First Officer Claude Ouimet sent the NTSB a detailed defense of the crew's actions, including the decision to land in Cincinnati instead of Standiford Field Airport in Louisville, Kentucky, the airport closest to where the crew first notified Air Traffic Control in Indianapolis, Indiana that they needed to make an emergency landing.

Under Andronikos the Byzantine Empire came closest to regaining a position of power in the Balkan Peninsula since the Fourth Crusade.

Not only does the ensuing crisis rank with the Berlin Blockade, the Suez Crisis and the Yom Kippur War as one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, it is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict, or possibly World War III, where it is estimated that 100 million Americans and over 100 million Russians would have perished.

Among these was the devout Catholic Antonín Dvořák, the closest Brahms ever came to having a protégé.

Egyptologist Jan Assmann concludes that Strabo was the historian " who came closest to a construction of Moses ' religion as monotheism and as a pronounced counter-religion.

The possibility of a minority SPD-Green government tolerated by the Left Party was the closest the Left Party came to potential participation in government at this election.

It turned out, for certain temperaments, a seductive book .” For biographer David King Dunaway, The Doors of Perception, along with The Art of Seeing, can be seen as the closest Huxley ever came to autobiographical writing.

The closest she came to marriage was between 1579 and 1581, when she was courted by Francis, Duke of Anjou, the son of Henry II of France and Catherine de ' Medici.

No Vice President has ever been impeached, least of all convicted ; in 1973, Spiro Agnew came the closest.

The closest she ever came to preserving her stage performances were her famous television appearances as Peter Pan.

The Oriental Orthodox Churches fully adopt this position ; among Radical Reformation groups, the early Anabaptists came close, and modern Anabaptist groups such as the Mennonites and Hutterites come closest.

Ironically in view of Byrd's own religious beliefs, it was his Anglican church music which came closest to establishing a continuous tradition, at least in the sense that some of it continued to be performed in choral foundations after the Restoration and into the eighteenth century.

Bentham claimed to have borrowed this concept from the writings of Joseph Priestley, although the closest that Priestley in fact came to expressing it was in the form " the good and happiness of the members, that is the majority of the members of any state, is the great standard by which every thing relating to that state must finally be determined ".

This show was the closest Novello came to fulfilling his mother's early ambitions for him to write operas ; he played an Austrian composer-conductor at the Wiener Hofoper.

It was also during this time that Proudhon formed one of his closest friendships, with Gustave Fallot, a scholar from Montebéliard who came from a family of wealthy French industrialists.

Another wave of reforms came in 1988 with the arrival at the helm of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Vadim Bakatin, one of Mikahil Gorbachev ’ s closest allies.

That was the closest he came to winning another trophy with Chelsea until 1970, by which time Docherty had been succeeded by Dave Sexton.

The closest he came to matching it was with Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ) featuring future wife Jennifer Jones in the role of the primary character Pearl.

The closest he came to a major tactical decision was his fleeting intention to withdraw from the Henry Hill line when he briefly mistook advance of Johnston's reinforcements for the arrival of fresh Union troops.

Balakirev's sympathies and closest contacts were in the latter camp, and he frequently made derogatory comments about the German " routine " which, he believed, came at the expense of the composer's originality.

He came second to George Weah for the FIFA World Player of the Year Award in 1995, the closest a defender had ever reached to winning the award, until Fabio Cannavaro, a fellow Italian won the award in 2006.

Some historians maintain Ferdinand had also been touched by the reformed philosophies, and was probably the closest the Holy Roman Empire ever came to a Protestant emperor ; he remained nominally a Catholic throughout his life, although reportedly he refused last rites on his deathbed.

The closest the Treaty came to passage came in mid-November 1919, was when Lodge and his Republicans formed a coalition with the pro-Treaty Democrats, and were close to a two thirds majoriy for a Treaty with reservations, but Wilson rejected this compromise.

The amendment came closest to overcoming a discharge petition on January 10, 1938, when it was defeated in the House by a vote of 209 to 188, far short of the two-thirds vote required.

The most recent German Transrapid line project, and the one that came closest to being built, having previously been approved, was an airport connection track from Munich Railway Station to Munich Airport, which was eventually cancelled in early 2008 due to dramatically increasing cost projections.

The scoring team receives one point for each of their balls that is closer to the jack than the closest ball of the other team.

The Chargers 18-point halftime deficit ended up being the closest scoring margin they would reach for the rest of the game.

New media still subscribe to these basic sorting methods: e. g. a Google search returns a list of web pages in a hierarchical list based on its own scoring system for how closely they match the search criteria ( from closest match downwards ).

However, the scoring title eluded Richard, and the closest that he got to it was in 1954.

In NBA rules, the goal is credited to the player on the scoring team who is closest to defensive shooter and is mentioned in a footnote.

