Word: wilmington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airline and Civil Aeronautics Board investigators pieced things together, the DC-6B had just started a 550-mile over-water leg between Wilmington, N.C. and Miami at the assigned altitude of 18,000 ft. when the plane began to disintegrate...
...hamlet of Bolivia, N.C., 15 miles inland. Pilot Dale Southard, 46, a World War II Military Air Transport Service veteran, evidently had some warning of trouble, for some passengers were wearing life jackets. But he made no emergency radio calls. All signs indicated that he was heading back toward Wilmington, fighting desperately to hold his plane on course as it lost altitude and tore itself apart. Some experts guessed that the trouble could have been caused by a runaway propeller; others wondered about a mid-air explosion...
...Hamilton College on the now-defunct Minneapolis Journal in 1938, went to the Herald Tribune postwar as a reporter after a four-year combat hitch as a Marine Corps officer. He was raised to city editor in 1952, left the paper in 1955 to become executive director of the Wilmington Morning News and Journal-Every Evening (combined circ. 101,468), both owned by Christiana Securities Co., a Du Pont holding company. With Yerxa's return to the Trib, the new top management team is complete-a fact that may calm some of the jitters in the city room...