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...crashproof flight recorder that the DC-8-like all jets-carried under federal regulations. Translated, the taped squiggles showed that the jet, bound for New York's Idlewild terminal from Chicago, made a steep descent from 14,000 to 5,000 ft. as it approached the Preston holding area in New Jersey (see map), sped through Preston on instruments at speeds as high as 360 knots (v. standard jet holding speed of 220 knots). At that speed, it closed the distance between Preston and the instrument traffic approach for La Guardia Airport...
...Dump It." Tape recordings of conversation between air-traffic controllers and the planes supported the flight recorder's squiggles. After clearing the jet for descent from 14,000 ft. at Allentown, Pa. to 5,000 ft. at the Preston marker, Air Route Traffic Control Center at Idlewild asked: "Look like you'll be able to make Preston at five?" Replied the jet: "Will head it right on down; we'll dump it." Minutes later, the jet was calling Idlewild Approach Control, reporting '"proaching Preston at 5,000." Approach responded with weather and landing instructions...
...Traffic Control center at Idlewild. In the heavy weather, both had been ordered to follow strict holding patterns while awaiting clearance to land: the TWA Connie at 6,000 ft. over Linden, N.J., south of Newark Airport; the DC-8 at 5,000 ft. in a stacking area over Preston check point, more than five miles south of Linden. As traffic moved, ARTC controllers directed the TWA plane to drop to 5,000 ft. and then, proceeding under control of La Guardia, to swing northeastward into the prescribed Instrument Landing System beam (ILS) to La Guardia's Runway...
...U.A.L. DC-8, directed to circle at Preston, would, when cleared, have normally flown eastward toward Idlewild's ILS glide path. U.A.L. Pilot R. H. Sawyer acknowledged and confirmed his instructions from Air Traffic Control to circle Preston, and his acknowledgment was the last contact Idlewild ever got. Since the planes collided in a spot on the Connie's path-a good ten miles or so north of the jet's allotted position-it seemed likely that the jet had somehow flown beyond its orbiting area into the La Guardia approach. Why Pilot Sawyer did so-whether...
...BINNEY Preston, England...