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COLONIAL AIRLINES, INC.
N.Y. MUNICIPAL AIRPORT [dot] LA GUARDIA FIELD, N.Y.

October 31, 1945

Mr. M. Pickett, Chief Dispatcher   
Captain M. Gitt
Emergency on Flite 12 of October 24th, 1945

Trip 12 of the 24th of October was set up and departed as a routine operation. The weather, the airplane and all of the factors involved for a safe operation were carefully perused in the regular manner.

This flite landed at Burlington, as called for in the published schedule. A further check of the weather showed that it was necessary to re-clear the flite and change the alternatives from OW to JG. This was done. The Montreal weather at this time was:

UL 35 overcast lower broken 3 mi. lite rain temp. 38 dew pt. 31 wind NE 10 alt. 30.00 remarks: occl lite snow mixed.

JG indef. 15 overcast lower broken 10 mi. lite rain showers temp. 40 dew pt. 39 wind SSW 5 alt. 29.98.

This flite then departed from Burlington and proceeded to Montreal. In approximately 30 minutes, Montreal put out the following "Special":

UL SPL 2310 1300 overcast 1 mi. lite rain lite snow wind NNE 11

The next regular sequence at 2330 was then given as:

UL 400 variable overcast lower broken 1 mi. lite snow temp. 35 dew pt. 34 wind NNE 10 cig ragged occal rain lite rain mixed.

Upon receipt of the last sequence I realiezed [[realized]] that something was rapidly happening to the weather situation that was not expected. Also at this time I was given some expected R.C.A.F. traffic which now put me in a #2 position to approach. I then proceeded to ask for Quebec City weather, which was given as:

2330 QB wex hi brkn 30 mi. temp. 34 dew pt. 26 wind ENE 28 plus alt. 30.11.

The situation now began to look a little better. I also asked for a forecast for Quebec City and what little of it (because of poor radio reception) that I got, it seemed all right. However, after assembling all the weather information I decided that all the weather forecasts were no longer reliable, the weather was fast developing into one of those situations that sometimes develops along the St. Lawrence, where the whole air mass becomes a precipitation area and the weather no longer proceeds as a frontal