Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Airlines 707 loses a wing flap, which breaks into five pieces, two weighing more than 300 Ibs., over the Chicago suburb of Palatine. Another American 707 sheds the 11-in. by 13-ft. tip of a wing flap over San Francisco Bay. And federal investigators report that basic pilot errors committed by Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson caused his Cessna Citation I jet to crash at Akron-Canton airport on Aug. 2, killing Munson and injuring two passengers...
...Revealed Religion in Appleton Chapel. His Catholic colleagues likened his precedent-shattering appearance in Harvard Yard to St. Paul's appearance at Mars Hill. So taken was the University with his measured address that he received an LL. D. degree at 1893 Commencement. Of the lectures themselves, the Boston Pilot, a weekly Catholic newspaper, observed, "No event could better symbolize the change in New England's views about Roman Catholicism from distrust to open-minded, if critical, investigation...
...Vineyard, a 70-mile, 35-minute trip. But then there was a delay: no equipment. Finally, at about 6 p.m., we got on a plane and joined a long line of other flights waiting to take off. Just as we reached the head of the line, the pilot said he had to refuel. At last, at around 7 p.m., we departed. But later, in midcourse, we veered left toward the Vineyard's neighboring island of Nantucket. Apparently our flight number was switched with that of the flight to Nantucket. So we landed there, stayed on the ground...
...Baker recalls one too typical experience. Before buying his ticket in New York City, he asked if there would be a problem with fog at Nantucket. As Baker tells it, "The clerk said no, Nantucket was fine, so I went. Of course, it was so fogged in that the pilot couldn't even find the island. We wound up in Boston, where I had to spend the night at a hotel. It seems that the airline just wasn't going to give up those fares...
...light up here on the control panel that's tryin' to tell us that the landin' gears're not... uh ... lockin' into position"). He is also the book's main foil, a member of a vanishing breed of hot-rock pilot in an age of increasingly automated flight...