Word: pilote
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Approximately 140 people died yesterday in one of the worst aviation disasters in United States history. A Pacific Southwest Airlines 727 carrying 133 people collided with a Cessana 150 flown by a student pilot on the approach to San Diego airport. At least three people died after the planes landed because their wreckage set several buildings on fire...
...student pilot of the Cessana apparently attempted an instrument landing in San Diego's Lindbergh Field. The collision occurred about 30,000 feet above the ground...
Actual suicides by children under 14 are still rare; fewer than 200 a year occur in the U.S. But investigators are finding that attempted suicides and deep depression are unexpectedly common among emotionally disturbed youngsters. Psychiatrist Joaquim Puig-Antich of Columbia University, who has conducted a pilot study in this little-explored area, estimates that perhaps one out of every 200 American prepubertal children is despondent enough to think of suicide. Of the 50 depressed children he has treated over the past three years, 70% had suicidal thoughts and about a third had tried to kill themselves...
DIED. Willy Messerschmitt, 80, German industrialist and aircraft designer whose single-engine fighter plane dominated Luftwaffe squadrons during World War II; after surgery; in Munich. Awarded a glider pilot's license at the age of 15, Messerschmitt first gained fame building light sports planes. The young, soft-spoken engineer specialized in increasing aircraft speed and soon received military assignments. During the war, German factories filled European and African skies with 40,000 of his ME-109 fighters and ME-110 twin-engine bombers, aircraft so effective that Allied pilots who displayed bad nerves were said to have "the Messerschmitt...
Readers of Fate Is the Hunter, Ernest K. Gann's unnerving account of his days as an airline and Air Transport Command pilot, will recognize the flying style. What is surprising about this rambunctious autobiography, however, is that although Gann tells a number of good wing-and-prayer yarns, some of his most surprising adventures have had nothing to do with aviation. He has been a newsreel cameraman, soldier, Broadway actor, polo player, farmer, cartoonist, commercial fisherman, deepwater yachtsman, Hollywood talent scout and, of course, a bestselling novelist (The High and the Mighty, Band of Brothers). He wrote, directed...