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.

For example, in 1940, Gerald Gallagher, a British colonial officer and licensed pilot, radioed his superiors to inform them that he had found a " skeleton ... possibly that of a woman ", along with an old-fashioned sextant box, under a tree on the island's southeast corner.

At a safe distance north of Cuba, the pilot feathered the engine with the pre-installed bullet holes in the cowling, radioed a mayday call, and requested immediate permission to land at Miami International airport.

The pilot radioed that he had engine trouble and was going to return to the airport.

As a result, the Eisenhower Administration, thinking the pilot had died in the crash, authorized the release of a cover story claiming that the plane was a " weather research aircraft " which had strayed into Soviet airspace after the pilot had radioed " difficulties with his oxygen equipment " while flying over Turkey.

As the tanker sped towards the aircraft, air traffic control radioed the pilot to slow down, and the tanker immediately came to a stop.

The pilot radioed Malta, informing his airfield that he was ditching in the mouth of the River Sele, coincidentally the area where the rendezvous was to occur.

The pilot radioed ahead for a police presence at Sydney airport.

The pilot then banned everyone from leaving their seats and radioed ahead asking police to meet the aircraft, the report said.

About twelve minutes into the flight, the 60-year-old pilot radioed Air Traffic Control, " Mayday, rough engine.

About thirty seconds after initiating the procedure, the pilot radioed Air Traffic Control, " Seven niner three, in trouble.

Once launched the Sea Eagle is completely autonomous, with the flight and target seeking completely controlled by the on-board computer system which functions according to programmable options covering a large set of cruise, search and attack options, including a simple, pre-programmed ' point and shoot ' mode that allows it to be carried by basic aircraft without radar, using targeting information radioed to the pilot from external sources or even visually located by him, with the missile's short minimum range assisting this.

A few minutes later, the pilot radioed Tocumen air traffic control again, announcing his intention to return to his original route.

In the same month, it was reported that Prince Harry was said to be a natural pilot who was reportedly top of his class in the extensive training he had undertaken at the Naval Air Facility, El Centro, California.

* An attack on El Al passengers jet at Zürich airport on 18 February 1969, killing the co-pilot and wounding the pilot ;

The use of Basque language ( Euskera ) terminology in the present territory of Colombia goes back to the early exploration occurred in 1499, during the third voyage of Columbus, it is said that from that time the territory experienced a strong presence of Basques including prominent figures such as the pilot and geographer Juan de la Cosa, nicknamed " El Vizcaino " ( although some sources claim that reputable and solvent was not a native of the Basque Country, but was born in Santona, Cantabria ).

Isla Grande was renamed in honor of United States Air Force Major Fernando Luis Ribas-Dominicci, an F-111 pilot who was killed in action during Operation El Dorado Canyon ; the 1986 airstrike of Libya.

One, an El Al pilot, was threatened with dismissal and another lost his civilian job.

After evaluating several alternatives, the famous German pilot Herbert Boy settled on an area of land called " El Guabito " because of its location, proximity to the city and its proximity to the road a stretched into Juanchito Antioquia Avenue.

Gameel Al-Batouti (; also rendered " Gamil El Batouty ", " El Batouti ", or " El Batouty " in U. S. official reports ) ( 2 February 1940 – 31 October 1999 ) was a pilot for EgyptAir, his home country's national airline, and a former officer for the Egyptian Air Force.

Al-Batouti was approaching retirement ( aviation regulations prevented him from flying as a commercial airline pilot after age 60 ), and had planned to split his time between a 10-bedroom villa outside of Cairo and a beach house near El Alamin.

Turlington was born in Walnut Creek, California, the middle of three daughters born to Dwain Turlington, a pilot for Pan American World Airways and a flight attendant from El Salvador, María Elizabeth ( née Parker ).

Stopping at a cantina near Santo Poco, they are mistaken for associates of a fast-shooting German pilot ( Kai Wulff ), who is also looking for El Guapo and who arrived just before they did.

By example, in El Mundo de los Aviones ( World of Planes ), Capulina is a pilot that always fail to land his plane correctly hitting on some wall and encrusting a partner in the process.

* El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera as White Pantera ( pilot ), additional voices ( 2005-2007 )

The pilot episode introduces the men and women of the El Camino Police Department ( ECPD ).

Lotfia ElNadi ( also spelled El-Nadi, El Nadi, Alnadi, Al Nadi ) ( 1907-2002 ) () was an Egyptian aviatrix ( Female pilot ).

