" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

Because air pressure decreases at high altitudes, air compression is necessary in order to keep the airplane ’ s engine running at maximum efficiency.

Because it is the horizon that moves up and down and turns, while the symbolic aircraft is fixed relative to the rest of the instrument panel, trainees get confused ; a standard corrective given by flight instructors is " Fly the little airplane, not the horizon.

Because all transportation was cut off between the two cities ( and for many miles, the two states ), East Grand Forks residents were evacuated to nearby Crookston, namely to the University of Minnesota Crookston, while residents of Grand Forks, who were given mandatory evacuation orders on April 18, went to Grand Forks Air Force Base ( residents stayed in airplane hangars containing more than 3, 000 cots ).

Because his 400-square mile parish is so large, he uses a Piper Cub airplane ( named the " Spirit of St. Joseph ") to travel from one isolated settlement to another.

Because there was no built-in starter, Pangborn dove the airplane from cruise altitude and pulled out at 1400 feet to get the engine started.

Because of his small stature, George has had to invent his own adaptive devicees, most notably the Zooper car ( a small vehicle which George built with his father, and which can be automatically transformed into an airplane, a helicopter, or a submarine ).

Because the altitude of the tropopause is not constant, an airplane that flies at a constant altitude would traverse it and encounter any associated CAT.

Because skydiving played a part in the airplane hijacking, Pete finds his way to Jessie Crossman ( Yancy Butler ), a world-class skydiver and ex-con, whose ex-husband Jagger, unknown to all, is part of Ty's crew.

Because of the absence of scheduled sea transport between the islands, nearly all interisland passenger traffic is by air.

Because of inclement weather conditions during the scheduled 2012 race, the Daytona 500 was rescheduled to Monday night, February 27, 2012.

Because VLIWs typically represent instructions scheduled in parallel with a longer instruction word that incorporates the individual instructions, this results in a much longer opcode ( thus the term " very long ") to specify what executes on a given cycle.

Because the show had many young viewers and was scheduled after football games ( which tended to run overtime ), six fifteen-minute episodes were produced.

Because of the station's archive nature the station was scheduled, produced and researched by a team of 17 people, excluding presenters.

Because of these changes 90 % of the timetable was changed, 12 % more trains were scheduled and travel times generally improved.

Because none of the major North American professional leagues have games scheduled for that day the National Basketball Association, National Football League, and National Hockey League are not in-season, and MLB does not have games that day major sports figures are available to attend.

Because of its combination of decades long scheduled service and length of time spent at supersonic speeds, the main user of supercruise was Concorde, with more time spent in supersonic, largely supercruise, flight than all of the other aircraft put together.

Because the United States had hosted the 1999 World Cup, it was thought the United States could best organize the tournament in the little time remaining before the October scheduled start.

Because Reilly was such a lively and reliable talk-show guest and lived within blocks of the Burbank studios where The Tonight Show was taped, he was often asked to be a last-minute replacement for scheduled guests who did not make it to the studio in time.

Because of the relegation Boston were originally scheduled to play the 2007 – 08 season in the Conference National but this position was immediately placed in doubt after the club's chairman Jim Rodwell entered Boston into a Company Voluntary Arrangement late in their last game so that 10 points would then be deducted in the 2006 – 07 season instead of the 2007 – 08 season.

Because traditional demolition would result in an unacceptable environmental impact, the building was scheduled for deconstruction and decontamination as part of the Lower Manhattan redevelopment project.

Because the Soviets are flouting diplomatic immunity, Inspector Clouseau is assigned to recover it in a clandestine, non-cover operation, which annoys him as he was scheduled to go on an ocean cruise to Ireland with his daughter, Agatha, to see the first performance of Riverdance.

Because of this public response / demand a second ride was scheduled for August 4 – 10 ( 1974 ), before the Iowa State Fair.

Because NASCAR scheduled the first race at the track to immediately follow the Daytona 500 on the schedule, teams were forced to travel across the continent for the second week, hurting them financially and eventually leading to the discontinuation of the truck race there in 2010.

Because of this delay, Operation Wilfred, originally scheduled for 5 April, was delayed until 8 April when the British agreed to perform the Norwegian operations separately from those on the continent.

Because of this, a VADM tranche will receive the scheduled prepayments even if no prepayments are made on the underlying.

