Jones trip 6 to Seattle: Plane 66 testing on frequencies 3147.5. . . .
Seattle to Jones trip 6: OK, the correct time is 8:25 p. m. Seattle barometer 29.83. United proceeds only with safety.
Thus began the radio log of United Air Lines' Trip 6Seattle to San Diego, Calif. on the rainy night of November 28, 1938. Nine hours later Co-Pilot Lloyd E. Jones was dead, drowned in the surf off Point Reyes, near Oakland. So were the stewardess and three of the four passengers. The ship, a Douglas DC-3, out of gas, off its course...
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