Word: sleeting
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...trimmings of tough flying went with the water-hail, sleet, air that was rougher than an Oklahoma line squall, terrain on which (said the pilots) a bird would break his legs in a forced landing. Yet the Chungking Ferry ran almost daily, riding instruments, dodging the Jap, who came up when there were holes in the weather...
Preliminary investigation uncovered no hint as to cause of the crash. The meager facts: The plane was in no apparent mechanical difficulty. Although the rain gave way to sleet and snow within a half-hour, neither Pilot Brown nor pilots who came in before & after had reported icing difficulty. Wind was northwesterly, velocity 20 m.p.h. The Salt Lake City radio range, whose faulty operation misled another mainliner into a Wasatch ridge in November 1940, was working normally. Had Don Brown been 300 feet higher, he would have cleared the knob...
...Chinese guide led them, by night, through narrow mountain passes to a farmhouse within earshot of a Jap garrison. Once, during their two-day hideout, they escaped a Jap searching party by a hair. A Chinese contraband runner loaded them at midnight into his small sampan, nosed upstream through sleet and snow for Free China. Japanese troops lined the right bank, Chinese the left; detection meant being riddled by both sides. At journey's end, too numb to move, they were carried through ice water and mud by the cheerful, barelegged boatman, given a royal welcome by Chinese villagers...
Around Leningrad it had come in great fogs, sleet and cold which fed on human bone-marrow. Near Moscow it came in snow and wind howling in the forests and on the plains. In the south it came in torrents of rain and in snow as wet and heavy as soaked cotton...
While rescuers worked in a driving sleet storm, investigators discovered that someone had drawn the spikes from the rail nearest the river, found a wrecking bar, bright with use, beside the tracks. The toll: 114 injured, five dead, including the engineer...