Word: cockpits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report released by the Colombian government last Friday after a review of a transcript of the cockpit conversation during the half-hour before the crash indicated that it may have been the result of human error...
...necessary -- in other words, when enemies have more or less agreed to stop fighting. In such situations, Blue Helmets can provide the final impetus toward peace and supervise established arrangements, as happened in Cyprus, Mozambique, Cambodia, the Sinai and elsewhere. But it cannot work in a cockpit like Bosnia, as U.N. officials themselves warned three years ago. Nevertheless, the Security Council, with the support of the U.S., imposed a mission that mixed peacekeeping with humanitarian aid. It ensured the present debacle by sending in totally inadequate forces, with NATO in an absurd supporting role...
...getting shot out of the sky. "When you lose your wingman, part of you goes with him," said Wright, recalling the moment he saw O'Grady's plane cut to pieces by the sam. "It was pretty much a fireball, but out of the fireball, I could see the cockpit." Wright had to suppress his horror in order to concentrate on marking O'Grady's position. The plane plunged into the clouds so swiftly, however, that Wright could not tell if O'Grady had managed to safely eject...
...miraculously, he was. As his F-16 came apart, O'Grady reached for the ejection lanyard between his knees -- "this beautiful gold handle" he would call it at a press conference on Saturday -- and exploded through the disintegrating cockpit into the skies 26,000 ft. above the Bosnian forests. The ejection seat rocketed O'Grady into the air, its charge searing parts of his neck and face. After punching out of his plane, he opened his parachute manually instead of waiting for it to be released. It was afternoon and visibility from below was all too good...
...second helicopter, Berndt's, inadvertently landed on part of the fence, forcing the pilot to pick up again and move a few feet before setting down. In the front seat, sitting between the two pilots, Berndt peered through the cockpit and saw, to his astonishment, a young man running toward him with a pistol. The man was 50 or 60 yards away, coming up a little rise between some pine trees. The fog was fairly dense, and at first Berndt was not sure who it was. "But," he recalls, "I quickly figured...