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employed by United as First Officer on June 7, 1937, shortly after leaving the Army. A short time prior to the accident he had been promoted from First Officer to Captain and had flown as Captain for approximately 27 hours.
First Officer Sandegren had logged approximately 153 hours of instrument flight time and had been given a flight check under simulated instrument conditions by a company check pilot on June 10, 1940. He also had been rated by the check pilot as "standard".
First Officer Sandegren had taken the physical examination required by the Civil Air Regulations on May 31, 1940, and the company physical examination on March 11, 1940, both of which indicated that he was in satisfactory physical condition.
Thus it appears from the evidence that both Captain Fey and First Office Sandegren were physically qualified, held the proper certificates of competency, and, by reason of their training and experience, were competent airline pilots in both instrument and contact operation.
AIRPLANE AND EQUIPMENT
The airplane involved in the accident, aircraft NC 16086, was a Douglas DC-3A, serial No. 1925. It was manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Corporation of Santa Monica under approved type certificate No. 669 and was delivered to United by the manufacturer on February 4, 1937, The airplane had accumulated a total of approximately 8,694 hours of flight time. It was equipped with two Fratt and Whitney twin Wasp SIC3G engines rated at 1100 h. p. each. The left engine, serial No. 1508, had accumulated a total of about 3,653 hours and the right engine, serial No. 1534, a total of about 4,007 hours. The engines were equipped with Hamilton Standard hydromatic, constant speed,
