Coach Knute Rockne and 7 others in a tri-motor
aircraft flying over Kansas enroute to Florida
crashed due to structural failure with its wing
having fallen off due to manfacturing flaws
and "compromised wood" due to bad weather.
Because of that national
loss (as President H. Hoover
put it), federal authorities
from 1930 forward led
changes in aviation safety,
maintenance, and aircraft
regulation . . .
the company was Transcontinental
& Western Air
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