She stayed calm, diverted the Royal Mail plane, then gave the Russian pilot the instructions he needed to find the beam again while avoiding the radio masts.

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After weeks of anxiously checking the mail for job offers and plane tickets, I received a single reply, from a professor at Berkeley.

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He said the department would "pull together a promotion" and mail it out to a database of small plane owners in the UK and France.

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