Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough was the fact that an Army bomber and an American Airlines plane had collided 9,000 ft. over California's San Gorgonio Pass and that twelve had lost their lives when the airliner, its tail assembly shorn off, had spun to earth and burned (TIME, Nov. 2). Far worse was the reason...
After the game seemed doomed to a scoreless tie, Ralph West, Deacon tail-back, intercepted a desperate Bunny pass on their 40 and ran for a score. The extra point try was missed by drop-kicker George Albion...
Luftwaffe Shocked. The secret of the Fortress' power in air combat is its batteries of ten to thirteen .50-caliber Browning machine guns in nose, tail, top and belly turrets...
...plane veer off to the side, then come back toward the transport at an angle. Suddenly "they looked like one plane, they were so close." Sky-watching citizens in Palm Springs thought they saw someone bail out in a parachute. But what they saw was the transport's tail assembly. Then the airliner screamed crazily earthward, careened into a mountainside. The wreckage burned for five hours; the three crew members and nine passengers, including Songwriter Ralph Rainger (Moanin' Low, Love in Bloom), were dead...
...later the Western Defense Command announced that the trailing plane that clipped the tail assembly was an army bomber. About all other details it was mum. Airline officials and pilots had cause to say: "I told you so." Long & loud have been their complaints about Ferry Command pilots who hop on & off the airlines' beam without reporting positions to traffic controls. One pilot reported last week he had to pull up the nose so fast to avoid hitting an army plane that he almost threw his passengers through the floor. The Army and CAA immediately launched an investigation: this...