-=> Quoting Jim Dawson to CHRISTOPHER TARANA <=-
 JD> Thanks very much for the info on the early Fokkers. I think it was in
 JD> a Fokker that Knute Rockne, famous coach of Notre Dame football met his
 JD> death when a wing came off during a thunderstorm over Kansas. This
 JD> spelled the end of the wood wing Fokkers in US commercial service and
 JD> paved the way for the all-metal Ford Tri-motor. Carrier in thta
 JD> Accident was a predesesor of TWA. 
        You're welcome.  Generally when catch myself in a mistake, I try
to take the rap for it. :-)  You're right about Knute Rockne dying in a
Fokker crash, and not only did the accident spell disaster for the Fokker,
but ALL foreign built aircraft were subsequently banned from scheduled
airline service.  This continued till the British-built Vickers Viscount
turboprop began to make inroads on American airline routes.
        Christopher
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