Air Mail scandal accidents and incidents
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air-mail-scandal-accidents-and-incidents-191-2193777
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Air Mail scandal accidents and incidents
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In 1934, all United States commercial air mail carrying contracts were cancelled due to controversy over how the contracts had been awarded. The United States Army Air Corps was charged with carrying air mail service, beginning 19 February 1934. Due in part to extremely bad weather, inadequate preparation of the mail pilots, and the inadequacies of pressing military aircraft into duties for which they were not designed, there ensued a series of accidents over the following three months, ending w
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Aspect of aviation history
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Mail_scandal_accidents_and_incidents
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2024-04-03T06:43:07Z
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