The closest Sweden came to scoring was through Fredrik Ljungberg but he hit the post with a well taken shot.

If interference is committed by the batter-runner before he reaches first base with the possible intent of preventing a double play, the runner closest to scoring is called out in addition to the batter-runner.

* 2003: Before a national television audience, Ricky Craven and Kurt Busch fought a memorable duel that came down to the final turn, when Craven edged out Busch by 0. 002 seconds ( about 1-2 inches ) in the joint closest finish in NASCAR history since NASCAR started using electronic transponders to determine scoring ( along with the Aaron's 499 at Talledega in Spring 2011 where Jimmie Johnson edged out Clint Bowyer at the flag ).

He won the race by only six one-thousandths of a second (. 006 ), proving to be one of the closest finishes in NASCAR history since the introduction of electronic scoring in 1993.

On Sunday, February 18, 2007 in the season-opening Daytona 500, Harvick claimed his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory in a restrictor plate race with a dramatic final lap pass over Mark Martin by. 020 seconds in a green-white-checkered finish, the closest margin at the 500 since electronic scoring started in 1993.

After the Cardinals scored their runs in the fourth inning, the rest of the game was an exercise in Tiger hitting futility as the closest they came to scoring occurred in the sixth inning.

Each side had plenty of scoring opportunities though, the closest of which came from the Sting ’ s Pato Margetic whose strike was saved by a fully extended Hubert Birkenmeier in the Cosmos goal, team mate Ingo Peter ’ s saw his header strike the crossbar and then the upright, and an overhead kick by Giorgio Chinaglia went just wide of the Sting goal.

By NBA rules, a shot into the own basket is credited with the scoring team's player closest to the basket.

One of the emperor's closest associates, he was active in Europe in the wars against the Bulgarians, scoring a major victory at Spercheios, and against the Arabs in Syria, where he held command during the first decade of the 11th century as Basil's virtual viceroy.

Each player tries to either land his puck closest to the end of the table, knock the opponent's pucks off the table, knock their own puck into a higher scoring area, or position a puck so that it will block their opponent from being able to hit another puck off the table.

And of course the news of who the composer was did finally begin to get around among his closest friends.

She was the sun, he the closest planet orbiting around her, the rest of the world existing and visible yet removed.

Palmer's 281 for the four rounds at Augusta was a comfortable four strokes ahead of the next closest pro, but it was barely good enough for a second-place tie with Coe.

a man who was most dangerous of all to those who were his closest collaborators in crime.

He was the foremost politician and churchfather of Denmark in the second half of the 12th century, and was the closest advisor of King Valdemar I of Denmark.

Capone was called " Snorky " by his closest friends.

* Protagonist Right ( Destra Protagonista ), headed by Maurizio Gasparri and Ignazio La Russa, was the bigger faction and the closest to Forza Italia, due to its liberal-conservative stances.

It was during this period that Victoria began to depend on her servant John Brown, a local ghillie from Crathie who became one of her closest companions during her long mourning.

In a 1958 letter to a friend in West Germany, Paternak wrote, " She was put in jail on my account, as the person considered by the secret police to be closest to me, and they hoped that by means of a grueling interrogation and threats they could extract enough evidence from her to put me on trial.

The closest rival to Angkor, the Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala, was between in total size.

Libya was previously one of the former president Patassé's closest allies, providing him with strong military support when he no longer trusted his own military or France.

The 2006 national election was expected to be a landslide for former President ( 1986 – 1990 ) and PLN's candidate Óscar Arias, but it turned out to be the closest in modern history.

A paper published in the Journal of Democracy states this was the closest that the Cuban opposition could come to asserting itself decisively.

The microfibrillar structure of adult tendon, as described by Fraser, Miller, and Wess ( amongst others ), was modeled as being closest to the observed structure, although it oversimplified the topological progression of neighboring collagen molecules, and hence did not predict the correct conformation of the discontinuous D-periodic pentameric arrangement termed simply: the microfibril.

Of all of Gauss's children, Wilhelmina was said to have come closest to his talent, but she died young.

He was the best drummer I had ever played with and for many years, my closest friend.

The closest school was about two miles ( 3 km ) away and Barks had to walk that distance every day.

Third, the closest high school to their farm was five miles ( 8 km ) away and even if he did enlist in it, his bad hearing was likely to contribute to his learning problems.

Lyell was also a friend of Darwin's closest colleagues, Hooker and Huxley, but unlike them he struggled to square his religious beliefs with evolution.

During his recovery from a heart attack late in 1955, he huddled with his closest advisors to evaluate the GOP's potential candidates ; the group, in addition to his doctor, concluded a second term was well advised, and he announced in February 1956 he would run again.

Diderot, who had been under police surveillance since 1747, was swiftly identified as the author ... and was imprisoned for some months at Vincennes, where he was visited almost daily by Rousseau, at the time his closest and most assiduous ally.