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The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.
What that meant is that in the areas where the lands of Ludington and Wards met Ludington ’ s crew was cutting trees down on the wrong side of the property line.
After flight 107 from Buffalo lands safely with no crew or passengers on board, the FAA sends Grant Sheckly, an inspector with 22 years of experience and a flawless record of solving cases, to investigate the matter.
Sun Ra, who has been reported lost since his European tour in June 1969, lands on a new planet in outerspace with his crew " The Arkestra " and decides to settle African Americans on this planet.
The plane circles, then lands at Tbilisi in the Soviet Union, where on the next day the KGBs counterterrorist Spetsnaz Alpha Group storms it, killing three crew members, two passengers, and three hijackers.
Once the Earth Return Vehicle lands it is planned to use an onboard Sabatier reactor in order to create liquid oxygen and methane fuel for the return trip ; a second spacecraft, carrying the crew, would follow after.
The spacecraft eventually lands safely in the Hipparchus Crater, and by agreement among the crew, Tintin is the first to set foot on the Moon ( the first human to do so ).
L 55 sets an altitude record for airships of 24, 000 feet ( 7, 315 meters ) during her homebound flight before being damaged beyond repair in a hard landing in Germany ; L 44 is shot down in flames by French artillery over the Western Front with the loss of all hands ; L 49 lands in France and is captured along with her entire crew ; L 45 lands in France and is destroyed by her crew, who are captured ; and L 50 makes a hard landing in France, after which 15 of her crew manage to get off the airship and are captured and she drifts away and crosses France before disappearing over the Mediterranean Sea with four men still aboard.
After he fatally stabs the captain, he is overpowered by the crew and the co-pilot lands the plane safely at Haneda, Japan.
In this case, instead of bringing its crew back to Earth, the TARDIS lands in a petrified jungle, and the Doctor has to try to fix their position by taking a reading of the stars.
The TARDIS crew lands in the Himalayas of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are picked up by Marco Polo's caravan on its way along the fabled Silk Road to see the Emperor Kublai Khan.
David lands on the deck of the Eldridge where he finds the crew in agony, some fused into the ship's hull.
* A film crew lands on Eyjafjallajokull during the 2010 eruption
When the ship lands, the entire crew is however accounted for ; the incredulous doctor storms back into the ship to search it himself, only to be ambushed and killed by the remaining alien, who has taken on his own guise and who, emerging, heads into the surrounding city.
* 5 June – An South African Air Force Denel Oryx helicopter crash lands at Durban International Airport and the crew suffer only minor injuries
The TARDIS next lands on the set of a silent film, causing many problems for the film crew ( such as the Doctor being mistaken for a cultural advisor and the lead actress nearly quitting because she thinks the director wants to replace her with Sara ) before escaping.
Williams's crew lands the scout nearby, not knowing the Ogrons have set up an ambush.
The TARDIS crew is still missing Susan Foreman when the ship lands on a planet the Doctor eventually recognises as Dido, a world he has visited before.

crew and on
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.

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After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.
The Norwegian gunboat ran aground on one of the islands ' many uncharted lava reefs and the 68 man crew abandoned ship and joined the Norwegian team on shore.
As a result of the aerial attack, Hartenstein and, subsequently, the Vichy French abandoned the rescue operations, leading to the death of over half of Laconias passengers and crew.
* 1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
Many of these carefully collected scientific data had been lost during the ill-fated journey of Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen, two crew members sent on a mission by Amundsen, but they were later retrieved by Russian scientist Nikolay Urvantsev as they lay abandoned on the Kara Sea shores.
Skylab was abandoned after the end of the SL-4 mission in February 1974, but to welcome visitors the crew left a bag filled with supplies and left the hatch unlocked.
McCauley abandoned the score after one of Adamson's officers, positioned on the top floor of a building McCauley and his crew were breaking into, broke protocol to go to the toilet.
The largest, the English flagship HMS Royal Charles, was abandoned by its skeleton crew, captured without a shot being fired, and towed back to the Netherlands as a trophy.
White and his crew escaped to England with their lives but " they robbed us of all our victuals, powder, weapons and provision ", and the journey to Virginia had to be abandoned.
Felice and Clare are siblings and are both actor / producers touring ‘ The Two-Character Play .’ They have supposedly been abandoned by their crew and have been left to put on the play by themselves.
In 1879, Captain Robert Watson with his wife Mary Watson, two servants and baby son, modified an abandoned cottage left on the island by the crew of the Julia Percy.
After the passenger services ended, the railroad used the depot, located at 400 Railroad Avenue, for offices, training rooms, train crew staging areas, and storage, but abandoned the building in the late 1980s.
Minutes before launch, the bewildered crew of Air Force Colonel Charles Brubaker ( James Brolin ), Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Peter Willis ( Sam Waterston ), and Navy Commander John Walker ( O. J. Simpson ) are removed from Capricorn One and flown to an abandoned United States Army Air Corps desert base.
Heavily damaged by the bombs, torpedoes and following explosions, the crew prevented the ship from capsizing by counter-flooding a number of compartments, and the West Virginia sank to the harbor bottom as her crew — including Miller — abandoned ship.
After evacuating the ship of passengers, the crew could not control the fire and the abandoned ship sank on December 2.
Ideas deemed unworkable by the testing crew, such as airbag explosions and collisions between front and rear sections of the car, were abandoned, and the remaining segments were slowly brought together until the full and final sequence was developed.
The crew abandoned the passengers, leaving just the captain, ship's mate and one sailor, assisted by three local men, to lead 375 men, women and children to safety.
When the crew abandoned ship the blackbirders would loot the ship of cargo and other valuables.
Eventually it had to be abandoned and the crew and militia waded ashore but it was another twenty-four hours before the other ships were able to land their men and supplies.
The crew abandoned the heavily damaged ship at nightfall, and she sank soon after.
Immersion survival suits are dry suits carried for use by ship and aircraft crew who will be immersed in cold water if the craft must be abandoned.

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