Word: flighted
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...final moments of last Tuesday's American Airlines Flight 1420 were a ride through white-knuckle hell. The skies near Little Rock National Airport were being thrashed by a top-of-the-scale, level-6 thunderstorm. The plane and its human cargo--139 passengers and six crew members--were being tossed around by winds up to 80 m.p.h. And in the cockpit, the pilot and co-pilot were getting two separate wind-shear alerts. When the wheels of the twin-engine Super MD-80 finally touched down, it was on a runway made slick by heavy rain and marble-size...
...sort of like the Wright Brothers," he says. "When they took off on their first flight, it only took 12 seconds...
...what followed proves beyond a doubt that the seemingly impossible--be it human flight or the management of incurable diseases--may sometimes be achieved through passion and dedication, two attributes Folkman has in spades...
Organizers said they still hope that FletcherUniversity Professor Cornel R. West '74 willspeak, but he was on a flight late last night andcould not be reached by protesters...
...told investigators that he recalled reading the checklist while Buschmann flew the jet, but investigators still haven't been satisfied about why certain steps -- first and foremost the deployment of the wing spoilers -- apparently weren't performed. A mechanical postmortem may help them decide; the wrecked plane got the Flight 800 treatment on Tuesday and was moved to a hangar for autopsy. The plane's spoiler system will be removed and sent to NTSB labs for testing that, in a few weeks, could definitively decide between pilot and mechanical error. USA Today's sources may be trying to save...