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wake of the crash, the CAB rejected the merger, upon which TAG stopped operating on August 7. The response of the CAB was to direct TAG to resume operations within 90 days. When TAG was unable to do so, due to lack of funds, the CAB revoked its certificate. TAG did not fly again and in
February 1972, Wright was awarded a certificate from the CAB to fly the route that TAG had been awarded in 1969.
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killing all nine people aboard the Dove. The cause of the crash was found to be a fatigue crack in a fitting in the wing root resulting in failure of the right wing. Wright agreed to buy TAG for $ 3mm (about $ 20mm in 2024 dollars) in March. In July, not withstanding TAG's dire financial shape in the
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TAG's slogan was "The World's
Busiest Airline". TAG was best known for its high frequency service from Burke Lakefront airport in Cleveland and Detroit City Airport. An October 1969 schedule showed 22 weekday flights per day each way, six on Saturday and ten on Sunday. The volume of passengers flown
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Cleveland to Toledo. TAG was then sold to Ross Miller in 1957 who shifted the flying to land-based aircraft. On 17 June 1958, TAG merged into Miller Oil, the oil company owned by Ross Miller and his wife. TAG thereafter operated as a division of Miller Oil until 1968 when it was spun off into a
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aircraft if it was awarded certification instead. The CAB preferred the idea of F27s. At the time, TAG's fleet comprised six Doves and four Aztecs.
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Unfortunately, on 28 January 1970, TAG flight 730 from
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separate company, still controlled by Ross Miller, incorporated in
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between these airports challenged the total passengers flown by
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was a small airline primarily serving the route from
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Wright Air Lines
Announces $ 3 Million Deal for Tag
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16:Flew between Detroit & Cleveland (1957–1970)
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528:"Record DCA70AZ006 in NTSB accident data base"
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668:TAG Airlines Suspends Flights From Cincinnati
432:"TAG Airlines, Cleveland-Detroit Certificate"
327:List of defunct airlines of the United States
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534:. National Transportation Safety Board
488:"October 26, 1969 TAG timetable, pg 2"
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218:jets. In this, TAG was challenged by
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684:, Pittsburgh Press, December 7, 1965
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578:: 929–932. September–December 1970.
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682:Air Taxi to Cleveland Service Set
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598:"Reopened TAG-Wright Case"
494:. Airline Timetable Images
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