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 repeated. The Cincinnati company radio operator repeated, "Surface wind, south 10 miles per hour, Cincinnati altimeter 29.63, pressure altitude 760 feet." At 8:23 p.m., Trip 20 tried again to contact the Cincinnati company operator, but the attempt was unsuccessful due to rain static. After calling several more times, contact was made with the company radio operator at Chicago, and instructions were received from him to shift his transmitter to 3105 kilocycles and to contact the Cincinnati airport control tower for landing instructions.

Trip 20 then contacted the airport and was advised that the wind was south 10 miles per hour and that he was to land on runway No. 6, which extends in a north-south direction. This report made no mention of squalls or gusty conditions in the vicinity of the Cincinnati Airport. As the flight descended, it broke out of the overcast and established contact over Harrison, Ohio (approximately 24 miles northwest of Cincinnati), at 3,000 feet above sea level, where turbulent air was encountered. Descent was continued along the last leg of the Cincinnati radio range; and when the lights of the city became visible, Captain Bryant altered his course to approach the airport along the Ohio River channel.

The Cincinnati Airport is located five miles east of the center of the City of Cincinnati at the juncture of the Little Miami and Ohio Rivers. The airport is bordered in its entire east side by a levee along the Little Miami River. There are three paved