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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
Pub. Date
2016.
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An American Airlines Convair 240 on its way from Boston to Chicago became the first air tragedy in the Albany, New York capitol area. The disaster was due in part to fog that would not lift on the morning of the crash. The plane ran into two separate radio towers after the pilot made an incorrect decision while waiting to land. Air traffic was another factor in the tragedy as were wing flaps that failed to deploy. The pilot of the Convair was familiar...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2017.
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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...
4) 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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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
Pub. Date
2016.
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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 Gandt
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2012.
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"Originally published by Wm. Morrow in 1995, SKYGODS is the story of Pan American World Airways from its meteoric ascent to its plunge to extinction. Pan Am blazed the way across the world's oceans with its magnificent Clipper ships, launched the first international jet service, was the first to fly the behemoth 747, was the lead customer for America's SST and the Concorde, and was even taking reservations for the first commercial flights to the moon....
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
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The Standard Airliner that crashed on approach to Burbank, California on July 11, 1949 was an unscheduled New York to California flight. The Curtiss Wright C-46 crashed after beginning its descent into a cloud bank. A subsequent hearing held by the Civil Aeronautics Board considered pilot error as well as other factors. Among the oddities associated with this doomed flight was a fistfight between two passengers. This fracas occurred somewhere between...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2015.
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A $1 million Eastern Air Line propeller plane with 84 people on board exploded suddenly approximately five minutes after takeoff on February 8, 1965. The causes of the crash involved an incoming Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 as well as scientific principles used regularly among those who fly aircraft. These include spatial perception, spatial separation, and depth perception. My e-book considers the more technical aspects of what caused Flight...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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A Flying Tiger turboprop flying east missed a runway near Burbank, California on the night of December 15, 1962. The aircraft was carrying four crew members, one passenger and toys it had obtained on a trip to Boston. Visibility was severely impeded by fog. Crashing into a neighborhood of residences and industrial buildings, fires broke out when the aircraft exploded and spilled its fuel haphazardly. Five people were killed on the ground but there...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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The huge KLM Super Constellation with its 4 propeller driven engines crashed into the Atlantic Ocean around dawn on August 14, 1958. The plane's flight originated in Amsterdam and the difficulty began soon after a stopover for refueling in Shannon, Ireland. My e-book looks at the likely reasons that the giant aircraft came down suddenly, and with little warning, descending two miles very rapidly, and belly flopping into the ocean about 50 miles west...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
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
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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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
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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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
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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The cause of the crash of an Air France Lockheed Super Constellation off the Atlantic Coast of Dakar, Senegal, in West Africa, has never been fully determined. Flight 343 was preparing to land when it was inexplicably lost in a rainstorm. All 63 persons on board, including a flight crew of 8, were killed. Theories that have been put forward to explain the plane coming down in the ocean include one which says that it made contact with a giant wave...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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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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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
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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
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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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
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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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
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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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
Pub. Date
2017.
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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...
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