Mayday Over Wichita (24 page)

342
. Ibid.

343
. Ibid.

344
. Ibid.

345
. Adair,
Mystery of Flight 427
, 162–63.

346
. NTSB, Aircraft Accident Report NTSB/AAR-99/01, 77.

347
. NTSB, Aircraft Accident Report of United Airlines Flight 585, NTSB Libraries,
http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/reports/2001/AAR0101.pdf
(accessed November 12, 2011), 112.

348
. NTSB, Aircraft Accident Report NTSB/AAR-99/01, 295.

349
. Ibid., 295.

350
. See Adair's substantive investigation,
Mystery of Flight 427
, for more information on unscheduled rudder deflection and the three flights mentioned.

351
. NTSB, Aircraft Accident Report of United Airlines Flight 585.

352
. Roe, “Report Reveals.”

353
. USAF, Aircraft Accident Report, KC-135 #57-1442 (Raggy 42), 1965.

354
. Ibid.

355
. Roe, “Report Reveals.”

356
. Ibid.

357
. David McCullough,
The Course of Human Events
, CD, 2005, read by the author (New York: Simon and Schuster Audio, 2005).

358
. Also see R. Key Dismukes, Benjamin A. Berman, Loukia D. Loukopoulos,
The Limits of Expertise: Rethinking Pilot Error and the Causes of Airline Accidents
(Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007), 231, 294. The authors describe the crash of American Flight 1340 on February 9, 1998, at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, in which the autopilot malfunctioned and “drove the aircraft toward the ground near decision height.” The authors stated, “We suggest that these situations severely challenge human capabilities and that it is unrealistic to expect reliable performance, even from the best of pilots.” David Gero,
Aviation Disasters: The World's Major Civil Airliner Crashes Since 1950
, 4
^th
ed. (London: Haynes Publishing, 2006), 47–48. Gero describes how on March 1, 1962, a Boeing 707-123B (N7506A) American Airlines Flight 1 leaving New York International Airport to Los Angeles experienced “unexpected rudder deflection to the left, producing yaw, side-slip and roll that in turn led to a loss of control.” Frayed wires on the rudder control system caused a “‘hard-over' signal by the yaw damper, a mechanism designed to sense the onset of a lateral control abnormality and automatically adjust the rudder, and of which the servo is a component.”

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HAPTER
15

359
. Wichita City Manager Russell E. McClure to Congressman Garner E. Shriver, May 4, 1966, MS7701, Box 9, Garner Shriver Papers, Wichita State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives.

360
. Carpenter and Wesley, “Community Response,” 31.

361
. Robert C. Casad, “A Commentary on the Kansas Wrongful Death Act,” 13 U. Kan. L. Rev. 515 (1964-–1965), 523,
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/861
(accessed June 12, 2011).

362
. Colonel Dwight W. Covell to Congressman Garner E. Shriver, May 8, 1967, Shriver Papers.

363
. Guide to Congressional Papers of Kansas Congressman Garner E. Shriver, Special Collections, Ablah Library, Wichita State University,
http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/77-01/77-1-a.pdf
(accessed January 22, 2013).

364
. Garner E. Shriver to Frank T. Priest, August 10, 1965, Shriver Papers.

365
. H.R. Report No. 104, 89
^th
Cong.,1
^st
sess., February 24, 1965. Sec.3; H.R. 8958-Public Law 87-393 for Midwest City crash; H.R. 11644, Public Law 86-476 for Little Rock crash, Shriver Papers.

366
. “Remove Limit 1
^st
Session on Claims McConnell Air Crash,” Public Law 89-65, 89
^th
Cong., 1
^st
sess., 1965. Shriver Papers.

367
. Ibid., sec 3.

368
. Cotter,
Jet Tanker Crash
, 137, italics in original.

369
. Dale W. Bruce to Congressman Garner E. Shriver, April 26, 1967, Shriver Papers.

370
. Cornelius P. Cotter to Lester Brown, March 24, 1967, Shriver Papers.

371
. Dolores Quinlisk, “KC-135 Crash Hardships Linger,”
Wichita Eagle
, August 5, 1965.

372
.
Wichita Eagle
, “Damage Suit Action in KC-135 Crash Halts for Data on Similar Accidents,” March 29, 1967.

373
. Clarence William Walker, interview, March 1969, Shriver Papers.

374
. Report of the Fair-Mark Committee, 1967, 1, Shriver Papers.

375
. Dale W. Bruce to Congressman Garner E. Shriver, April 21, 1967, Shriver Papers.

376
. “Remove Limit 1
^st
Session on Claims McConnell Air Crash.”

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HAPTER
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377
. Report of the Fair-Mark Committee, 1967, 12, Shriver Papers.

378
. Marvin Barnes, “KC-135 Crash Payments Now Total $386,377,”
Wichita Beacon
, November 25, 1967.

