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Show Utah Flight Plan Upheld Line's Order Cited as Vindicating Board In the face of federal government belittling of their recommendation that planes fly at higher altitudes out of Salt Lake City, spokesmen for the state aeronautics commission commis-sion Thursday, pointed to United Air Lines' ordering higher flights as vindicating the stats recommendation. recommen-dation. After United Air Lines announced that ships would fly at 13.000 and 14.000 feet elevation between Salt Lake City and Cheyenne, when flying fly-ing by instrument, the state commission, com-mission, through W. D. Hammond, chairman, disclosed that the commission com-mission had recommended th de- (Continued on Peee Seven) (Column Pourl UTAH'S FLIGHT-PLANADOPTED FLIGHT-PLANADOPTED (Continued from Pagt One) partment of commerce require higher altitudes In flights. In Washington, D. C, Thursday. Fred Fagg Jr., federal bureau of air commerce director, expressed doubt whether the October 17 Main-liner Main-liner crash oould have been avoided by higher altitude requirements. Of Little lee' "You can impose all sorts of altitude alti-tude requirements, but when a pilot gets lost sometimes they are of little use." a dispatch quoted Mr. Fagg. "Up to now both the bureau of air commerce and the United Air Lines have been of the opinion that the altitude flying regulations in this particular area (Salt Lake City to Cheyenne.) were adequate. "The Utah commission's recommendations, recom-mendations, together with other suggestions, are being given the most careful consideration." Comment on this development was as follows in Salt Lake City: Mr. Hammond "I would rather run into anything ice, wind or anything else at a high altitude than I would a mountain at a low altitude, or at any other altitude." 'Doubly Safe' J. E. Garn, director of the state aeronautical commission "The fact that United Air Lines put regulations regula-tions Into effect telling planes to fly at higher altitudes proves that our recommendations for high altitude alti-tude flying must have been all right." Major R. W. Schroeder, vice president presi-dent and manager of operations for United Air Lines "The fact that we made regulations requiring higher high-er altitude flights on instruments does not mean that flights on instruments in-struments at lower altitudes as were in effect before were unsafe. It merely indicates that we are attempting at-tempting to discover if flying at higher altitudes is any safer. "If I drove an automobile 30 years ago with tha headlights they use on automobiles today, I probably proba-bly would have been arrested for having blinding lights, because at that time automobiles used kerosene lamps. "If I drove an automobile today using kerosene lamps, as I did 30 years ago, I would be arrested for being a menace on the highways. As aviation progresses it becomes safer, and we try to make it safer through experiment and research." |