The Constellation Star of Hollywood droned over the Atlantic at 250 m.p.h., bound from Newfoundland to the Azores. It was 7:25 p.m. All seemed well. At 19,000 feet she was well above the overcast, and the T.W.A. ship was pressurized for the comfort of 21 passengers and the crew. In a couple of hours the moon would be up. Navigator George Hart climbed into the astrodome, a transparent plastic bubble atop the fuselage, and started to shoot the stars with his sextant.
Suddenly there was a roar and a rush of air, and the navigator vanished. Said Flight Engineer Dick...
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