Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without-a-death. Braniff Airways (Chicago-Brownsville. Tex.), which for seven years had not had a passenger fatality, had just been awarded a certificate of Special Commendation by the National Safety Council when a Braniff plane crashed with a dead engine near Oklahoma City, killing seven passengers and a stewardess. A few days later, when stout, middle-aged Tom E. Braniff, president of the line, was receiving the certificate in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel. CAA inspectors were probing through the blackened wreckage of the crash. The year ended in far less embarrassing fashion for Braniff. Last week Braniff Airways...
Last March 26 a Braniff Airways Chicago-Dallas airliner cracked up near Oklahoma City's airport on a night takeoff, killing seven passengers and the stewardess. Since then no U. S. airline has suffered a passenger fatality. With five weeks to go for the first year of perfect operations, the National Safety Council made its fourth annual air-safety awards last week in Manhattan...