Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both these incidents point to a serious problem confronting the aviation industry--safe, effective control of air traffic. The present system, geared to handle out-moded DC-3's, is obviously inadequate, and, as planes become faster and more numerous, the situation grows worse...
...till the Grand Canyon disaster on June 30, 1956, almost seventy collisions involving civil airplanes took place(not including a high military total), but none had previously involved passenger planes. Many experts consider it possible, even likely, that a collision might occur over a large city, where the worst traffic jams are located...
...case history of the Grand Canyon disaster indicates some of the shortcomings of the present traffic control system. The two planes--a Trans-World Airlines Super-Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7--took off from Los Angeles three minutes apart and were to fly approximately the same course. The TWA plane, flying at 17,000 feet, ran into a thunderstorm and requested permission from a Civil Aeronautics Administration station, to climb to 21,000 feet; the request was turned down because the UAL plane already occupied that altitude. The TWA pilot then asked to fly 1000 feet "above...
AIRWAYS CZAR may soon be appointed and given absolute power to lay down rigid sky traffic rules to prevent mid-air collisions. Law is hastily being drafted to create a federal aviation agency, which would merge all air controls for military and commercial planes...
Walled In. In Albuquerque, police approached Alex Novogrudski's car to see why it was blocking traffic, pleaded with him for half an hour after he locked the doors and rolled up the windows, towed him to the police station, spent another hour trying to persuade him to open up, finally broke a window, hauled him out and into court, where he was fined...