This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19 aircrews as alien abductees.

* Flight data recorder, a type of flight recorder used to record aircraft and pilot behavior to analyze accidents ( commonly called " black boxes ")

Flight 77 hijackers Salem al-Hazmi and Majed Moqed, and United Airlines Flight 93 hijacker Ziad Jarrah used the same addresses obtained from the Salvadorans to obtain Virginia driver's licenses.

1-2-3 was used to test general application compatibility, with Microsoft Flight Simulator being used to test graphics compatibility.

Renee May, a flight attendant on Flight 77, used a cell phone to call her mother in Las Vegas.

He wrote a description on 17 December 1943, with the title " Arrangement of Displacement Bodies in High-Speed Flight "; this was used in a patent filed in 1944.

Flight Simulation Training Devices ( FSTD ) are used to train pilots on the ground.

Even today, when flying an aircraft under Visual Flight Rules, a technique called attitude flying is used to control the aircraft, where the pilot uses the visual relationship between the aircraft's nose and the horizon to control the aircraft.

Pressure altitude divided by 100 feet ( 30m ) as the flight level, and is used above the transition altitude ( in the US, but may be as low as in other jurisdictions ); so when the altimeter reads 18, 000 ft on the standard pressure setting the aircraft is said to be at " Flight level 180 ".

* " Aunt Agatha's flying helmet " is used as a raffle box for competition entries in the ' Straight and Level ' humour page in Flight International, a British aviation-related trade journal.

Flight simulation is used for a variety of reasons, including flight training ( mainly of pilots ), the design and development of the aircraft itself, and research into aircraft characteristics and control handling qualities.

Flight simulation is used extensively in the aviation industry to train pilots and other flight crew for both civil and military aircraft.

Finally, for more advanced aircraft-specific training, Full Flight Simulators ( FFS ) are used, particularly as part of the training for the Commercial Air Transport ( CAT ) aircraft that the pilot will eventually fly.

Flight simulator motion platforms used to use hydraulic jacks, but electric and electric-pneumatic jacks are now common.

Level D flight simulators are used at training centers such as those provided by Airbus, FlightSafety International, CAE, Boeing Training and Flight Services ( ex-Alteon ) and at the training centers of large airlines.

In order for a Flight Simulation Training Device ( FSTD ) to be used for flight crew training or checking, it must be evaluated by the local National Aviation Authority ( NAA ), such as the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) in the United States.

For some experienced pilots, Level D FFS may be used for Zero Flight Time ( ZFT ) conversions from one type of aircraft to another.

Network Flight Recorder ( NFR ) in 1999 also used libpcap.

In 1996 before the base could be turned over the Town of Riverhead, the base was used to reassemble the wreckage of TWA Flight 800 which had crashed about south.

In 1972 stun grenades were used to capture the hijacked Sabena Flight 571, allowing the Israeli forces headed by Ehud Barak and including Benjamin Netanyahu to storm the plane and take it over within 10 minutes while capturing two terrorists and killing Ali Taha, the leader of the terrorist group and his aide, while rescuing all passengers ( three were wounded, and one died of her injuries several days later ).

Flight number 1 is often used for an airline's " flagship " service.

Flight numbers starting with 8 are often used for charter flights, but it always depends on the commercial carrier choice.

Flight numbers are also sometimes used for spacecraft, though a flight number for an expendable rocket ( say, Ariane 5 Flight 501 ) might more reasonably be called the serial number of the vehicle used, since an expendable rocket can only be launched once.

* 1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground.

* 1969 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.

Retrieved 19 July 2006 .</ ref > In 1999, six other Libyans who had been accused of the September 1989 bombing of Union Air Transport Flight 772 were put on trial in their absence by a Paris court.

Flight can be roughly classified in six categories:

Talisman: The Magical Quest Game is a fantasy themed adventure board game for two to six players, originally designed and produced by Games Workshop and now published by Fantasy Flight Games.

Also on board were three of the six flight attendants who were on Flight 143.

8: 20: American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 with 58 passengers and six crew members, departs from Washington Dulles International Airport in Fairfax and Loudoun Counties, Virginia, for Los Angeles.

Flight attendants are normally trained in the hub or headquarters city of an airline over a period that may run from four weeks to six months, depending on the country and airline.

Clark underwent six months of aeromedical training at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute in Pensacola, Florida, and was designated as a Naval Flight Surgeon.

Flight times were as short as six minutes, depending on direction of departure.

Along with unit personnel the six Air National Guard and six Air Force Reserve A-10s returned to their home stations in mid-January 1994 after flying 520 sorties and accumulating over 1, 400 hours of Deny Flight flying time.

Air National Guard tanker support of Deny Flight began in June 1994 with the dispatch of 10 KC-135s and 18 aircrews from six units to Istres Air Base, France, and Pisa Airport, Italy.

* July 9 – The Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-235 Clipper Defiance, operating as Flight 759, crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, immediately after takeoff from New Orleans International Airport, destroying six and severely damaging five houses.

* June 26-The first crash of an Airbus A320 occurs when Air France Flight 296, an Airbus A320-111 carrying 130 passengers and a crew of six, makes a low-altitude, low-speed flyby with landing gear down as part of an air show at Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport in France, strikes trees beyond the runway, and crashes.

* December 26 – United Express Flight 2415, a BAe Jetstream 31 operated by North Pacific Airlines, crashes on approach to Tri-Cities Airport at Pasco, Washington, in the United States, killing all six people on board.

Although it is commonly believed that Flight Data Recorders and Cockpit Voice Recorders are required on all US aircraft, in fact, they are only required on US aircraft that have 20 or more passenger seats or those that have six or more passenger seats, are turbo-charged, and require two pilots.

John Mosey, a priest who lost a daughter on Pan Am Flight 103, expressed his disappointment that halting Megrahi ’ s appeal before it went to court meant that the public would never hear " this important evidence — the six separate grounds for appeal that the SCCRC felt were important enough to put forward, that could show that there ’ s been a miscarriage of justice.

Forty six minutes later, at its cruising altitude of, an explosion caused UTA Flight 772 to break up over the Sahara Desert near the towns of Bilma and Ténéré in Niger.

In 1999, the six Libyans were put on trial in the Paris Assize Court for the bombing of UTA Flight 772.

On 19 September 2006, the court was asked to rule that the Libyan government and six of its agents were guilty of the 19 September 1989 destruction of UTA Flight 772.

Colonel Casper has been awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, two Legion of Merit Awards, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, 11 Air Medals, two Defense Meritorious Service Medals, six Air Force Commendation Medals, the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, two NASA Distinguished Service Medals, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, four NASA Space Flight Medals, and the National Intelligence Achievement Medal.

Flight over Khumbu-region ; six eight-thousanders and some seven-thousanders ( three identified ) are visible

Duties ended 30th September 1994 when the Flight was replaced by a flight from the Argentine Air Force, ending thirty years, six months and four days of service under the UN flag.

After graduation, he trained as a commercial pilot, but could not find work, and instead spent six years working under Walter Georgii at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug ( DFS-German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight ).