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It has been 100 years since the first airfield was established in the country town of Yeovil. Since 1915, aircraft have been designed, manufactured and tested at Westland, including the Lysander, used to transport British agents to Europe during the Second World War. In 1948 the company focused solely on helicopters and its aircraft have been sent all over the world since then, used in lifesaving with Air Ambulance and Search and Rescue and deployed...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2015.
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1 online resource.
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A plane crash in the Portuguese Azores in October 1949 was devastating to the worlds of boxing and concert music. The tragedy took the life of Marcel Cerdan, a former middleweight champion and the most talented and revered French athlete of the post World War II era. Ginette Neveu, a violin virtuoso and former teen prodigy also died on the Lockheed L-749 Constellation. My e-book discusses the causes of the event in which the plane crashed against...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2016.
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Continental Airlines was in business for 28 years before it incurred its first airline fatalities. This happened near the border of Iowa and Missouri on the night of May 22, 1962. The plane was flying into a line of thunderstorms and received a warning as it neared its landing at Kansas City Municipal Airport. The airliner came down in bits and pieces before its fuselage crashed into a farm. The Boeing 707 which crashed was the same plane that was...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2018.
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Soon after midnight on March 25, 1958 a Braniff Airways DC-7C plummeted from the sky. Disaster occurred soon after takeoff from Miami International Airport. A nearby nightwatchman saw the plane's impact and heard the screams of the fifteen survivors on board. The crash was the first ever at Miami International. Among the dead was the daughter of famed French composer Paul Dukas, the writer of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Another who perished was a...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2016.
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The crash of a Lockheed Electra L-188C near Tell City, Indiana was the third major disaster involving the Electras to occur within a year's time. The Electra was a propeller plane that possessed the speed of a jet and had considerable power. The Tell City crash was pivotal for after this the FAA reduced its flying speed from 400 mph while investigations were carried out regarding the problems that caused the crashes. 63 persons died on the L-188C...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2017.
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1 online resource
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Pan American-Grace Airlines formed in 1928. It combined Pan Am and W. R. Grace and Company The latter was already a formidable cultural force in Peru as early as the 1920s. On July 16, 1932 a Pan Am-Grace Ford Tri-Motor airliner, the San Jose, disappeared in the Andes Mountains near Santiago, Chile. The plane carried six passengers and a crew of three. The pilot was renowned international flier Charles R. Robinson of Chicago. Two others on the flight...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2016.
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An American Airlines Boeing 727 that crashed on its approach to landing at Greater Cincinnati Airport in November 1965 was the second Boeing 727 to come down in only a few months time. One exploded in a ball of flame before it fell into Lake Michigan the previous August. The Cincinnati crash involved poor weather and visibility along with pilot error. It was a wet rainy Monday night when Flight 383 from New York crashed in Constance, Kentucky, site...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2017.
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Continental Charters had only recently purchased the C-46A commando plane from the United States government. It was the second flight for the Miami based company since June 1951. There was a delay of several hours in Miami before takeoff for Pittsburgh. My e-book looks at the disappearance of the plane and the intense search that followed soon after. The U. S. Coast Guard, local civil air patrols from New York and Pennsylvania, Naval Reserve units...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2017.
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A United Airlines DC-4 crashed into Medicine Bow Peak on the night of October 6, 1955. The 12,500 summit is located in the Medicine Bow Mountain Range of Albany County, Wyoming. The accident has never been completely explained. Perhaps the likeliest explanation for the disaster is that Pilot C. C. Cooke took a shortcut to compensate for Flight 409's having been more than eighty minutes behind schedule. The airliner left Denver en route to Salt Lake...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2016.
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A United Airlines DC4 airliner crashed soon after attempting to abort a takeoff at LaGuardia Airport the day before Memorial Day in 1947. On the plane included a former lieutenant on his way to wed his fiancee in Cleveland. There was also a young woman destined to visit her parents who had an important job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The plane's pilot Captain Lucky Baldwin tried to stop the plane from taking off while on his...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2017.