379
. Ibid.; Kathy Sipult, “A Day of Death Vivid After 5 Years,”
Wichita Eagle
, January 16, 1970.

380
. Civil Action Case #3585, Report of the Fair-Mark Committee, 1967, 5, Shriver Papers.

381
. Ibid.

382
. Nancy Harris, “8 Suits Settled In 1965 Crash: U.S. to Pay $160,000 in Tanker-Crash Suits,”
Wichita Eagle
, March 27, 1967.

383
. Summary Report of Claims, Air Force Accident, January16, 1965, Wichita, Kansas, Shriver Papers.

384
. Harris, “8 Suits Settled.”

385
. Ibid.

386
. Ibid.

387
. Ibid.

388
. Barnes, “KC-135 Crash Payments.”

389
. Ibid.

390
. Hirschman, “Destruction Stunned City.”

391
. Clayton Koppes, “Victim of Disaster Lives in Agony,”
Wichita Eagle
, January 17, 1966.

392
. Harris, “8 Suits Settled.”

393
. Hirschman, “Destruction Stunned City.”

394
. Memo from Congressman Garner E. Shriver, “Recap-Air Force Claims Wichita Air Disaster-1-16-1965,” Shriver Papers.

395
. Hirschman, “Destruction Stunned City”;
Wichita Eagle
, “Damage Suits in Jet Tanker Crash Pass $1-Million,” February 22, 1966.

396
. Memo from Congressman Garner E. Shriver.

397
. Marvin Barnes, “Boeing Wins Crash Suit Dismissal,”
Wichita Beacon
, January 15, 1968.

398
. Harris, “8 Suits Settled.”

399
. Cotter,
Jet Tanker Crash
, 153.

400
. Widseth interview.

401
. Hubar interview.

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HAPTER
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402
. Bill Hirschman, “Day Will Not Die for Those Who Watched In Horror,”
Wichita Eagle
, January 16, 1985.

403
. Joshua 5:6, King James Version.

404
. David McCullough,
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914
(New York: Simon and Schuster), 1977.

405
. Judith R. Johnson and Craig L. Torbenson, “Stories from the Heartland: African American Experiences in Wichita, Kansas,”
Kansas History
21, no.4 (1998–99): 222.

406
. Ibid.

407
. Kathy Sipult, “After 5 Years, Cold Day of Fiery Death Is Vivid,”
Wichita Eagle
, January 16, 1970.

408
. Widseth interview.

409
. Deb Gruver, “Crash Victims Given Tribute Families Recall Tragic Incident,”
Wichita Eagle
, June 10, 2001.

410
. John Polson, telephone interview with author, January 31, 2013.

411
. Ibid.

412
.
Wichita Eagle and Beacon
, “WSU Grid Team Plane Crashes; 29 of 40 Aboard Feared Dead,” October 3, 1970; National Transportation Safety Board, Martin 404, N464M 8 Statute Miles West of Silver Plume, Colorado, October 2, 1970. Aircraft Accident Report NTSB/AAR-71-4, Washington, D.C., 1970.
http://www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR71-04.pdf
(accessed November 12, 2012).

413
. “Memorial Fund Plans Formed,”
The Sunflower
75, no. 11 (October, 9, 1970); “Football 70 Funds Grow to 11,600 in Donations,”
The Sunflower
75, no. 13 (October 16, 1970), FF 1-47, Box 7, Wichita State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives.

414
. Thomas Carter, interview with author, January 18, 2013.

415
. City Council Proceedings, (Wichita, Kansas), City of Wichita Council Minutes, January 10, 2006,
www.wichita.gov/NR/…/0/01102006Council_Minutes.doc
(accessed December 12, 2012).

416
. Quote from Dr. Carla Lee during the City Council Proceedings in Wichita, Kansas, December 19, 2006. The total cost of the project is also noted in the same meeting,
www.wichita.gov/NR/rdonlyres/…/12192006MINUTES.doc
(accessed December 12, 2012).

417
. Christiana M. Woods, “Memorial in Place, 42 Years,”
Wichita Eagle
, June 29, 2007.

418
. Wichita Park and Recreation, “Piatt Memorial Park,” the City of Wichita Website,
http://www.wichita.gov/CityOffices/Park/Parks/PiattMemorial/
(accessed December 12, 2012); City Council Proceedings, (Wichita, Kansas), City of Wichita Council Minutes November 9, 2004,
www.wichita.gov/nr/…/0/11092004council_minutes.doc
(accessed December 12, 2012).

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419
. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Struggle for Racial Justice,” speech at Recognition Dinner, Atlanta, Georgia, January 27, 1965 (
Newsweek
file, Emory University Special Collections, Atlanta Georgia).

420
. Clyde G. Stevens, e-mail message to author, April 9, 2013.

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