With the aircraft's fuel pump, navigation equipment and radio paralysed, the pilots glided the plane to a lower altitude and landed it on an airfield near the village of Izhma in the Komi region, about 1, 500 km (930 miles) from Moscow.

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After sunset, the plane slowly glides to lower altitudes on the stored power until dawn, when the process starts again.

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As Robbins, 44, and his 15-man crew approach the school--identified earlier by spotter plane--they lower two 40-foot boats into the water.

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The aircraft's pilot and navigator were found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter, even though the military admitted the plane had been flying lower and faster than authorized.

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This impressive plane flies slightly slower and lower, but sports a significantly larger cabin, carries more fuel and flies longer legs.

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In general, when a stick shaker activates, pilots are taught to apply full power and maintain the plane's altitude or lower the nose, a captain for a major airline told CNN.

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From his apartment, Wright said he watched television images of the second hijacked plane as it plunged into the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.

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Part of the reason the company thinks it can lower costs is because, unlike Pegasus, it already has a carrier aircraft - the same plane that will be lifting the passenger spaceship to its launch altitude.

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