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...Paris' Orly Field one night last week Pilot Herbert Tansey got his takeoff signal from the control tower and headed T.W.A.'s big four-engine Constellation down the light-bordered runway. Airborne, he picked up the landing gear and set the Star of Cairo on her course northwest for Shannon, Eire, the first stop on the regular Paris-New York run. It was midnight...
...Tansey got the latest weather report. A ground mist was hanging over Rineanna Field at Shannon. It had all but "socked in" the airdrome; the ceiling was at 500 feet, the minimum for night landings there. Perhaps the Star of Cairo might have to go to Prestwick, Scotland, or another alternate field. Anyhow, there was plenty of time to decide...
When the Star of Cairo reached Rine anna at 2 a.m., Tansey was told the ceiling had fallen a bit; it was 400 feet, but there were signs that it would lift...
Perhaps if Pilot Tansey had pulled up to 1,000 or 1,500 feet, to circle and wait, the flight might have been routine to the end. But he was at 500 feet and there he started to circle. Through the scudding lower clouds he could catch occasional glimpses of the ground. "As he passed through one of these clouds," a T.W.A. official said later, "the plane apparently lost altitude and Tansey said he was suddenly flying into the ground...
Score-Harvard 39, Holy Cross 26. Goals-Herrick 8, Shirk 6, Lundberg 4, Tansey 3, Finneran 2, Lee 2, Litman, Mautner, McManus. Fouls-Shirk 3, Finneran, Litman, Lundberg, Mautner, McGowan, McManus, Trunflo. Referee-Murphy...