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Show Plane Crash Prober Reveals Factor to Be Studied in Quiz Federal and Airlines Off icials Prepare for Opening of Public Hearing The fact that many airplane dispatchers are not licensed pilots, yet play an important role in directing pilots' activities during "dirty" weather, was disclosed Monday as one factor to be studied as federal and airline officials prepare to determine what sent a United Air Lines Mainliner to its doom in northeastern Utah on October 17. Miller C. Foster, sssistsnt to the assistant secretsry of commerce, said thst st a department of commerce com-merce hearing open to the public, and to begin at J p. m. Tuesday In the federal building, this factor will be considered. "In fact, we will go Into any phase that may present itself in our de-term de-term lnstion to learn the causs of the disaster," he said. "Ths course of the investigation will be guided largely by day-to-day developments." develop-ments." Mr. Foster, who will preside at the hearing, conferred Monday at , the Hotel Utah with Byron M. Ja-l Ja-l cobs and E. L Yuravich, officials . of the buresu of air commerce. The trio journeyed to the crash sits on Humpy ridge Sunday und spent most of the day examining wreckage. wreck-age. The question of dispatchers' qualifications qual-ifications arose when Rslph Knapp. a flier at Pocatello. Idaho, said that experienced transport pilots must take flying orders from dispatcher "many of whom never have actually flown a plane." "Not more than 13 to 20 per cent of these dispatchers ever have actually ac-tually flown solo In s plane." Knapp said, ths Associated Press reported. "A pilot must rsdio the dispatcher before he can change his flight plan, regardless of sudden weather changes that might causs serious flying conditions. "On many occasions during a sudden sud-den storm the radio may not be working properly." The Pocatello flier, one of the first to obtain an Idaho pilot's license, (Continued on Pact rival iCulumn four) Writing Last Chapter in Tragic Story fjfQ A: 4 MAP FINAL PLANS FOB PLANE CRASH HEARING IN SALT LAKE J. YV. Lankford, left; Miller C. Foster, E. L. Yuravich, Byron M. Jacobs |