Such was the case with, Jessica whose airplane was fitted with special controls and a booster seat to help the 4-foot-2-inch girl pilot the plane.
Piccard and Borschberg will take turns to pilot the plane.
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It's the first model to feature an interface powered by the PS2's Graphics Synthesizer and Emotion Engine chips, too, and comes with a clamshell, joystick-equipped remote control that looks like you could use it to pilot a plane and solve complex equations while you watch.
Some witnesses said the pilot appeared to deliberately turn the plane toward the vacant lot to avoid hitting people in the area, but Plagens said it was too early to say whether the pilot could control the plane.
He said air traffic control contacted the pilot after noticing an unusual manoeuvre minutes after take-off and the pilot said his plane had hit a vulture.
Berretta was sitting in seat 16A right over one of the engines when it failed and the pilot turned the plane to align it with the Hudson River.
Having an exploration itch himself, Karlgaard became a small-plane pilot, promptly putting his new skills to use traveling around the country to see this latest generation of pioneers firsthand.
The jumbo jet experienced turbulence on approach to Toledo and was within sight of the runway when the pilot pulled the plane up and circled the airport, according to reporters on board.
Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, said a pocketknife can be just as deadly as a box cutter, like the ones the hijackers used.
"Hey, that Japan Air may know it but they have fuel spewing out the leftward wing quite a bit, " the pilot of another plane told the control tower, which radioed the JAL crew and halted takeoff.
The flight is believed to have lost an engine mid-air, and the pilot of the plane is reported to have called for emergency landing while making futile, frantic efforts to sustain the aircraft with the remaining functional engine.
When Jeffrey Skiles, the co-pilot of the plane that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in January 2009, explained how he and his captain decided that an airport landing was impossible, he described the same "gaze heuristic": The angle of the plane's descending glide made the airport appear to rise in their windscreen view clearly signaling that a landing there was doomed.
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The ATSB believe the plane became depressurised, leaving the pilot and passengers unconscious and the plane flying automatically until it ran out of fuel.
Within minutes, the pilot had got the plane down to 11, 000 feet, where the passengers could begin to breath normally again.
The lawsuit alleges Damon York, 33, pilot of the Cessna plane, violated Canadian aviation regulations by allowing the drunken passenger to board his flight.
"Whatever the outcome of the investigation, we need to applaud the pilot, as the plane didn't crash into the runway, " said Herry Bakti, the director general of air transportation at the Transportation Ministry.
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Moments earlier, the plane's pilot had radioed for help, CNN affiliate WNDU-TV reported.
As a precaution, the pilot starts turning the huge plane in circles to see what the targets do.
The second plane's pilot, an adult male, was transported to Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, according to state police.
"I was shovelled out of the plane by the pilot's door, while she went out to face the press, " Tatham recalls.
He was discovered in the jump seat behind the pilot on a US Airways plane on Wednesday evening, an officer said.
The plane's pilot radioed for help after experiencing problems with the technical equipment, WNDU reported, adding that a landing attempt failed.
The altitude at which the co-pilot handed control of the plane to his colleague was below the minimum altitude considered safe to continue final descent.
While the Air Force based its decision on cost, aviation experts say there are advantages to a surveillance plane with a pilot in the cockpit.
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The pilot tried to bring his plane down on the water.
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Virginia Beach EMS Division Chief Bruce Nedelka said the carnage could have been much worse, had the plane's pilot not dumped fuel shortly before crashing.
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One camera provides the pilot a few from the plane, while another, on the belly of the gadget, is used to help keep the plane steady.
"All the big pioneers of the 20th century have tried to fly coast to coast across America, " said co-pilot and one of the plane's founders, Bertrand Piccard.
The plane's pilot Ian Dalglish died shortly after the crash.
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