Word: copiloting
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...hours and 3,200,000 air miles, Captain Heath Proctor of American Airlines boarded his four-engined DC-6 Nevada at Newark Airport as businesslike as his trim blue uniform. As the plane droned west at 20,000 ft. and 275 m.p.h., he turned his controls over to his copilot, walked back through the pressurized cabin to chat with his 54 passengers. Three hours and 22 minutes later, his Flight No. 19 rolled to a stop at the Chicago terminal...
Captain Josef Klesnil, pilot of the plane from Brno, had flown 17 minutes on his northeasterly course when copilot and radioman pulled pistols on him. They ordered him to turn southwest. "Don't joke," said Klesnil. "If you go against our wishes," said the mutineers, "we'll blow your brains out." For more than an hour, with pistols at his head, the captain flew southwest, beyond the Czech border to Munich, in the U.S. zone of Germany...
Pilot Claude, Copilot Lewis, their flight engineer and 15 of the Aztec's 41 passengers escaped from the white-hot pyre. When the wreckage had cooled, an American Airlines ground crewman stood sobbing as he kept count, in a little black notebook, of the bodies carried from the blackened metal. Total: 28. Three days later the heads of eleven major U.S. airlines were feted in Chicago at a luncheon (scheduled long before the crash) to honor commercial aviation's record for safety. Their statistics proved that IQ49, even including the Dallas crash, could still...
...when the fire was finally extinguished and the charred wreck was pulled away, 14-the pilot, copilot, the airline operator and eleven students-were dead...
...Copilot. After 13 years as boss of Curtiss-Wright Corp., Guy W. Vaughan, 64, shifted some of the load to younger shoulders. As oldtime airman Vaughan moved to board chairman, William C. Jordan, 50, onetime vice president and general manager of Steel Products Engineering Co., became president. Vaughan hired Jordan away after the war, and groomed him for his new job by making him general manager of the Curtiss-Wright airplane division and later vice president and general manager of Wright Aeronautical, the engine-building division...