his license may be revoked. But in general aviation etiquet leaves the problem of whether to jump or not to jump entirely to the pilot...
Another kind of pilot was at the controls of a blazing plane over France one night last week, on the regular Paris-Marseilles mail run. The wireless operator went over the side but the pilot pumped his extinguisher until he had put out the fire. Then he flew on to Lyons; the wireless operator caught up by train...
...lines is a contract clause reading: "In the event of the injury or death of the holder due to any cause for which this company is legally liable, the company's liability is limited to" $5,000 or $10,000. A 1931 award set the precedent that all planes operating on regular advertised schedules are "common carriers" like railroads, just as liable as railroads for the death or injury of passengers. Hence in most States the clause is meaningless except in a few Western States which limit liability in case of death to $10,000 or less per person...
...sued Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, Inc. for $200.000. A Newark District Court jury awarded her $56,000; the judge cut it to $40.000. Curtiss-Wright appealed on the grounds that: i) Mr. Glose had automatically limited damages to $10,000 by accepting the printed form ticket; 2) as the plane's sole passenger he had "chartered" it; and 3) there had been no negligence on the part of Pilot Percy C. Henry Jr. who was also killed when he tried to land his plane to avoid heavy fog immediately ahead...