Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senate Investigator Charles Heave Dolan: The Air Bureau economized to a hazardous extent, "violated regulations 100% in some districts," was lax in reporting forced landings, blamed more than 80% of crashes on weather or plane personnel. U. S. airlines, though deeply in the red as a whole, still spend great sums on new safety equipment, are chiefly responsible for making U. S. air transport five times safer now than...
Senate Investigator Charles Harry Payne: On a 9,000-mi. inspection trip, he found "lack of training, laxity, indifference and an almost complete lack of understanding of the requirements of a pilot." Near Charlottesville, Va., calling for weather data, he found the observer away, his wife at the post. Said she: "I reckon from where I'm sitting it's cloudy." Trembling with emotion, Witness Payne ended by shouting: "Take the Department of Commerce out of politics. You are gambling with human lives...
President Edgar Staley Gorrell of the Air Transport Association: The Government should join the operators in the installation of more weather bureaus, more beacons, continuance of research, extension of personnel. Estimated cost...
...Philippine Clipper took off attempting the same feat, got to Manila on schedule, was delayed there four days by bad weather. Back in Honolulu, she made one false start for San Francisco, tried again, finally got there with one engine dead...
...Flight scheduled, canceled because of bad weather...