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The article focuses on the story about the accident of the Boeing 707 of American Airline Inc. that crashed on take-off into Jamaica Bay in New York which killed all 95 aboard. It stresses the significant task of the U.S. Government's Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), a small and independent agency created by Congress, in the recovery of the engine as well as the dead bodies. It notes that the 171-man Bureau of Safety of CAB is easily investigating every fatal accident of any aircraft.

This article refers to the incident in which Civil Aeronautics Administrator Frederick B. Lee emphasizes on the need of the implanting new radars to control the air traffic conditions and avert accidents. Now that public scrutiny has turned on him. Secretary Sinclair Weeks, whose domain includes CAA, has instructed the agency to draft a request for a $35 million supplemental appropriation for air traffic control. But only six months ago, Secretary Weeks and his Under-Secretary for Transportation, Kansas City department store owner Louis Rothschild were so anxious to protect the public against such a level of expenditure that they forced the showdown which resulted in Lee's dismissal.

The article focuses on the effect of the skydiving incident in north central Ohio, wherein 20 jumpers attempted to jump out of an airplane from 20,000 feet. It states that the jump ended up as the worst death toll in skydiving after 16 of the divers were dead, which left Robert Coy, Bernard Johnson, and two other jumpers as the survivors. It says that the tragedy involved a mistake from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration that led the plane pilot Robert Karns to release the parachutists.

The article focuses on the mysterious disappearance of F-111 planes in Southeast Asia that led to the loss of eight crewmen and hardware cost around 60 million dollars. It states that Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire of Joint Committee on Defense Production asked to ground the F-111 plane for further evaluations due to the losses. It discusses the possible causes of the disappearance, wherein other suggests that the tropical humidity in Southeast Asia damages its complex electronic circuits.