Last March 26 a Braniff Airways Chicago-Dallas airliner cracked up near Oklahoma City's airport on a night takeoff, killing seven passengers and the stewardess. Since then no U. S. airline has suffered a passenger fatality. With five weeks to go for the first year of perfect operations, the National Safety Council made its fourth annual air-safety awards last week in Manhattan.
To big American Airlines went the Group A prize for the "best air transport accomplishment" to date: a record 633,802,388 miles flown in the last four years without a passenger fatality. More...
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