Summary of Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea

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#1 While flying a route from New York to Newfoundland, the pilot of a Lockheed Super Constellation ran into a storm and had a fire in engine no. 3. He feathered the engine and radioed for maintenance.

#2 flying is 100 times more dangerous today than it was in 1962, when a Super Constellation pilot had a fire in engine no. 3.

#3 In the 1950s, a Lockheed Constellation had a fire in engine no. 3. The wreckage and fatalities mounted, but Murray was loyal. He never forgot how the plane had safely flown him to and from the Aleutian oil fields during World War II, despite some very harsh weather.

#4 On a trip to buy a Jaguar in England, Bob’s wife Edna read in Time magazine that charters were transporting America’s soldiers despite serious safety concerns.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Oct 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350040173

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The pilot, John Murray, was smoking a cigarette when he noticed a fire in engine no. 3. He knew that most alarms weren’t triggered by actual fires, but by a high temperature that might lead to a fire, and that the most likely explanation was a simple electrical malfunction.

#2

Flying has improved greatly since Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first airplane in 1903. However, aviation is still 100 times more dangerous in 1962 than it was in 2020.

#3

The passengers on Tiger 923 included Army private first class Fred Little Animal Gazelle, 22, of Pasadena. He had made it across 18 years earlier on a different plane. Now he was just trying to get comfortable in his seat.

#4

The author's father wanted to travel on a charter plane to Germany with his wife, Edna, to visit their son who was in college. The author's father was a low priority traveler, so it was rare for two seats to open up on a charter.

#5

The flight crew was made up of several young paratroopers who had just finished training. Captain Murray was more than twice as old as many of the paratroopers, and his eyeglasses made him look more college professor than elite warrior.

#6

Murray’s grit and improvisation served him well in the Army’s Air Transport Command during World War II, where he flew many snowy, grueling sorties to and from Canada, delivering the oil to the Lockheed bombers that younger Army Air Corps pilots flew out of Newfoundland.

#7

Murray was a tough customer, but he had a tender heart. He loved the fact that, unlike his attorney, doctor, and Wall Street friends and neighbors, he had no problems to take home.

#8

The Tiger flight was delayed because the ground crew hadn’t drained the sumps, the plane couldn’t leave until after a VIP had arrived, and the airport had only one runway long enough to