Word: twa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then reports on a few minor crashes have dribbled into the U. S. Press, attracted little attention. Last month TWA's Sky Chief, en route from Los Angeles to Kansas City, cracked up in a Missouri fog, killed both its pilots, three of its eleven passengers including U. S. Senator Bronson Cutting (TIME, May 13). Unable to land at Kansas City because of fog, the plane had proceeded toward a Department of Commerce emergency landing field at Kirksville, Mo., 128 mi. away. About 16 mi. from Kirksville, with only 27 minutes of fuel left, the pilot came down...
...week Secretary of Commerce Roper made public his Department's report on the accident. Based on two weeks of hearings in which 59 witnesses filled 907 pages of testimony, the report blamed the crash principally on bad weather and inaccurate weather reporting by government and company meteorologists, found TWA guilty of five "inexcusable violations" of Federal airline regulations for which it may be fined a maximum of $2,500-the first such fine in U. S. airline history...
...TWA's 33-year-old President Jack Frye flared up with a blunt statement squarely laying blame for the crash not on TWA but on the Department of Commerce. Said he: "The real cause of the accident was that Pilot Bolton attempted to come down through a ceiling reported by the Bureau of Air Commerce observer at Kirksville as 7,000 ft. ... What he actually found was practically a zero-zero condition. . . . The accident occurred . . . solely because the favorable landing conditions reported by the observer at Kirksville did not exist...
...Year ago TWA inaugurated overnight passenger service between New York and Los Angeles with its fast Douglases. Last week its great rival, United Air Lines, having completed a $1,000,000 program to speed up its Boeings with new geared engines and variable-pitch propellers, inaugurated overnight schedules between New York and nine major West Coast Cities. Typical schedule: leave Newark, 4:25 p. m.; arrive Portland...
...picked its way between a farmhouse and a barn near Atlanta, Mo., struck a fence, crashed heavily into a road embankment, turned over. Crushed to death were Pilot Bolton. Co-Pilot Kenneth Greeson, New Mexico's millionaire-Senator Bronson Cutting, a 20-year-old girl-sister of the TWA radio dispatcher who had been directing the plane. Injured were a mother and baby, the wife of a TWA pilot, five Hollywood cinemen and the wife of one, who died next...