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Ruses Aloft. While most of the youths stood guard over the 122 other passengers, the leader, 27-year-old Takamaro Tamiya, pushed aside the stewardesses, who were handing out hot towels, and made his way into the unlocked cockpit of the tri-jet Boeing 727. At sword's point, he ordered Captain Shinji Ishida to set a course for the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, 625 miles away. Using the public address mike, the skyjackers warned that they carried bombs and would blow up the plane if their orders were not obeyed. In their belts and sticking...
...abdomen. Nonetheless, though he grazed a tree as he swung desperately from the line of fire, he managed to set the craft down on a 12-ft. by 12-ft. open square. Then, mumbling, "Forgive me. Your Beatitude, but I am wounded," Papadoyiannis crawled out of the cockpit and collapsed...
...Conway Show, which premieres on CBS this week, is also a witless formula sitcom, starring the ex-McHale's Navyman as pilot of a broken-down, one-plane airline. In the first episode, Conway gets locked out of the cockpit in midflight. Hilarious...
...doubt that most of them will soon be overcome. For example, Pratt & Whitney engineers quickly came up with recommendations for avoiding the engine trouble that delayed the inaugural flight. This problem occurs only rarely and is not dangerous. The engineers suggested that airlines have a man in the 747 cockpit watch the engine temperature gauges continuously during taxiing. If engine overheating is noticed immediately, they say, the pilot can shut down and restart the engines before they are damaged. Pratt & Whitney men think that no major modification of the engines themselves will be needed...
Just about the time I had him rising from his seat on the way to the cockpit, the no smoking - seat belt sign started flashing and a bell chimed. I held my breath as the engine slowed and the pilot came on the P. A. system to announce that we would be landing shortly in Philadelphia, Philadelphia? Who the hell did the pilot think he was landing in Philadelphia? What about the man with the black briefcase? What were the airlines doing making such suggestive announcements when they couldn't deliver the goods? Just another gimmick, I told myself. They...