Horrified at the death of New Mexico's Bronson Cutting in an airplane crash (TIME, May 13, 1935), the Senate started an investigation of the Bureau of Air Commerce, heard its aids to flight safety called "dangerously inadequate" by many an authority (TIME, Feb. 24 et seg.). The best rebuttal of the Bureau was a vote of confidence from more than 1,000 transport pilots. Last week, a subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee disregarded this defense, held the Bureau negligent in the Cutting crash, recommended a drastic overhaul of Bureau personnel.
Criticizing Secretary of...
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