Rebuttal

Shocked when New Mexico's Bronson Cutting died in an airplane crash in Missouri, the Senate two months ago made the Federal Bureau of Air Commerce squirm by conducting an investigation during which it was charged that the Bureau's aids to flight were "dangerously inadequate" (TIME. Feb. 24). Last week the Bureau of Air Commerce delivered its rebuttal, a vote of confidence from more than 1,000 U. S. transport pilots.

Last September, before the Senate committee held its hearing, the Bureau sent a twelve-page questionnaire to all holders of U. S. transport pilot licenses. By last week 1,152 out of 7,000 questioned had replied. Of 772 pilots employed by airlines, 483 had replied. Overwhelming consensus: Bureau personnel is competent and cooperative, its operations efficient and dependable, its equipment for the most part satisfactory.

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