Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he became head of the Youth Congress, Sanjay tried to lay his hands on as much power as he could get. Throughout India, Sanjay's crew went about harassing shopkeepers and other people to lower prices, contribute to the Congress party, or at least get sterilized. In effect, there was a "Sanjay" in every village and town. While in India this summer, I accompanied an American friend on a shopping expedition. He was considering buying something, when I advised him that it could be bought cheaper elsewhere. The shopkeeper overheard me, and he sidled up to me, saying ominously...
Since both pilots and the tower were tuned to the same radio frequency, the Pan Am crew heard this exchange. "He's not cleared for takeoff," someone in the Pan Am cockpit concluded reassuringly...
...crew asked for air-control clearance?meaning its flight path, not approval to take off. The tower provided the instructions. As required, KLM repeated the directions to confirm it had heard correctly...
...taxiway in a short loop leading to the head of the runway. The Clipper had passed C3, which headed back toward the terminal in a difficult turn for a big plane. Another sharp turn onto the taxiway would be required. Pan Am officials were later to explain that the crew considered C-l inactive because it was blocked by aircraft and assumed that the final turn was the "third intersection" the tower meant the plane to take. Pan Am was only about 475 ft. away from its safe exit when all hell broke loose. Captain Grubbs and First Officer Bragg...
...yelled Bragg as Grubbs gunned his engines in a frantic effort to veer onto the grass and out of the path of the onrushing KLM. As the crew stared in horror, the nose of the KLM lifted sharply?but not high enough...