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Sanford J. Langa, P.O. Box 90, Puunene, Hawaii, a graduate of the Wasatch Academy, Mt. Pleasant, Utah...
United Air Lines Trip 4 swung east toward Wasatch Mountains, began the half circle that would bring it in over Salt Lake City airport from the south. It was 11 o'clock at night, and most of the passengers on the sky sleeper were in their beds. The red, white and green lights of the landing field twinkled mistily under a drizzling rain, but ceiling and visibility were not bad: 1,600 feet and nine miles...
...mechanical difficulty. Although the rain gave way to sleet and snow within a half-hour, neither Pilot Brown nor pilots who came in before & after had reported icing difficulty. Wind was northwesterly, velocity 20 m.p.h. The Salt Lake City radio range, whose faulty operation misled another mainliner into a Wasatch ridge in November 1940, was working normally. Had Don Brown been 300 feet higher, he would have cleared the knob...
...rugged, deceptive high-low Wasatch mountain range Trip 4 was the fifth commercial airliner to crash since 1934 for a total of 61 lives. For United Air Lines, holder of the National Safety Council's 1941 safety certificate, it marked the end of 17 months, and 409,000,000 revenue passenger miles, without fatality to passenger or crew...
...morning and a light snow was falling, ruddy in the red glow of the obstruction lights. Off to the east, three miles away, the radio operator on the roof of the municipal airport could see the lights of Salt Lake City. Beyond, and to the northeast, the Wasatch Mountains jutted. From the west came the rumble of two big engines, over the radio the businesslike voice of veteran United Air Lines Pilot Howard Fey, eastbound from San Francisco...