New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1926-11-29
AVIATION Offers
BUT few HAZARDS
Surrey Shows It Little More
Dangerous Than AutOinS

Hartford, Conn, Nov. 70 W.
Hazards of regularly established and
licensed commercial aviation art
little greater than those which be.
set pedestrians or the occupants oil
automobiles. actuarial surveys made
by the Travellers Insurance Company
have demonstrated.
( In making this announcement to-
day, Vice-President B. A. Page also
made public the decision to liber-
alize the flying prohibition upon
holders of all but a few of the COM
pany's restricted class accident poll
cies.
Effective December !, the basic
insurance will be paid, without adj
ditional premium costs. on approx
imately so per cent of the company's
accident policies for any loss caused
by any hazard of aviation while the
insured is riding as a passenger in
a licensed airplane or dirigible OPP
Grated by licensed pilot upon a
regular route between definitely es-
tablished airports.
Heretofore accident policies have
exempted payment for injuries suf-
fered in the air unless a high addi-
tional premium charge had been as
sessed previously to cover aviation
hazards.
The liberalization Mr.. Page said,
was the result of a conviction on
commercial aviation is no longer an
experiment, but that lit is here to
stay, has a great future and we want
to do our bit to help it grow"
| The recent successful trans-con-
tinental tour of the Ford polar
plane of Commander Richard E.
Byrd, U. S. N, was cited as an ex-
ample of the potentiality of COM
mercial flying, this plane having
completed a flight of approximately
six thousand miles without serious
mishap.
The actuarial surveys which re-
suited in today's decision. Mr.. Page
said, were instituted primarily be-
cause Of inquiries from policy hold.
and travel there on the regularly
established air lines. Some In
quiries also were received from per-
sons who desire to patronize licensed
] ;oJ al, t,, T,,st 4
States without prejudicing their in
demnity rights.
The liberalization, Mr.. Page
added was an outgrowth of the
travellers experience at the May,
1919 aviation meet at Atlantic City
under the auspices of the Aero
Club of America. when it was the
first American insurance organiza-
ton, SO far as Is known, to furnish
accident insurance to persons de-
string to make flights. Special
policies were made available at the
premium of IS and among the pur-
! Ghasers were the late President
j Woodrow Wilson. who had ticket
-1-A-1; Secretary of War Newton
d. Baker; Secretary Josephus Dan
ieis of the navy department; Rear
Admiral Robert r. Peary; United
States Senator Walter Edge OF New
Jersey, Richard Enright, forme,
police commissioner of New York
city; Rear Admiral Bradley Fiske
Orville Wright, Glenn Curtis; Joseph
| Pulitzer, Jr.: Herbert Pulitzer. Jr.;
James X. Hackett, Rodman Wanna
maker and Benedict Crowell, former
assistant secretary of war.
The extension announced today
does not cover injuries suffered ir
/ any military or naval plane OF
| dirigible. in any form of unlicensed
| aviation or while the insured il
1 acting as pilot or mechanic of 8
plane or lighter-than-air craft, but
/ the liberalization, Mr.. Page esti.
mated. would affect accident poll.