* 1977 – A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.

Approximately thirty minutes into the flight, the hijackers forcibly breached the cockpit and overpowered the pilot and first officer, allowing lead hijacker and trained pilot Marwan al-Shehhi to take over the controls.

The next year, Hanks landed a lead role on the ABC television pilot of Bosom Buddies, playing the role of Kip Wilson.

Evidence from previous studies ( Gombos et al., ; Vaidya et al., ) and from our pilot experiments indicates that treating rats either with five to ten widely spaced ECS ( at 24-or 48-hr schedules ) or with two stimulations only 2 hr apart does not lead to loss of hippocampal neurons ".

Antilles, also called the " greatest ace " pilot in the Rebel Alliance, also appears in the Star Wars Expanded Universe and is the lead character in most of the X-wing novels.

After working on The Italian Job with Noël Coward, and a solid role as RAF fighter pilot Squadron Leader Canfield in the all-star cast of Battle of Britain ( both 1969 ), Caine played the lead in Get Carter ( 1971 ), a British gangster film.

In November 2010, Louis-Dreyfus was cast in the lead role of U. S. Vice President Selina Meyer in a new HBO comedy pilot entitled Veep.

At the end of 1980, Cartwright signed with a talent agency and landed a lead role in a pilot for a sitcom called In Trouble.

* Edward L. Feightner-a United States Navy World War II flying ace, test pilot, and Blue Angels lead solo

He is the lead pilot plant tech in the Tidewood facility of Silberline Manufacturing.

In the end, the primary roles were all recast, with Arness taking the lead role of Marshal Matt Dillon ( on the recommendation of Wayne, who also introduced the pilot ); Dennis Weaver playing Chester Goode ; Milburn Stone being cast as Dr. G. " Doc " Adams ( later Galen " Doc " Adams ); and Amanda Blake taking on the role of Miss Kitty Russell.

When the show premiered, Seaborn was considered the lead, and the pilot centered on the character.

He and Counter Intelligence Corps ( CIC ) special agent Hans Wintzen only had one solid lead: Raymond Kurtz, a B-17 pilot shot down by the Germans, recalled that a woman who had visited his prison camp seeking interviews was the broadcaster who called herself " Midge at the mike.

By playing alongside premier talent at the collegiate level, Charles had shown that she was ready to pilot an offense and lead this franchise into the post-Sales era.

She is the lead role in the Lifetime Television pilot written by Michael Sardo called Normal.

The place was a natural harbor, and Afonso Lopes ( pilot of the lead ship ) brought two natives aboard to confer with Cabral.

Paul Bruce Dickinson ( born 7 August 1958 ) is an English singer, songwriter, airline pilot, fencer, broadcaster, author, screenwriter, actor and former marketing director, best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden.

A pilot for a remake of the series was written and produced for NBC by David Shore in 2010, with Dermot Mulroney playing the title character, but was not picked up by the network due to complaints that it was not written well and the lead was miscast.

In February 2010, Cook signed on as the female lead in Fox TV's comedy pilot Nirvana.

If the aircraft exceeds published limitations regarding spins, or is loaded improperly, or if the pilot uses incorrect technique to recover, the spin can lead to a crash.

While the pilot did not lead to a series on the BBC, the concepts introduced in A Girl's Best Friend were retained by later Doctor Who writers.

Qualitative research is often also used as a pilot study in order to gather information that may later lead to a quantitative study.

Prior to the ejections, a US electronic surveillance plane monitoring the event recorded the lead Libyan pilot report to his ground controller that he had fired a missile at one of the US fighters and gave no indication that the missile shot was unintended.

The Newton formula can lead one to believe that flight is more difficult than it actually is, due to this overprediction of drag and thus required thrust, and it may have contributed to a delay in human flight.

However, United maintained their aggregate lead to reach the last four and were in jubilant mood as they left to catch their flight home, thinking of an important League game against Wolves at the weekend.

Both parents will lead the young birds to food and care for them for 14 – 16 days until their first flight.

Doors which lead from interior, pressurized, sections of an aircraft to exterior or unpressurized areas can pose extreme risk if they are inadvertently opened during flight.

After factoring wingspan, body weight, and aerodynamics, a sophisticated computer program lead the two researchers to conclude that Q. northropi was capable of flight " up to 80 miles an hour for 7 to 10 days at altitudes of 15, 000 feet ".

Ancient authors seemed to believe, incorrectly, that sling-bullets could penetrate armour, and that lead projectiles, heated by their passage through the air, would melt in flight.

The low velocity produced extended flight times, and made it difficult to lead moving targets.

Another 3 miles ( 5 km ) lead to the Knowle flight of five locks.

The leader for this sort of group is one who can mobilize the group for attack, or lead it in flight.

His dogfighting prowess is shown again in this battle, as Wedge personally shoots down a number of Imperial TIE Fighters, and appears to easily navigate the narrow and treacherous flight spaces inside the Death Star that lead to its core.

One of the function he performed was to lead the deduction of colonies ( made up of younger generation folk ) with his flight, which traditionally took place in spring and was performed according to a religious ritual known as ver sacrum.

The club became first widely known in Spain in 1995 – 96, while still playing at the third level, for its extraordinary run in the Spanish Cup, eliminating three top flight clubs ( Real Sociedad, Racing de Santander and Sporting de Gijón ) and only being knocked out in the quarter-finals by FC Barcelona, after taking the lead.

They would lead the team that built the Aggregate-4 ( A-4 ) rocket, which became the first vehicle to reach outer space during its test flight program in 1942 and 1943.

Finally, a flight of steps was to lead up to the enclosed piazza from below, further accentuating the central axis.

At short range, the apparent target area is relatively large, the trajectory is flat and the time of flight is short, allowing to correct lead by watching the tracers.

In one of his first games in the top flight, against Queen's Park Rangers at Loftus Road on 22 September 1984, Waddle scored a first half hat-trick for Newcastle, who had a 4-0 lead at half time.

Prior to each flight, flight attendants attend a safety briefing with the pilots and lead flight attendant.

Based on research done in the 1950s by the U. S. Air Force, in which it was discovered that bullets are more stable in flight for longer distances and more resistant to crosswinds if the center of gravity is somewhat to the rear of the center of pressure, the MatchKing bullet ( which is still in wide use and holds many records ) is a hollow point design with a tiny aperture in the jacket at the point of the bullet and a hollow air space under the point of the bullet, where previous conventional bullets had had a lead core that went all the way up to the point.

If the snipe flies, hunters have difficulty estimating a correct aiming lead for the bird's erratic flight pattern.

Schmidt ( whose flight name was " Psycho "), and his flight lead, Major William Umbach, were returning from a 10-hour patrol.