Word: copilot
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...Rutan, 48, was determined not to be waved off. "You betcha I'm going to land the first time," he said, and brought his graceful, eye-catching craft in for a perfect landing. Rutan, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, could be excused for being impatient. He and his copilot, Jeana Yeager, 34, had just spent 111 hours aboard the experimental aircraft Voyager without stopping or refueling, flying 11,600 miles and unofficially breaking a 1931 record of 84 hours aloft and a 1962 mark of 11,337 miles in a closed circuit...
...government reluctantly authorized representatives of China Airlines to negotiate directly with the mainland's Civil Aviation Administration of China. Last week, after four days of talks in Hong Kong, the two organizations agreed on terms for the return to Taiwan of the $62 million aircraft, as well as the copilot and flight engineer, who were unwilling passengers on the unscheduled trip...
...story offered by the other two crew members of the China Airlines jet on their return to Taiwan strengthened those suspicions. Copilot Tung Kuang- hsing said that Wang had choked him with a steel chain and handcuffed him in the cockpit. Flight Engineer Chiu Ming-chih said that at one point the plane swerved out of control as he knelt before Wang, begging him to change his mind. The captain, however, reportedly threatened his crewmates with an ax and muttered, "I'm sorry. I've been planning this for a long time...
...which Federal Aviation Administration rules required that he relinquish the flight controls. Unwilling to be knocked out of the sky so abruptly, the pilot put in to be a flight engineer, the second officer on many commercial flights who flies the plane only if the pilot and copilot are incapacitated. But Western had an age- 60 retirement rule for flight engineers too, and Criswell was grounded. Seven years ago, he and two others sued, charging that Western's rule violated the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act, which generally forbids forced retirement before...
...become somewhat famous too. Starting in April, a new McDonald's TV commercial will feature them in scenes from their current jobs, wearing caps like the ones they wore under the golden arches. McLaughlin might be seen, stethoscope in hand, listening to a patient's heartbeat. United / Airlines Copilot Tom Losasso, 45, who worked for McDonald's while at Colorado State College, will be at the controls of a Boeing...