Category: Industrial Era

• The Airmail Murder Plot

  The Airmail Murder Plot alleges that dangerous pilots, especially those considered unreliable, costly, or expendable, were deliberately assigned sabotaged or explosive mail loads so their deaths could be written off as another crash in the hazardous early era of air mail. The theory developed in the context of a real and unusually deadly system in which weather, limited instruments, weak aircraft, and institutional pressure regularly killed pilots.