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Air Safety (Continued
director of the CAB's bureau of safety
regulations. "The avenue to safety is
strewn with many a costly safety 'gim
mick' whose ultimate effect was worse
than the defect it was designed to cure." -
Bakke cites this example: In the late
'40s, airlines were plagued by several fires
that broke out in inaccessible baggage
compartments. The fires themselves were
traced generally to serious design boners
that caused two new airliner types to be
grounded for major modifications. Even
while the Government and the aviation
industry were correcting these deficien
cies, pressure mounted for better fire- and"
smoke-detection systems, plus fire-extinguishing
systems that could douse in-flight
blazes in cargo compartments.
At a great expense, the airlines hastily
incorporated such systems in their equip
ment. The problem seemed solved until
a day in June, 1948, when an airliner was
cruising near Mount Carmel, Pa.
The crew was suddenly alerted to an
apparent fire in a forward baggage com
partment. The pilot pumped carbon diox
ide, a fire-extinguishing chemical, into
the suspected area. He was giving Air
Traffic Control a calm account of the inci
dent when his voice became garbled and
incoherent. The plane went into a sweep
ing spiral and crashed, killing all aboard.
. The investigation disclosed two ironies.
There was no fire in the baggage com
partment; the new detection system had
given a false alarm. And the carbon diox
ide, intended as a lifesaver, had pene
trated the cockpit, incapacitating the crew
until they lost control of the aircraft.
In hastily designing a fire-extinguishing
system for a baggage area, the engineers
unfortunately had not eliminated all pos
sibilities that deadly carbon , dioxide might
get into the cockpit.
"The bitterest irony of all," Bakke
notes, "was to learn that this accident
alone caused three times as many fatali
ties as had resulted from all the baggage
compartment fires in aviation history."
All airliners now have fire-extinguishing
systems which will not allow chemical
fumes to enter cockpits or cabins. This
was achieved after painstaking research
and thorough testing an achievement, it
might be noted, that made no front pages.
Bakke himself concedes that the cover
age ' given major accidents inevitably
overshadows .the space allotted the solu
tions and the corrections; an air crash
admittedly is dramatic.
"In my opinion," the CAB top crash
prober adds, "the 'fix' is the most dramatic
part of the story and deserves to be ac
corded as much attention as the accident.
Because it has not been , I believe the pub -lie
has never fully appreciated the remark
able improvement in aviation safety over
the last 20 years."
The Rev. Howard B. Smith
co National Church Headquarters
New York, N. Y.
Dear Howard:
I see by the papers that you gave a speech
at the recent national convention. Thou
sands heard you, and thousands more read
the newspaper account
Maybe you don't remember me, Howard,
but I've never forgotten you since the day
I fell down in front of you on my roller
skates.
You didn't get around to asking me for
a date until three years later, of course, but
you were worth waiting for. Even with your
high-school freckles, I thought you were a
combination of Cary Grant and Clark Gable.
All summer the four of us were together,
you and I and our best friends, Mary and
Bill. I always thought Mary was the pret
tiest girl in our class. Remember how we
played tennis and danced and went to all
the basketball games?
The thing I remember best of all about
you, Howard, was the night you said you
wanted to see me alone because you had
family Weekly, August 14, I960
something to ask me. All the time I was
putting on my new dress and popping the
popcorn, I was imagining what I'd say when
you invited me to go steady. It wasn't a
matter of yes or no; it was how to say yes
without blushing.
So you came, Howard, in the shining ar
mor of your gray slacks and blue shirt, and
I thought you were beautiful. After you'd
eaten most of the popcorn, you looked
straight into my admiring eyes, and you
said,
"Say, do you think I have a chance with
Mary?"
I swallowed a big gulp of astonished air
and then I said: "Yes, I think you do."
And you did.
So that's about all I had to say in this
letter, Howard, except for one thing. I was
. pretty interested in the subject of the ad
dress that won you such recognition.
It was entitled "Understanding."
You should have let me write the speech.