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1 online resource
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A United Airlines turboprop commercial airliner crashed in clear weather near Parrottsville, Tennessee on July 9, 1964. Observers noticed a trail of smoke coming from beneath the plane as it flew low over the rural Tennessee mountains. The Viscount 745D smashed directly into a hillside before it exploded and burned. The area was so remote that a road was cut into the hill gradient by recovery workers. This made the region more accessible to teams...
12) An American Airlines DC-3 Crashes In The Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, February 10, 1944
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2016.
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1 online resource
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An American Airlines transcontinental flight crashed into the Mississippi River near midnight on February 10, 1944. The cause of the crash has never been entirely explained. The Civil Aeronautics Board promised additional investigation into the tragedy but never went through with it. The plane had 24 persons on board, including 12 members of the armed services. The crash occurred some 18 miles from Memphis with the airliner plunging into a 22 foot...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2016.
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The Strato-Freight airliner that crashed off the coast of Puerto Rico in June 1949 was a converted army transport C-46. It had once been used to carry fully armed troops. The airline company, based in Connecticut, had added room in the plane to seat more passengers. Four minutes after takeoff the plane crashed off the island's northern coast, a result of a failure of its right engine. My e-book looks at the story of an airline stewardess from Binghamtom,...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2017.
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1 online resource
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The Boeing Stratocruiser was a double-decked luxury airliner that offered lounges and cocktails to its passengers. Pan Am Flight 202/28 had completed the first leg of its El Presidente tour before taking off in the early morning hours of April 29, 1952. Having already flown to Rio De Janeiro from Buenos Aires, Argentina, the airliner was on its way to New York with its next stop in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Pilot Albert Grossarth transmitted an "all...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2016.
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1 online resource
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The crash of the Alaska Airlines jet into Mount Fairweather on September 4, 1971 has never been explained definitively. A National Transportation Safety Board report hinted that the flight crew acted properly with the incorrect information they were given. However the same NTSB report stated that the cockpit might have acted more responsibly to prevent a crash. The landing at Juneau Municipal Airport was inhibited by steep mountains and inclement...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2016.
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1 online resource
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Two giant commercial airplanes collided above the Grand Canyon on the morning of June 30, 1956. Both planes had taken off from a Los Angeles airport approximately three minutes apart from one another. The crash brought calls for increased airline regulations and the FAA was created in the aftermath of the disaster. Yet four years later a similar crash occurred above New York City. Ironically the airlines involved were TWA and United Airlines, the...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2016.
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1 online resource
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A midair collision occurred near National Airport in Washington, DC on November 1, 1949. A P38 World War II plane and a commercial airliner came together when a Bolivian pilot in the P38 either did not hear air traffic controllers, or failed to respond to their commands. The crash left 53 persons dead, all of them aboard the Eastern DC4. Ironically, the P38 pilot survived the crash. He was injured severely but nevertheless was the sole survivor in...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2018.
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1 online resource
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On February 12, 1963 a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 720B commercial airliner crashed deep in the Florida Everglades. The plane was a Boeing model slightly smaller than the 707. The 720B was most often used for short trips. More than 100 of them were in use in 1963. At takeoff the aircraft flew into skies filled with thunderstorms and rain squalls. The pilot asked permission to climb to a recommended 25,000 feet. Soon fishermen in the Everglades...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2017.
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1 online resource
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The KLM Constellation that crashed on approach to Santa Cruz Airport in Bombay, India killed all 45 persons on board. Among them were 13 American journalists, two of them Pulitzer Prize winners. They worked for Time, Scripps-Howard, Business Week and many more newspapers and publications. The flight arriving from New Delhi was stopping en route to Amsterdam and finally New York. The big airliner was flying into an incessant rain produced by an Indian...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2015.
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Lake Pontchartrain is a saltwater lake in southeast Louisiana that is approximately 30 miles from end to end. My e-book looks at plane crashes that have occurred in the lake from 1949-2014. The majority of the crashes I have researched are small planes but there are several that I have included of a large size. One of these was an Eastern Air Lines DC-8 and the other was a B-25 Bomber. Only the DC-8 , an Eastern Air Lines flight that carried 58 passengers...
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