Arlen is best known for his role as a pilot in the Academy Award-winning Wings ( 1927 ) with Clara Bow, Charles ' Buddy ' Rogers, Gary Cooper, El Brendel, and his first wife, Jobyna Ralston, whom he married in 1927.

His pilot, Juan de la Cosa drew his world map ( the first including the coast of New World ) in El Puerto in 1500.

During its use by the military Santa Maria AAF also controlled Estrella Army Airfield, near Paso Robles as an auxiliary airfield to support the pilot training activity.

* 1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname due to pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.

They have five children, including the late Alan G. Poindexter, a NASA astronaut, Space Shuttle pilot on the STS-122 mission to the International Space Station, and the commander of STS-131.

The township was the site of a plane crash on May 21, 2000, when an airplane, in its attempt to land at the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton International Airport in nearby Avoca, crashed in what was described by the BBC as a " wooded area " of the township near the intersection of Bear Creek Boulevard ( PA-Route 115 ) and the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, killing the pilot as well as all 19 passengers.

In the early 1980s San Jose International Airport was one of the first U. S airports to participate in the noise regulation program enacted by the U. S. Congress for delineation of airport noise contours and developing a pilot study of residential sound insulation.

Two years later, she became the first female pilot to fly out of the bean patch that later became Los Angeles International Airport.

Al Ain is also the home of Horizon International flight academy, Etihad Airways's cadet pilot training center.

Cochran was also the first woman to land and take off from an aircraft carrier, the first woman to reach Mach 2, the first woman to pilot a bomber across the North Atlantic ( in 1941 ), the first pilot to make a blind ( instrument ) landing, the only woman ever to be President of the Federation Aeronautique International ( 1958 – 1961 ), the first woman to fly a fixed-wing, jet aircraft across the Atlantic, the first pilot to fly above 20, 000 ft with an oxygen mask, and the first woman to enter the Bendix Transcontinental Race.

Among them, the School of Software is the only statewide pilot School of Software at a teachers ’ university ; The International College of Chinese Studies is among the 8 State Bases for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, certified by the Ministry of Education.

On June 1, 1999, American Airlines Flight 1420 crashed upon landing at Little Rock National Airport on a flight from Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport, killing the pilot and 10 passengers.

He joined the South African Training Ship General Botha in 1924 or 1925 as a cadet ( cadet number 168 ), after which he joined the Union-Castle Line of the International Mercantile Marine Co. which later earned him the nickname of " Sailor " amongst his pilot colleagues.

The pilot, Richard Boddy, barely avoids disaster when he is able to restart one engine and land safely at Miami International Airport.

In 1997, the Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ) -- now dismantled and recreated in the services-oriented United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ) and the enforcement-oriented US Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- developed a pilot program called Coordinated Interagency Partnership Regulating International Students ( CIPRIS ) in collaboration with the Department of State.

In August 1972 he was competing in the Goodyear International Air Trophy at Halfpenny Green, near Wolverhampton, with Vyrell Mitchell -- a pilot with whom the prince had often raced -- listed as a passenger.

The pilot and two passengers, on a flight from Chicago Midway International Airport, perished in the crash.

Many of the passengers were aware of the situation when the pilot announced that the flight was to be diverted to Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts.

As a pilot, Lusser won the International Light Aircraft Contest in France in 1928.

The comments followed on from an incident the week previous when angry passengers took a Ghana Airways pilot hostage at Kokota International Airport, after they had waited for some days for their flights on the airline.

* April 4 – Trans World Airlines Flight 841, a Boeing 727-31 with 89 people on board on a flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota, suddenly rolls sharply to the right over Saginaw, Michigan, and goes into a spiral dive from 39, 000 feet ( 11, 887 m ) including two 360-degree rolls despite corrective measures taken by both the autopilot and the human pilot, losing 34, 000 ( 10, 363 m ) of altitude in 63 seconds before the flight crew manages to pull out of the dive at 5, 000 feet ( 1, 524 m ).

* March 6 – The last flight of the SR-71 Blackbird takes place, when Lieutenant Colonels Ed Yielding ( pilot ) and Joseph Vida ( reconnaissance systems officer ) fly U. S. Air Force SR-71A serial number 61-17972 from Palmdale, California, to Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia, setting a Los Angeles, California-to-Washington, D. C. world record time of 1 hour 4 minutes 20 seconds at an average speed of 2, 124 mph ( 3, 420 kph ).

After a lengthy discussion, the pilot decides that he lacks the fuel to continue and opts to land at Guangzhous Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport against Jiangs wishes, and Jiang wrestles control of the aircraft from him moments before landing.