Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the control cabin of Condor NC 12354 at Newark Airport one afternoon last week climbed Pilot Clyde Hoi-brook of American Air Lines, onetime War ace, veteran of 10,000 flying hours. Into the passenger cabin climbed Stewardess Margaret Huckeby, onetime nurse. Four passengers followed them in and, last, Copilot John Barron Jr. "Clear!" cried the dispatcher, and the green spotlight across the field showed clear. Pilot Holbrook took off with a roar and headed north for Chicago by way of Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland...
...rough Catskill Mountain country. At noon on the second day Pilots William H. Hallock and Lee Lewis flew low over a wooded peak at Mongaup Park, known locally as "Last Chance Hill," spotted the burned wreckage of NC 12354, the incinerated remains of Pilot Holbrook. Copilot Barron, Stewardess Huckeby & all four passengers. Airline officials deduced that Pilot Holbrook had turned westward to skirt a storm area. Squeezed down by the thick blanket of clouds above, the plane had torn an Soft. swath through the treetops, crashed to earth in a blaze of flame. One body, flung clear of the wreckage...
...motored plane of United until last month when a ship was blown up on the New York-Chicago route (TIME, Oct. 23).* Last week near Portland, Ore. another United plane of the same new type crashed into a hillside in a fog. Pilot and three passengers were killed. Copilot, stewardess and four passengers survived...
...operate on a colleague. Leaving the airport the pilot circled gingerly up through the fog, edging perilously near the hills which rise abruptly to the west. Suddenly a wing tip gouged a tree on the hilltop. Down the ship crashed. It broke apart, caught fire. In an instant Stewardess Libby Wurgaft had the cabin door open. Four times she entered the blazing cabin, each time helped bring out an injured passenger. But nobody could save Dr. Coffey and the other two passengers on his side of the cabin. All three were killed by the crash...
...Smith's behavior was not ominous enough to warrant reporting. He slammed the cabin door shut and in a moment No. 23 roared away-a big twin-motored Boeing of the latest design-with its two passengers, its crew of two pilots and the usual attractive young stewardess. Three hours later No. 23 slid down to Cleveland on time, took off again with two added passengers: a young refrigerator salesman and a radio service man lately employed by the transport company. (The latter's wife was afraid of airplanes so he had not told her all about...