As even airmen admit, the greatest hazard to safe, speedy flying is the weather-beaten air. Item: fortnight ago the pilot of a fogbound American Airlines flagship piled into a California mountain peak, killing all 27 people aboard—the worst commercial air disaster on record. This accident would perhaps never have happened had all the war-born safety devices been in general use.
But as far as U.S. commercial airlines are concerned, there has been no basic change in air traffic control, airway marking, or instrument landing equipment in 15 years—a period that has seen an enormous...
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