It was 27 minutes past noon; the bright summer sky was partly covered with clouds. Flight 624 of United Air Lines, nine hours out of Los Angeles and two hours east of Chicago, was purring sweetly at 17,000 feet over ridge-ribbed central Pennsylvania. In his four-engined 300-m.p.h. DC-6, Veteran Pilot George Warner Jr. received his clearance from the traffic-control tower at New York City's La Guardia Fieldmeaning that he could let down gradually in the next 230 miles for his approach to New York.
Eight thousand feet below, Pilot Earl Bach, plugging along toward Philadelphia in a DC-3, heard the...
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