CHAPTER 22BETRAYAL
Hangar Five seethed with excitement and bustling activity all that February morning, even before the big Stratoliner had taken off on its first commercial flight to New York.
There had been the delay in the beginning of the flight. Then Mary Ann Huston, the chief hostess, had been unable to locate Inez Hunt when she didn’t report for her scheduled trip on the regular Douglas DC-3. After three unanswered telephone calls to the apartment on Cedar Street, she had hastily summoned one of the relief hostesses, and checked the plane herself before the departure.
Flight Eighteen had been away twenty minutes when the first hint of trouble aboard the Stratoliner was flashed to Flight Operations from the Cleveland Terminal.
“UNABLE TO CONTACT SKYLINES’ STRATOLINER TO NEW YORK”
