Both of these manoeuvres would be less hazardous if the pilot could call on a second source of power to turn the blades for a few seconds while he was performing them, and Jean-Michel Billig and his team at Eurocopter (part of EADS, an aerospace and defence group) hope to provide just that.

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Pentagon officials said it was five minutes after the time of impact before the mayday call was issued, indicating the pilot was struggling to regain control of the crippled plane.

CNN: U.S. pilot struggled to regain control after collision

Discerning consumers will be able to call up competitive prices with a Palm Pilot or even their cell phones.

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After issuing a mayday call, the U.S. pilot made an emergency landing Sunday on the Chinese island of Hainan and remains there along with his 23 crew members as a standoff between the United States and China over the return of the plane and the crew continues.

CNN: U.S. pilot struggled to regain control after collision

He made a radio call telling her to release from the towing pilot, which she did.

BBC: Glider crash site near Ashbourne

Some of the pilot regions have been unable to cope with call volumes or have suffered catastrophic IT failures.

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An Apache pilot will be hard pressed to make the right call on whether to strike a convoy that could contain the oppressor or the oppressed.

CNN: IT'S FLIGHT OR FIGHT

Penny Pfaelzer, a spokeswoman for Korean Air, said the airline received a bomb threat at its Los Angeles call center concerning Flight KE072, which was carrying 134 passengers, a Canadian pilot and 12 crew members.

CNN: Bomb threat causes emergency landing in British Columbia

The quantity and quality of proposals received in response to the Phase II HELP Global Call 2003-04 were encouraging signs of progress being made by the original Phase I Pilot basins of 2001.

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