Word: copiloting
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Died. Eleven executives of the Ashland Oil & Refining Co., of Ashland. Ky.. and their pilot and copilot, when the company's twin-engined Lockheed Lodestar spun into a pasture and burst into flames; near Ravenna, Ohio. Ashland is the nation's 20th largest oil company, with sales of $312 million last year; it was the worst industrial-aircraft accident in U.S. history...
...When the two engines went out, Pilot Conway asked the flight engineer to open an emergency valve that would have permitted an extra flow of fuel to both dead engines. But Copilot James Greenlee, who was killed in the crash, canceled the request and the valve stayed shut. Testified Conway: "I would much rather have seen that valve open...
...through Europe with all my diamonds and my personal maid." The oilionairesses tend to take their recreation in groups. Mrs. James Abercrombie of Houston and four of her friends call themselves "The Flying Five" and periodically take off in one of her husband's planes (with pilot and copilot) for a sightseeing jaunt in the Caribbean or somewhere. Mrs. Ralph Fair of San Antonio often piles a gaggle of girls into the family DC-3 for a fortnight -with a hairdresser and a masseuse-at the Fair ranch in Montana...
...ground from Havana airport, bound for the Isle of Pines with 53 aboard, when five men rushed the flight deck, guns in hand. Two guards aboard the plane fired their pistols. In the point-blank battle, the pilot, one guard and an attacker were killed. Six others, including the copilot, were wounded. Miraculously, the copilot managed to land in a sugar cane field, and the surviving would-be hijackers fled...
...laconic announcement on the plane's public-address system: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have a passenger that wants to go to Cuba, so we're taking him. Please stay in your seats and offer no resistance." As they approached Havana, the escorting F-102 turned back. Electra Copilot John Yandell got the pirate's approval to ask Key West for the Havana airport frequencies, and managed to slip in a quick warning: "This is an emergency. We are being forced at gunpoint to fly to Cuba...