Flight hits turbulence; Four hospitalized
     Fort Lauderdale, Fla. - A Northwest Airlines flight from Detroit
 to Fort Lauderdale hit turbulence Wednesday, sending four people to
 the hospital with minor injuries.
     A young boy, a man in his forties and two flight attendents were
 taken to Broward General Medical Center for treatment of minor abra-
 sions and bruises after the Boeing 727 landed.
     The seat-belt warning light was on when Flight 242 was jolted
 about 20 minutes before landing, said airline spokeswoman Kathy
 Peach. The flight carried 126 passengers and a crew of nine.
     Concern about unexpected turbulence has prompted several U.S.
 airlines to change their seat-belt policies in recent weeks to re-
 quire that seated passengers always wear their belts.
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 Canadian fishermen rescued after airline crew spots overturned boat
     PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia - April 8, 1998 3:07 p.m. EDT -
 An airline crew who happened to notice an overturned boat likely
 saved the lives of three British Columbia crab fishermen, officials
 said Wednesday.
     The trio had apparently spent seven hours in the cold water
 clinging to the boat's hull when they were spotted by the crew of an
 Air BC flight leaving Prince Rupert for Vancouver, a rescue official
 said.
     The airplane crew flew back over the boat to double check and
 then radioed rescue officials who dispatched several craft to pick
 up the men, said Capt. Gabriel Ringuette of the Rescue Co-ordination
 Center in Victoria.
     "These guys are very lucky the co-pilot happened to be looking
 out the window. They don't always do that," he said.
     "Who knows when the boat would have been reported overdue. A
 couple of hours and it would have been dark ... and we probably
 would have been looking for bodies that had drifted away from the
 boat," Ringuette said.
     The three fishermen, who were not identified, were treated for
 hypothermia at a local hospital. It was not immediately known what
 caused their boat to capsize.
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          James T. Pyle, air safety pioneer, dead at 84
     NEW YORK - April 9, 1998 07:19 a.m. EDT -- James T. Pyle, who
 was a leader in developing modern air control systems, has died.
 He was 84.
     Pyle died April 1 from complications following a stroke, his
 family said.
     When the Federal Aviation Agency, the precursor of today's FAA,
 was formed in 1959, Pyle became its first deputy administrator. He
 helped develop a system of radar-based ground controls for airplanes
 and was responsible during the Kennedy administration for imposing
 the regulations requiring commercial pilots to retire at 60.
     Pyle devoted his life to aviation after being inspired as a boy
 by Charles Lindbergh's 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Pyle learned
 to fly while at Princeton University and by 1935 joined the adminis-
 tration of Pan American Airways.
     In the Navy during World War II, Pyle was an air controller in
 the South Pacific. After the war, he started a successful air taxi
 service linking Denver with other major cities, but large airlines
 moved in and muscled Pyle out of business.
     His big break came in 1953, when a friend helped him land a
 position as special assistant to the assistant secretary of Navy
 for air in Washington.
     Three years later, he took over as head of the Civil Aeronautics
 Administration and made air safety a priority in the rapidly growing
 air-travel industry.
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