- 2/22/43
- Flying Safety
Recommendations.
- Prevention & Investigation
Division, Directorate of Flying Safety.
- Commanding Officer, Safety
Region No. 2.
1. In view of circumstances
surrounding accident of B-25 aircraft on Sharp top
Mountain, 12 miles northwest of Bedford, Virginia,
February 2, home station of aircraft -- Columbia,
South Carolina, the following recommendations are
made:
a.That all pilots and crews
dispatched on night navigational missions under
contact conditions be dispatched at an altitude to
include by at least two thousand feet all obstacles
between point of departure and destination, and
surroundings including beyond destination for a
distance of one hundred miles.
b.That pilot and co-pilot be
specifically warned on night navigational missions to
use reading lights only when absolutely necessary, to
avoid temporary blindness.
c.That operations officers
thoroughly brief trainees in the terrain covered by
the mission including the one hundred miles area
beyond destination, and that trainees be informed that
in emergency such as becoming lost, that additional
altitude be obtained if there are obstacles still
higher in surrounding areas.
- MURRY B. HALL
- Captain, Air Corps
- C. O., Safety Region No
2.
