The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said on its radio station that the pilot was Stefan Nikolian, and he was flying a civilian training plane.
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His most recent acquisition is an AT-6 training plane used by the Tuskegee airmen, the black pilots who flew as the 332nd Fighter Group in World War II.
In 2006, portions of human remains from a crash of a Navy training plane that killed four people were cremated and deposited in a landfill, rather than being placed in a group burial as they should have been, the time line said.
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The Canberra T4 is the training version of the plane, with the only difference from the PR9 being its dual controls.
The plane was on a training flight when it crashed, Yemeni officials said.
The plane was part of a training squadron at Oceana and was not carrying live ordnance.
Because this was a training mission, the only people on that plane were Air Force personnel.
The members of the 75th Ranger Regiment -- a U.S. special operations force -- were training at Joint Base Lewis-McChord when they jumped from a plane and got entangled in towering evergreen trees that canvass the sprawling military installation between Tacoma and Olympia.
Next stop was Moscow, where the plane was directed to a section of Sheremetyevo airport reserved for the training of Russia's anti-terrorist squads.
There are also varying guidelines about how many hours of training pilots must complete, below what altitude they should not hand over control of a plane and when they should abort landings.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said yesterday, he doesn't think there needs to be a total ban on carry-on baggage, because the restrictions on liquids and the extra training given to screeners means passengers can be protected without stopping them from bringing anything on the plane.
He argues the Army's approach, leaving the majority of the piloting to the plane's automatic systems, avoids accidents and saves resources that the Air Force wastes training human pilots.
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