Fingers Crossed

Last March 26 a Braniff Airways Chicago-Dallas airliner cracked up near Oklahoma City's airport on a night takeoff, killing seven passengers and the stewardess. Since then no U. S. airline has suffered a passenger fatality. With five weeks to go for the first year of perfect operations, the National Safety Council made its fourth annual air-safety awards last week in Manhattan.

To big American Airlines went the Group A prize for the "best air transport accomplishment" to date: a record 633,802,388 miles flown in the last four years without a passenger fatality. More astonishing, however, was the record of Pennsylvania-Central Airlines (Washington-Pittsburgh-Cleveland-Detroit-Milwaukee), Group B winner: no deaths, no crash injuries in 92,516,221 miles flown over the last twelve years--the line's entire operating life.

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