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...flight back to Washington. The size of the original entourage is often swelled by guests who made it up to the Kennedy compound on their own, and there is often a scramble for seats. But such, reason the commuters, is the price of flying on a non-sked airline...
...Civil Aeronautics Board found disturbing violations among many of the nonskeds: some mechanics were writing maintenance reports to show repairs and checkups that were never done; pilots were flying more than the legal eight hours at a stretch; flight crew training standards were minimal. In addition, non-sked business practices were sometimes downright dubious. President Airlines, which operated a DC-6B that crashed last year off Shannon, killing 83 passengers, got into the business by buying the air carrier certificate of a dormant nonsked...
...Chesher. A veteran of the R.C.A.F. and U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, Chesher had been flying for Arctic-Pacific for three years. Over the years he was charged with nearly a dozen violations of civil air regulations-falsifying engine time (an old trick of shaky, non-sked airlines to stretch the time between mandatory engine inspections), flying more hours during a given period than safety regulations permit, falsifying a manifest to show a copilot who was not aboard, etc. After a formal hearing, his license was suspended last July by FAA, and Arctic-Pacific was fined...
DISPUTED RULING by CAB allows financial Wheeler-Dealer Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. to control West-Coast-based, non-sked Transocean Air Lines while it already controls Northeast Airlines. In a 4-1 opinion, CAB declared Odium violated Sherman Antitrust Act, but said illegal action was "outweighed by public interest...
Last week's crash also precipitated action against the nation's other 51 non-sked operators. Washington drastically tightened up their operating regulations, e.g., tougher pilot qualifications, better maintenance. In view of the fact that the non-skeds carried 586,952 passengers in 1951 alone, the crackdown was plainly long overdue...