Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic Clipper crashed at Lisbon last February, killing 24 people, one of the brightest reputations in transport aviation crashed with it. Last week the crash report of the Civil Aeronautics Board marked "official" what airmen already knew: the Atlantic's chief pilot, 50-year-old Captain R.O. D. Sullivan, was responsible for the crash...
Stocky, weatherbeaten Robert Oliver Daniel Sullivan had more than 14,000 hours in his logbook, more than 3,200 of them in Pan Am's great Boeing clippers. But despite his long experience of sea and sky, he could not explain later what happened when he thundered over the dusk-bound estuary of the light-pricked Tagus, what went wrong as he squared away for his landing between the waterborne runway lights...
...feet, under a 5,000-foot ceiling, the roar of the 314's four big engines suddenly died away to a mutter. The Clipper went into a glide. Almost on the water, Rod Sullivan unaccountably wheeled into a turn, brushed a wing on the water. This was his first bad crash in 101 transatlantic flights...
When CABmen got to Lisbon, Rod Sullivan tried to help them solve the mystery of the crash. But he could not understand what had happened. The plane, he said, had suddenly gone into a steep dive. He had pulled the throttles, turned to make an emergency landing. He agreed that a better remedy would have been to increase power to pull the plane out of its unusual attitude. He could not say why he had not done...
...Words, published a collection of his avocational efforts called Songs My Mother Never Sang (Random House, $2.50). This tunesmith's holiday provides musical America with a richly burlesque little sheaf of songs, including numbers entitled Indelible You and Get Off the Pot, and a fine satire on Gilbert & Sullivan, complete with antiphonal chorus effects, entitled He's Not an Aristocrat. The composer's program notes, to boot, are irresistible...