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 Testimony by PCA personnel indicated that the station policy at Pittsburgh had been to retain copies of the flight plan and flight release only until midnight of the day in which the flight originated which was contrary to the Civil Air Regulations. The flight release duplicate of trip 142 was discarded after the flight, and inasmuch as the original was destroyed in the crash, no record was available for investigation other than the Washington dispatcher's authorization for the flight. The record indicates that Jones had held the status of Captain with the company since November 1942 and that while he had only recently been assigned to the Pittsburgh-Birmingham route, of which Pittsburgh-Morgantown is one section, he had, nevertheless, qualified in accordance with the route competency provisions of the Civil Air Regulations and had flown some regular trips as Captain. unreadable had served on this route as First officer for approximately 11 months.