Word: steading
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...Stead was now over the sea and, with 20 gallons of gas left-enough to keep him aloft only another twenty minutes-he was told his position was off the Point Reyes light. By now the dispatcher was running the plane. He told Stead there was a rough beach and a bench (level ground above a beach) behind the light...
Oakland to Stead: If you land on water, wheels up. If you land on bench, wheels down...
...Stead to Oakland: We pulled a flare and the shore is too rough...
...tragedy was not ended. Instead of keeping the passengers in the stranded plane, Pilot Stead got them up on the slippery top of the fuselage. One by one they were washed off and drowned-all save Stead and an ex-convict. When he reached the bluff and safety in the dawn, the Douglas' cabin was still...
Because of the slovenly conduct of the trip; because of Stead's failure to find his position by a simple standard orientation problem; because the Oakland office failed to recognize the inconsistency of Stead's course with the course to be flown on the northeast leg, and for many other reasons, the Air Board found: 1) that the crash was due primarily to bad judgment by Pilot Stead and two Oakland dispatchers, Thomas P. Van Sceiver and Philip Stever Showalter; 2) that U. A. L.'s procedures for aiding aircraft under such an emergency were inadequate...