Because less than seventy-five percent of the scheduled race distance had been completed, only half the normal World Championship points were awarded.

Because the vacancy had occurred so soon before a scheduled general election, a special election to fill the vacancy would not be held for over two years.

Because of this, Maxim's management, thinking that Sheppard would be an easy opponent, scheduled a match between Sheppard and Maxim.

Because this game was scheduled at the last minute as a makeup due to the Game 2 tie, as well as the game-fixing rumors and the boycott by the Royal Rooters, the riveting finale of the 1912 World Series was played to a half-capacity crowd at Fenway.

Because principal repayment is not scheduled, credit card debt does not have an actual maturity date and is considered a nonamortizing loan.

* Because the league does not generally schedule simultaneous games for the Giants and Jets, the only way 3 Sunday afternoon games can be shown in the New York primary media market is if one team has a primetime game or bye while the other team plays its game on the network that has the scheduled doubleheader, or if the teams play head-to-head either on the network with the scheduled doubleheader or in primetime.

Because fly ash addition allows a lower concrete water content, early strength can also be maintained.

Because feather shuttles fly more quickly off the racquet face they also tend to cause less shoulder impact and injury.

Because an idle floating duck or a duck squatting on land cannot react to fly or move quickly, " a sitting duck " has come to mean " an easy target ".

Because the fruit fly, as well as other species, use the number of Xs to determine sex, they are nonviable with an extra X. SRY-reliant species can have conditions such as XXY and still live.

Because no species of fly has teeth or any other organ or limb that allows them to eat solid foods, flies consume only liquid food or finely granular foods, such as pollen, and their mouthparts and digestive tracts show various modifications for such diets.

Because there are greedy winged creatures ready to fly in and suck the blood from sleeping infants so young they still take only breast milk.

Costello: Another guy gets up and it's a long fly ball to Because.

Because of an ice storm in the Nashville area, Williams could not fly, so he hired a college student, Charles Carr, to drive him to the concerts.

Because of the way they work, the typical exhaust speed of jet engines is transonic or faster, therefore most jet aircraft need to fly at high speeds, either supersonic or speeds just below the speed of sound (" transonic ") so as to achieve efficient flight.

Because both the rod and the fly line are tapered the smaller amount of mass will reach high speeds as the waves in rod and line unfurl.

Because the roof is very nearly the same color as a baseball, and transmits light, the Metrodome had a far higher error incidence than a normal stadium during day games, so instead of losing a fly ball in the sun, as is common for non-roofed stadiums, fly balls could easily get lost in the ceiling.

Because of its short lifespan, the mayfly is called one-day or one-day fly in some languages — German, Dutch, Slovenian, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, Polish, Finnish, Turkish, Russian, Bulgarian, and Greek.

Because these small owls lack the ability to fly silently, they are mostly diurnal.

Because it was one of the first airlines to fly internationally from historical region Transylvania, it has been very successful in that it has not received much competition from other airlines.

Because aircraft were not allowed to fly across the border casualties had to be evacuated by foot until they were back across the border, except in the most extreme cases with personal authorisation by DOBOPS.

Because La Paz is located at a high altitude, it can be difficult to reach by car from other Bolivian cities, and many travelers choose to fly from Viru Viru instead.

* Because they were intended to fly too high or too fast for safe use of conventional ejection seats, the B-58 Hustler, XB-70 Valkyrie, General Dynamics F-111 and B-1A Lancer all used enclosed escape crew capsules of some kind.

Because its aircraft tend to be spread out over large geographic distances and most Ghost Squadron aircraft rarely fly more than a few hours from their home base, AIRSHO is an opportunity to bring everyone back together again.

Because gates sometimes require the bats to fly slower, as well as providing hunting perches to predators within reach of emerging bats, natural predation may be increased by cave gating .< ref > White, D. H. & J. T. Seginak.

Because they can fly with relative ease, they consider the " grounded " races to be inferior.

Because of their heavy weight, they don't fly much.

Some species can even leave the water for short stretches " Because of this ability to fly and tendency to jump, aquariums used to house hatchetfish should have a cover which is tightly sealed to prevent these fish from escaping.

Because the record flight of 29 August 2006 proved Enevoldson's thesis, Steve Fossett agreed to fund, progressively, the next phase of the project: to build a pressurized cabin for a special sailplane to fly to 90, 000 feet.