Ross Nixon - Finding Carla
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FINDING CARLA
Ross Nixon is a fantastic storyteller and knows a fantastic story to tell. Finding Carla is a captivating tale about aviation judgment, the will to survive and the aviation communitys enduring ambition to make flying safer for all. If youd like to know why airplanes today carry emergency locator transmitters, or just have a need to be kept on the edge of your seat with an engaging story, then you must read Finding Carla.
Rod MachadoAuthor, Speaker, Flight Instructor
I just finished the draft of your book, Finding Carla. I am so impressed with your ability to put the facts, the testimony of others, your own thoughts and aviation expertise into an important story. I could not put it down!
Johnny MooreAuthor, FAA Wright Brothers Master Pilot 2015
An enthralling, exceptionally well written and researched book an epic story of air crash survival and death in the wilds of Northern California... I recommend this book without reservation. A must read for every pilot and layman alike.
G. Pat Macha, www.aircraftwrecks.com
A real page turner. Thank you Oien family for saving thousands of lives. Your pain and suffering was not in vain.
Jim and Ferno Tweto, Flying Wild Alaska
Finding Carla
The story that forever changed aviation search and rescue
by Ross Nixon
Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc.
7005 132nd Place SE | Newcastle, Washington 98059-3153
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2016 Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher and Ross M. Nixon assume no responsibility for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.
Portions of the Phyllis Oien/Carla Corbus diary (MarchMay of 1967) appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in a January, 1968 article by Harold H. Martin entitled Please Hurry, Someone, as well as in many other news accounts of the time. The actual Oien/Corbus diary is owned by the Oien Family and is used here with permission. No portions of it may be copied from this book without written permission of the publisher and the family.
ASA-FIND-EB
ISBN 978-1-61954-344-7
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016005074
Photo credits: All photographs are owned by the Oien family, except where otherwise indicated in text and as follows (page numbers refer to print edition)pp.xii, 183, 184, 185, Ross Nixon; p.181, 182, Curtis Licensing (used with permission); front cover photo, iStock/llvllagic.
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From the well-pored-over, often-folded sectional-aeronautical map of the Trinity Mountains area of Northern California that the Oien brothers used while searching for their dads downed Cessna 195. Al Jr. indicated in pencil several other wrecks he found by circled-airplane symbols.
Ever since the Code of Hammurabi was scribed onto stone, people have said, there oughta be a law about that! We now live under the rule of law and there are more laws now than Hammurabi could possibly chisel into stone. Sometimes we feel a new regulation is just another mandate being jammed down our throats, but when the lawmakers name the law from the inspiration for it, that makes it easier to see the humanity behind it: the Lindberg Law, the Adam Walsh Child Protection Law, and Kristens Law are all such examples of rules that came to be from tragedies lived out by individuals.
The ELT beacon law, signed into the regulations in 1970 as a rider to the OSHA bill, could well be called Carlas Law. In the 1960s there had been a push for ELT beacons to be installed in aircraft in the USA, but in the halls of our nations Capitol the political will to mandate them aboard aircraft did not exist. Though it would save millions of dollars in SAR costs and save lives, the usual suspects that detract from progress interfered: expense, interruption of the status quo, and political gamesmanship.
It appalled Senator Pete Dominick of Colorado, a flyer himself, that a simple radio beacon that could pinpoint crashes was not mandatory equipment aboard U.S. aircraft. There was a list of accidents read by an increasingly frustrated Senator into the congressional record. When the details of the Carla Corbus accidentthe events of this storymade headline news, it was the shocking straw that broke down all political resistance. It was almost as if fate used Carla and her family to make a terrible point to Pete Dominicks colleagues. In a few short years, ELT beacons, though at that point imperfect, were mandated to be carried onboard all U.S. civil aircraft.
This is a flying story as well as a life story. I pass no judgment on the pilots mentioned in here because I too have worn out a luck charm or two while flying. In retelling this story, my hope is that the messages of this book spread through the aviation world and beyond, and cause people to think about what is important in flying and lifeand maybe even about how they want to be remembered. The Oien familys sacrifice in this needs to be remembered.
There are so many people who helped me along the lonely writers path. The story was put to page in pilot quarters all over Alaska, in stark places like Nome, Kotzebue, St. Marys, Bethel, and Barrow. The guys and gals I flew with read portions, knowing I could fly, but probably wondered if I could write. Here is my proof and I thank all my friends who read my works and gave me input.
Two editors from my adopted hometown of Anchorage encouraged me: Rebecca Goodrich and David Holthouse. The ASA editors, Jennie Trerise and Jackie Spanitz, were awesome, too, taking my scribble and turning it into a book. Best of all, being a writer excused me from a lot of man chores at home. My wife Kate often said: Just writeand so I did.
None of us would be anywhere without our moms and Id like to thank mine, Viola Nixon. When I visited Al Oien at his home in Washington, which happened to be my hometown, he and his wife Carol graciously invited me to stay with them, but I always wanted to stay at home, the place mom kept together after an air tragedy struck in our family. Though jolted hard by the loss of our dad, five great kids spring-boarded from that house full of books and ideas adding value to everything weve done.
I thank the Oien boys too, sons of the strong-willed man you will read about, who stepped up to the plate when the big question mark of a missing plane and family came over their lives. They shared their story of how they put aside their feelings towards a man whod been so hard on them. They took care of business, living up to their obligations with honor. They did not give up hope because: He was our dad, they said. The final outcome was beyond their control, but because of the ripple effect of their troubles and loss, aviation is a safer endeavor.
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