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...plane caught one wing tip on the crest of a slope, and plunged into a hillside in suburban Whittier Heights. The crew of three and all 26 passengers aboard were killed. The plane was a war-surplus C46 Curtiss Commando, operated by a nonscheduled carrier-the fourth non-sked C46 to crash in four months...
...lengths behind, in what seemed like a second race, B.U. sked out M.I.T., the crew which last year was the only boat to beat the Crimson and was the Eastern sprint champion. Teach's coach, Jim McMillin, seemed keenly disappointed by the loss...
...tough new order forbids any one non-sked to make more than three round trips a month over the major U.S. air routes and makes it illegal for a non-sked to fly more than eight times a month between the same two points. Thus, it would virtually put an end to the non-skeds' low-fare aircoach business. Said Aircoach Transport Association President Amos E. Heacock: the order is the result of "a calculated campaign by the scheduled airlines to gouge millions of extra . . . dollars from the public...
...skeds' best argument against CAB is the fact that they fathered low passenger rates, thus converted thousands to air travel and helped all airlines. (Bureau of the Census surveys showed that 75% of non-sked passengers would have traveled by bus, train or not at all if it hadn't been for aircoach.) In places like Alaska, non-skeds have helped bring a revolution in transportation. Says Alaska s Governor Ernest Gruening: "The Civil Aeronautics Board has been blind to our needs and deaf to our appeals...
...itself had already cracked down on another non-sked, California's Standard Airlines, for violating the rules for "irregulars" by flying too regularly. It had revoked Standard's operating certificate, effective this week (TIME, July 4) Last week, while Standard awaited the outcome of its appeal on CAB's ruling, one of its planes, a C-46, crashed into a California mountainside. The dead...