The pilot gets on his radio and calls "mayday,mayday,mayday" to tell that his plane is in danger of crashing to the ground.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

It could change the plane's path just enough to destroy the pilot's chance of a safe landing.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Future generations may sing about the "hero on the Hudson" - the pilot who saved his passengers when he crash-landed on a river.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

The crash also took the lives of the pilot and two other singers -- J.P.Richardson, known as the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

There was a new system of liquid nitrogen to keep the pilot cool and to resist the crushing force of gravity at high speeds.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

On January 24th, the pilot known as "Sully" was honored in his hometown of Danville, California.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

The seats were built for the pilot to escape from an airplane in case of disaster.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

After a few seconds, when the X-15 was safely away, the pilot started its rocket engine.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The pilot reported a double bird strike - a rare event where birds enter both engines.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Schirra had been the pilot on an almost perfect Mercury flight three years before.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Once the real flight began, the pilot had to remember everything he learned.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The pilot was Michael Adams of the United States Air Force.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The pilot of the huge B-52 bomber plane pushes a button.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Michael Collins was the pilot of the command module vehicle,Columbia.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

It broke apart. The pilot did not survive.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The pilot and engine expert were men.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

The pilot's son, Francis Gary Powers Jr., is director of the Cold War Museum in Arlington,Virginia.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

But Air India chairman Jadhav has said there were no problems with the airport runway, and the pilot who landed the ill-fated aircraft had done so many times previously, and was highly experienced.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

Shops are open; people are at work. But many Poles are also asking questions such as why so many of the country's political leaders were traveling on one plane and why, if as Russian authorities say, the pilot ignored warnings against trying to land in poor weather conditions.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

A month later, on the morning of May fifth, American Navy pilot Alan Shepard crawled into his little Mercury spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

It carried the man who became the first human to step on the moon, Neil Armstrong, a former X-15 pilot.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

When last heard from, Amelia Earhart was seeking to become the first female pilot to fly a plane around the world.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

Snoopy dreams of himself as a pilot searching for the Red Baron, a famous German fighter pilot in World War One.

VOA: special.2009.10.25