¶ The U. S. S. Akron was in "excellent structural condition" when she took off April 3.
¶Her officers & crew were skilled, competent.
¶Weather forecasts justified the takeoff.
¶Captain Frank Carey McCord "committed an error in judgment" in not striking a course which would have kept the ship out of the storm centre.
¶But ''everything within the knowledge of Commander McCord at the time his decision was made might have pointed to his plan of action being justifiable. Certainly we know that many conflicting considerations had to be set one against the other,...
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