the crash have been avoided?
Some newspapers that had praised him suddenly suggested pilot error.
Dad became the subject of harsh speculation.
“The fuel supplier was powerful,” he said. “I was just a young first officer. Blaming me was easier.”
What hurt most was Ruth’s mother.
She attended the investigation hearings and sat in the front row, staring at him silently.
Dad believed she blamed him for her daughter’s death.
Fourteen months passed before investigators established the full cause.
Fuel contamination had affected multiple aircraft.
Their final report cleared Dad
