Word: piloted
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WASHINGTON: What caused Korean Air Flight 801 to go down on Guam? Federal investigators are starting to develop a clearer picture of the culprit, and it's looking more and more like the pilot. Though the feds have tons of debris and data to scour before an official judgement, NBC reports early examinations of the plane's "black boxes" (in-flight data and cockpit voice recorders) show the pilot had mistaken a hilltop landing beacon three miles from the airport for the airport itself, and that he had approached that site as if to make a landing...
Tsibliyev's service record bears her out. At 43, he's a veteran air force pilot, a graduate of the three-year Gagarin academy at Star City and a cosmonaut with 10 years' experience. In 1993 and 1994 he spent 197 days on the Mir station and completed five space walks. When he returned, he was awarded the country's highest honor: Hero of Russia. He also learned that his sister had died while he was aloft. In a melancholy coincidence, he will be told when he lands this time that his stepfather has died, news that has been kept...
...George, a tick specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Kerrville. It's a bin full of corn surrounded by specially angled rollers. As deer push in to eat the corn, the rollers coat the animal's head and neck with a pesticide that targets mites and ticks. Pilot studies on 50-acre plots have produced a 95% drop in the local tick population. "What's neat about this is that it's safe for the deer and doesn't involve wholesale spraying," George says. "We're hoping to try this out very soon in the Northeast...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: General Ronald Fogleman, the Air Force Chief of Staff, asked for early retirement today, raising speculation that Defense Secretary William Cohen has decided to punish Air Force generals in connection with the Khobar Towers bombing. Fogleman, a highly decorated Vietnam War pilot and the 16th Air Force chief of staff, had said he would resign if Cohen held the generals accountable for failing to prevent the June 1996 terrorist blast which killed 19 U.S. airmen. Air Force officials said Fogleman's decision to resign was linked to the defense secretary's anticipated decision, which is expected later this...
...beginning of Roar's pilot offers the hope that the show will maintain an ongoing subplot of a cursed romance between Conor and a rival's daughter. That promise vanishes quickly, unfortunately. It may have been just what Roar needed--a little touch of Melrose Place...