Salt Lake Telegram | 1946-01-31 | Page 1 | Pilot Nemesis

I PiLOT NEMESIS Air Ar Currents Currens J ricky Al AI Sinclair CHEYENNE Wyo Jan 31 INS Tricky Tricky flying weather often otten develops over Sinclair durIng durIng durIng dur dur- Ing cold spells In Wyoming veteran veteran veteran vet vet- eran airmen said Thursday a as search continued for the missing eastbound United Air Lines plane plan which disappeared early this mornIng morning morning morn morn- Ing after flying over the sma small Wyoming oil oU town I The fliers pointed to the exper experience ence last month of ot an army pilot pilo flying from a field in Oklahoma to Hill HUl field Utah When over Sinclair the arm army pilot encountered the so called tricky weather He ordered hi his l crew to immedi immediately lely ball out as h he feared the bomber would crash The cre crewmen parachuted and a afe afew fe few seconds later the pilot found foun d dhe i he was vas able to control his plane The pilot then alone in th the plane was able to make male a safe emergency His crewmen parachuted safely wely but In widely scattered areas near Sinclair I It took three days before the l las last st parachutist was located near nea Hanna Wyo Although the a arm army r m y fliers flier trekked over snow covered ground after parachuting none of at them suffered guttered any effects About miles mUes southeast o of Sinclair at Arapaho peak 1 In Inthe inthe the Colorado old od old timers tuners claim this Is the place where al all all storms are born Fierce windrush winds wind rush out of the Colorado and often they are unpredictable as to their course C Commercial l air lines JInes In flying from the west to Colorado usually skirt the high ranges In Colorado flying as as' far tar cast east as Laramie Wyo before heading south fo for tor Denver