Horza soon resolves to take over the ship by replacing the Captain, Kraiklyn, who leads them on some disastrous pirate raids which kill several of the crew.

The crew lands on an abandoned Megaliner cruising the Vavatch ocean, hoping to salvage its powerful laser weapons before the Orbital is destroyed, but one of the crew is killed soon after landing because he missed the briefing warning them that their antigravity devices would not work there, and more die when the ship crashes into a massive ice wall, which Kraiklyn had mistaken for a cloud bank, although Horza later discovers that Kraiklyn and several others managed to escape.

Having now changed his appearance to mimic that of the CAT captain, Horza witnesses a game of " Damage ", which Kraiklyn has joined in the hopes of winning enough to make up the losses from his foolhardy expeditions with the crew.

Balveda, now exposed as a Culture agent, in turn exposes Horza ; seeing no reason to continue his deception, he instead recruits the remnants of the crew to carry out his mission.

They soon discover that the Mind is also being hunted by a pair of Idiran soldiers, survivors of a larger commando group, who have killed all the Changers stationed on the planet, and who regard Horza and his crew as enemies, having no knowledge of the Changers ' alliance with the Idirans.

Although the Mind has been rescued the cost has been terrible-all the crew of the Clear Air Turbulence have been killed, the drone is severely damaged, and the fatally wounded Horza dies just as Balveda gets him back to the surface.

Horza, however, was one of a group of Changers allowed to be on the planet as stewards and witnesses to its devastation.

As the book opens, Horza is about to die an extremely unpleasant death after killing and impersonating a member of the gerontocracy on a world not yet part of the Culture.

Horza escapes his impending sacrifice by killing the cult leader and his henchman with his poisoned fingernails and teeth, and eventually makes his way to the main city on Vavatch to find Kraiklyn.

Kraiklyn is wiped out of the game, and Horza then follows him on his way back to his ship, kills him and returns to the CAT.

Horza manages to lift off and takes the Clear Air Turbulence on a wild ride through the massive spaces of the ex-Culture GSV which is carrying out the evacuation, and they escape into space after shaking off their Culture pursuers, although a Culture drone, Unaha-Closp, is also trapped on the escaping ship and becomes a reluctant member of the team.

The Culture also realizes that Horza is the key to getting to Schar's World and retrieving the Mind.

The enraged Horza pursues Xoxarle, who catches Balveda and leaves her for dead, although she is saved by Horza.

As Horza, a mercenary for the Idirans observes: " the conflict was inevitable "; the Idirans would not halt their expansion, because their faith wouldn't allow it ; the Culture was so ill-defined, having no borders or laws, that it would also have grown ceaselessly.

In the opening chapter of the science fiction novel Consider Phlebas by Ian M. Banks the main character, a spy called Bora Horza Gobuchul, is being ritually executed by the ' Gerontocracy of Sorpen ' for impersonating one of their ministers.

Horza, a mercenary capable of altering his appearance at will ( a Changer ), is assigned the task of retrieving a dispossessed Culture Mind by his Idiran handlers.

It taught crew members to comply with the hijackers ' demands, get the plane to land safely and then let the security forces handle the situation.

However, there are still minimum weather conditions that must be present in order for the aircraft to take off and land ; these will vary according to the kind of operation, the type of navigation aids available, the location and height of terrain and obstructions in the vicinity of the airport, equipment on the aircraft, and the qualifications of the crew.

The results of the official investigation revealed that the cause of the plane accident was procedural mistakes by the crew, committed during the approach to land at Mostar airport.

* 1965 – PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 – 040 B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 119 of the 125 passengers and crew.

All others were free to land on giving the addresses of their destinations to be sent to the respective local authorities, so that the dispersed passengers and crew could be kept individually under observation for a few days.

Cochrane completes his warp flight, and the next day, April 5, 2063, the crew watches as Vulcans, attracted by the Phoenix warp test, land and greet Cochrane.

The crew managed to land in a rock, but Poseidon struck it, and Ajax fell in the sea and drowned.

He and his crew land and are met by Hathaway, now old and suffering from heart disease.

In the 1950s, David Attenborough and a BBC film crew brought back footage of the " land divers " ( Sa: ) of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu, young men who jumped from tall wooden platforms with vines tied to their ankles as a test of their courage and passage into manhood.

He took an enormous amount of booty, as well as landing his privateers ashore and attacking land fortifications, including the sack of the city of Panama with only 1, 400 crew.

