Pilot Air Freight, the company which carried the unusual cargo, pointed out that, apart from anything else, Mr McKinley had narrowly escaped death by having the good fortune to fly in pressurised, heated cabins.
The pilot and air traffic controller discussed options, including landing at Teterboro airport in New Jersey, the official said.
When he was found in the cockpit, Mr Jernnard identified himself as a 747 pilot for Air France, authorities said.
"It is a matter for the investigation to decide whether it was a pilot or air traffic control problem, all the circumstances will be investigated".
Following his time as a test pilot the Air Commodore commanded No 29 Squadron during the Battle of Britain where he flew Blemheim's and later, Beaufighters.
"Air Force One, missed approach, " the pilot announced to air traffic controllers, according to radio recordings on the website LiveATC.net.
"We compete in the land of the giants, " says Jones, 56, a onetime fighter pilot for the Air Force who later spent 15 years coaxing Congress and the Pentagon to fund big-ticket Rockwell International programs like the B-1 bomber.
The pilot, a father-of-two with 25 years' experience, had flown as an air ambulance pilot and in several films during his career.
Tel-Oren was a pilot in the Israeli air force and can recall missions he might rather have not have flown when he was a pilot.
He grew up around Laredo, when his family wasn't moving with his father, an Air Force pilot.
But he said money and perks could not be the only motivating factor for an air force pilot.
Cordier, the Air Force pilot who was tortured, says he still relies on his faith in God and country.
Haignere, an air force pilot who visited Mir for three weeks in 1993, plans two space walks during his mission.
Mr. Perry is touting his service as an Air Force pilot and taking counsel from advisors deeply imbued with the Reagan philosophy.
This will be used by Andy Green, a Royal Air Force pilot who will drive the car, to get the vehicle moving.
When his MiG fighter jet crashed in Kashmir on May 27, the Indian Air Force pilot parachuted into enemy territory and was taken prisoner.
Prince Harry is absent from the celebrations, as he is currently serving as an Apache helicopter pilot with the Army Air Corps in Afghanistan.
Goldstein is a former fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force.
Rod Lewis was the son of an Air Force pilot, and from an early age he could take an engine apart and put it back together.
"If Prince Harry qualifies as an Army Air Corps pilot, he will, like any officer, be available for operational service wherever the AAC flies, " it said.
The former US Air Force Pilot, who had settled in Alton, was arrested in February 2011 after raising the suspicions of another pilot on an internet forum.
Former pupils of the school include the distinguished US Air Force pilot, General Gordon Graham, the American football player Russell Letlow and the television actress Jeanne Cooper.
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Mel Gibson stars as a daredevil Air Corps pilot in 1939 who volunteers for a cryogenics experiment after his true love (Isabel Glasser) enters a seemingly irreversible coma.
William is a search and rescue pilot for the Royal Air Force and must decide soon if he wants to stay on in the service for another three years.
The group of Americans - 22 of whom were CIA agents and one an Air Force pilot - are believed to be living in the US and are unlikely to serve their sentences.
The Air Force pilot replied, I don't know.
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Barrowman's character is a mysterious, immortal man from the 51st century who adopted the identity of a World War II Royal Air Force pilot and ultimately ended up protecting mankind with the help of a secretive alien-hunting team of Earthlings.
The symbol of the test-pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert, where Mr Armstrong spent years testing military jets, flying the X-15 at 4, 000mph to the very edge of the atmosphere, is a slide rule over a stylised aircraft.
Air Comet declined to identify the pilot's name but said he waited until landing to inform Air Comet management about what he saw.
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