While the Khans seemed to have financial problems starting around 2005. Mr. Khan finished up business school that year and amassed enough flight training to pilot a plane by himself.

虽然表面上看，Khan一家从2005年开始就存在财政问题，但Khan先生却仍在那一年读完了商学院，并为自己的飞行员培训付了足够的钱。

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I want to be a pilot to fly a plane.

我想成为一名驾驶飞机的飞行员。

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The plane is destroyed, a complete wreck: the pilot must have died on impact.

飞机被毁，完全成了一堆残骸：飞行员一定在撞击中丧生了。

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In another example, pilot Edith Foltz Stearns was flying a plane to a military base in Scotland during World War Two.

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Pilot Chesley Sullenberger safely landed a US Airways passenger plane on New York's Hudson River after both its engines failed.

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

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His decision to testify and "admit" that he was to pilot a plane into the White House comes off as a teenage boast by someone who was never as important as he felt he should be.

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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.

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If a pilot wants to bring a plane down, he or she can probably do it with bare hands, and certainly without weapons.

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