* In the pilot episode for the Adult Swim show, Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil, Satan apologizes for calling Lucy after having 4 Appletinis.

His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.

Captain Heard gave orders for the ship to be anchored in the Bay of Bengal until he could obtain the services of a reputable pilot to steer her through the shallow waters.

`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.

He found the pilot light and turned on one of the burners for her.

Our take-up machines and our twister-coners are undergoing important pilot plant testing for application with new high polymer yarns, in several fiber producing plants.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

The lack of adequate data on the aerated lagoon system prompted the developer to construct an aerated lagoon pilot plant to determine its feasibility for treating domestic sewage.

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

* 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.

He had wanted to be a commercial pilot for the Saudi national airline but was rejected when he applied to the civil aviation school in Jeddah in 1999.

Aircraft were getting progressively more displays, dials and information dashboards that eventually competed for space and pilot attention.

Of course, a loss of radio communications may also be the cause for a lack of response, in which case a pilot would usually squawk 7600 anyway.

At first, the FBI had named Abdul Rahman al-Omari, a pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines, as the pilot of Flight 11.

* 1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

Jean Navarre was the pilot who was tasked to make the flight, but he died on 10 July 1919 when he crashed near Villacoublay while training for the flight.

During the Gulf War, the HARM was involved in a friendly fire incident when the pilot of an F-4G Wild Weasel escorting a B-52 bomber mistook the latter's tail gun radar for an Iraqi AAA site.

The basic pilot training is concentrated in Pirassununga ( AFA-Academia da Força Aérea ) and uses the Neiva T-25 and the well known Embraer T-27 Tucano for basic instruction.

The Warriors were not only used for pilot training, but also as light strike aircraft, and a number of them were employed by the FABF's Escadrille de Chasse ( EdC ).

In 2005, as a pilot of the potential of internet petitions, a version of e-Petitioner was produced for the Bundestag.

It is still widely used today for springs, bearings, bushings, automobile transmission pilot bearings, and similar fittings, and is particularly common in the bearings of small electric motors.

Starting in 2009, vehicular traffic is banned at Times Square between 47th and 42nd Streets, and at Herald Square between 35th and 33rd Streets as part of a pilot program ; the right-of-way is intact and reserved for cyclists and pedestrians.

* Green Light for Midtown New York City Department of Transportation pilot program for Broadway traffic

The pilot tried to shut down the faulty engine, but mistakenly shut down the working No. 2 engine.

The pilot, co-pilot, and Flight Engineer had become fixated on a faulty landing gear light and had failed to realize that the autopilot buttons had been bumped by one of the crew altering the settings from level flight to a slow descent.

The trouble was later traced to a faulty wiring harness ( cable ) to the artificial horizon and attitude indicating instruments, which when failed caused the indicator to mislead the pilot into thinking he was going left, prompting him to bank to the right, that eventually rolled the aircraft and caused it to go into a steep dive, with no chance of recovery.

At around this time, the flight had a near midair collision with Delta Air Lines Flight 2315, reportedly missing the plane by only 300 feet, as air traffic controller Dave Bottiglia frantically tried to tell the Delta pilot to take evasive action.

The control tower alerted both pilots to the conflict ; the Cessna pilot turned away, while the 777 pilot leveled the jet's climb in response to a traffic collision avoidance system resolution advisory.

The collision with the anemometer took the starboard wing off the Miles Falcon Six he was travelling in, and killed pilot Malcolm " Mac " McGregor.

The National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) investigation concluded that the probable cause was the " presence of an unauthorized vehicle on the runway which caused the pilot to attempt a go-around after touchdown to avoid a collision.

The collision destroys the Aztec, kills its pilot, and injures his passenger, but the One-Elevens flight crew manages to abort their takeoff successfully and all aboard the airliner evacuate without injury via evacuation slides.

Using funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the MBTA is conducting a pilot test of technology similar to a collision avoidance system in an automobile.

The student pilot, Sharon Hock, was directly below him, and they were unaware of each others ' presence until the collision.

Experienced pilots were to be used to fly the aircraft to a point upstream where it would be left to a " suicide pilot " to ensure a collision with the bridge and ignite the explosives.

On July 27, 2007, " SkyFox10 " pilot / reporter Don Hooper witnessed a mid-air collision over downtown Phoenix between two news helicopters belonging to KTVK and KNXV-TV as all three helicopters were following a police pursuit that was in progress at the time.

The German pilot was so shocked to see the underside of the Hurricane within arm's reach of his cockpit that he instinctively reduced his altitude to avoid a collision and crashed into the ground.

The 62-year-old pilot used improper Instrument Flight Rules operations, which caused his collision.

* September 3, 1989: Canadian Forces Snowbird pilot Captain Shane Antaya died when, after a midair collision, his Canadair CT-114 Tutor crashed into Lake Ontario.

* February 22, 1961-Golden Hawks Sabre pilot F / O Jim McCann was killed during formation practice after the right wing of his aircraft was severely damaged during a collision with another Sabre.

On 15 September 1942 this aircraft lost a wing in a midair collision when its pilot Leutnant Friedrich Hoffmann of 3 ./ JG 27 collided with a Bf 109 piloted by Unteroffizier Heinrich Pein of 5 ./ JG 27.

Mills Field was renamed Mather Field for Second Lieutenant Carl Spencer Mather, a 25-year-old army pilot killed in a mid-air collision while training at Ellington Field, Texas on January 30, 1918.

The military crew described the light as like a huge green meteor except it arched upwards and then flat instead of downwards The civilian crew described the light as having a trajectory too low and flat for a meteor, at first abreast and ahead of them but then appearing to come straight at them on a collision course, forcing the pilot to swerve the plane at which time the object appeared full moon size.

There have been reports of green fireballs outside the U. S. and long after the early days of Project Twinkle often near sensitive government or military bases: Randles and Houghe note that a Royal Air Force pilot had a near collision with three unusual green fireballs near Manchester, England, and were also sighted near a nuclear power plant in Suffolk in 1983 ( Randles and Houghe, p. 92 ).

Roger Hines ( Courtney B. Vance ), the shuttle pilot, is seriously injured in the collision, leaving the four senior astronauts to handle the crisis.

With the help of the Seventh Doctor, Frost entered the mind of the dead pilot and discovered that the crash was a result of a collision with an alien spacecraft.

* Quick action, by the pilot of an American Airlines DC-10, averted a mid-air collision with a TWA Lockheed Tri-Star that could have killed 308 people.

The locomotive's pilot, headlight, and cylinders are damaged in the collision.

The officer or harbor pilot relies upon the helmsman to flawlessly execute steering commands to avoid a variety of hazards, including man-made obstacles, land formations, grounding in shallow waters, and the threat of collision with other vessels.

* A collision between Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 342 and the antenna on Tower One of the World Trade Center was averted when an alert air traffic controller, Donald Zimmerman, ordered the pilot to turn right and to climb.