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(2) Compile and analyze the experience of pilots who have flown aircraft through turbulence of extra-ordinary severity; and
(3) Conduct spinning tunnel tests to determine the spin characteristics of the DC-3 and especially its susceptibility to flat spins.
III. It would appear from the present investigation that the carrier's management has failed to provide enough dispatching centers, and so to distribute them as to give prompt service and instruction to pilots in flight over all parts of the carrier's system; and that procedures with respect to flight control were inadequate and should be improved. These matters among others becoming apparent in the first stages of the investigation of this accident, and of the accident which took place near Atlanta, Georgia, on February 26, 1941, were communicated to the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics on May 8, 1941, with a recommendation that he conduct, through his staff, a further examination of these and related matters. The Board is informed that further studies were made by the Air Carrier Inspection Section and that shortly after the accident the carrier established a dispatch office in Miami to supplement the dispatch centers at Atlanta and New York.
BY THE CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD:
/s/ Edward Warner/s/ Oswald Ryan
Edward Warner. Acting ChairmanOswald Ryan, Member
/s/ G. Grant Mason. Jr/s/ George P. Baker
G. Grant Mason, Jr., MemberGeorge P. Baker, Member
Branch, Chairman, did not take part in the decision.