Aeneas and his crew land on the island, when they are approached by a desperate Greek man from Ithaca, Achaemenides, who was stranded on the island a few years previously with Odysseus ' expedition ( as depicted in The Odyssey ).

On arrival, the sign of land to Kupe ’ s crew was the long cloud hanging over it.

" It was Hendrik Hudson and his crew aboard the Dutch vessel ' Half Moon " who, in 1609, first spotted land in what is now Monmouth County, most likely off Sandy Hook.

On 26 February 1918, Garlick and his crew and a group of muleskinners from nearby Colton, known to be experts in clearing land as well as for their colorful syntax, began the task of excavating the building foundations, and on 1 March 1918, Alessandro Flying Training Field was opened.

On September 8, 1994, USAir Flight 427 crashed in Hopewell Township, near the city of Aliquippa, as it was preparing to land at Pittsburgh International Airport, killing all 127 passengers and 5 crew members on board.

After Bjarni had made his official report in Norway, Leif Ericson ( Old Norse: Leifr Eiríksson, the son of Greenland leader Eric the Red ) bought the ship that Bjarni had used for the voyage, hired a crew of 35 people and set out to find the land.

Below the cockpit moved " terrain plates " – large, movable aerial photographs of the land below, which gave the crew the impression of flight and enabled the bomber to practise lining up bombing targets.

Leif approached Bjarni, purchased his ship, gathered a crew of thirty-five men, and mounted an expedition towards the land Bjarni had described.

It was also necessary for the machine to land without damage to craft or crew not more than from the starting point.

Magellan deployed 49 armored men, less than half his crew, with crossbows and guns, but could not anchor near land because the island is surrounded by shallow coral bottoms and thus unsuitable for the Spanish galleons to get close to shore.

While attempting to land at Lewiston-Auburn Regional Airport in Auburn, Maine, the Beechcraft 99 commuter plane struck some trees short of the runway and crashed, killing all six passengers and two crew on board.

The Airbus A330-200 with 146 other passengers and 11 crew members on board was forced to land at Málaga Airport, were the perpetrator was overpowered by Spanish police forces.

The surviving crew stripped out the remaining ship's guns and mounted them on trunnions, before joining the land forces, adding considerably to their effectiveness.

When the Golden Hind came within hailing distance, the crew heard him cry out repeatedly, " We are as near to Heaven by sea as by land!

He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.

On the third voyage, a near-mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew members on the Half Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in Mid-Atlantic.

On Sept. 6, the Kretchmer rescued the crew of a trawler they found drifting on a life raft after they had abandoned a sinking ship.

In August while stopping in Greenock, Scotland, three members of the crew on liberty rendered first aid to a girl who fell from a train.

This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the International Space Station | ISS.

Only 710 of 2, 227 passengers and crew on board survived.

After finishing its work on the first car, the engine installation crew can begin working on the second car.

While the engine installation crew works on the second car, the first car can be moved to the hood station and fitted with a hood, then to the wheels station and be fitted with wheels.

* 1942 – World War II: The two-person crew of the U. S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean.

* 1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.

* 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.

Lashing the Viking boats to their own, the English crew boarded the enemy's vessels and proceeded to kill everyone on board.

With a crew of international professional surfers, they crossed the Andaman Sea on the yacht Crescent and cleared formalities in Port Blair.

Stradling and half a dozen of the crew survived the loss of their ship, but were made prisoners by the Spanish, as the War of the Spanish Succession was going on ( England and the Netherlands were in conflict with France and Spain over who was to be King of Spain ).

In 1863, the crew of placed a bronze tablet on a spot called Selkirk's Lookout on a hill of the island in memory of his stay.

Ken Mattingly had originally been assigned to the prime crew of Apollo 13, but was exposed to the measles through Charles Duke, at that time on the back-up crew for Apollo 13, who had caught it from one of his children.

He served on the support crew of Apollo 10 and was a capsule communicator for Apollo 11.

Although not officially announced, the original backup crew consisted of Fred Haise ( CDR ), William R. Pogue ( CMP ) and Gerald Carr ( LMP ) who were targeted for the prime crew assignment on Apollo 19.

Subsequently, Roosa and Mitchell were recycled to serve as members of the backup crew after returning from Apollo 14, while Pogue and Carr were re-assigned to the Skylab program where they later flew on Skylab 4.

As the countdown began, the crew of Apollo 16 were participating in final training exercises in anticipation of a launch on 16 April.

Once on course towards the Moon, the crew put the spacecraft into a rotisserie " barbecue " mode in which the craft rotated along its long axis three times per hour to ensure even heat distribution about the spacecraft from the Sun.