Talk:Fate Is the Hunter

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Requested move

Fate is the Hunter → Fate Is the Hunter … Rationale: capitalization … Please share your opinion at Talk:Fate is the Hunter. --Alan smithee 07:51, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Moved. —Nightst a llion (?) 11:22, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

United Airlines?

This article writeup states the author worked for American Airlines. On pg. 111 of the Simon & Scribner version he is recounting pilots he was assigned with and their fate: "Then Fey and Sandegren crashed against Bountiful Peak in the Wasatch Mountains. The Salt Lake radio range was malfunctioning." Googling for this I found an article from The Evening Independent (unlinkable) from 11/4/40, basically this crash, that lists specifically a United Airlines flight and mentions Howard Fey and Thomas Sandegren. So how could the author be working for American but lamenting over colleagues at United? -Rolypolyman (talk) 17:18, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I looked at that section myself from the version in Google Books (the page in question was fortunately covered by the preview). That United Air Lines crash is indeed the one he was referring to; see for example its coverage in TIME: [1] [2]. He also mentions another crash before that: "About this time Scroggins and Moore were killed. They were flying through a thunderstorm and suddenly dived into the ground." But that one isn't an American Airlines crash either; it was a Pennsylvania-Central Airlines crash.

Looking at the preceding context, Gann is discussing pilots he was working with at the time and what he had learned from them. He then mentions a couple of fatal airliner crashes which occurred around that time (1940). But he never lists the pilots of these flights as being among those he had worked with; in fact, that's the only place in the book where their names appear. So he just seems to be discussing their fates as events affecting the larger community of U.S. airline pilots.

He does go into detail about flying both DC-2s and DC-3s, including the distinct features of each, and this fits his being an American Airlines employee. American flew both of these aircraft; neither United nor Pennsylvania-Central flew the DC-2. --Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 02:53, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Gann flew for American.````