Word: sayen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pilots' President Sayen...
...Your obituary on Clarence N. Sayen, former president of the Air Line Pilots Association [Aug. 27], properly recognizes his many contributions to air safety. But you say that he "called senseless strikes against the airlines in a bitter struggle for control of the smaller Flight Engineers Union." A review of the record will show that while the Air Line Pilots Association advocated that all aircraft flight-deck crew members be pilot-qualified, Mr. Sayen called no strikes to enforce this view. However, the Flight Engineers Union called several and was responsible for the resulting air-transportation shutdowns...
Died. Clarence Nicholas Sayen, 46, president from 1951 to 1962 of the Air Line Pilots Association, 16,000-member union representing more than 90% of the country's scheduled airline pilots, a onetime Braniff copilot who won many badly needed air-safety reforms, but called senseless strikes against the airlines in a bitter struggle for control of the smaller Flight Engineers union and resigned under fire; of injuries suffered when the United Airlines Boeing 727 he had taken from New York crashed into Lake Michigan minutes before landing at Chicago, killing all 30 passengers and crew...
...After eleven years of one-man rule by irascible Clarence (Clancy) Sayen, the 14,000-member Air Line Pilots Association chose a new president: mild-mannered Charles Homer Ruby, 52. Backed by retiring President Sayen as a way of freezing out his arch-opponent, ALPA First Vice President John Carroll, Ruby is a onetime mechanic who has logged 20,000 flying hours in everything from chugging J-1s to jet-powered DC-8s, ranks No. 2 on National Airlines' seniority list. He inherits a Sayen-created impasse. The convention that elected Ruby also voted to continue the two-year...
...Federal Aviation Agency Administrator Najeeb Halaby is learning something about the pressure groups that dogged his predecessor, Elwood ("Pete") Quesada. Air Line Pilots Association Boss Clarence Sayen told Halaby that their relationships could easily be improved by transferring FAA Counsel Daggett Howard to some other job. Unmentioned by Sayen: Howard has won case after court case against the A.L.P.A...