Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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OAKLAND, California: Flying a 1935 Lockheed Electra 10E, San Antonio businesswoman Linda Finch set off on a journey to retrace Amelia Earhart's doomed around-the-world route, sixty years to the day after Earhart took off. Finch, an accomplished pilot with 20 years of experience flying and restoring historic aircraft, will make 30 stops in 20 countries during her 2 1/2 month trip, including Egypt, Greece, Pakistan and Australia. While the plane's cabin will remain unpressurized without oxygen tanks, technology will provide a safety margin to help prevent a duplication of Earhart's failed 1937 journey. Flint will...
...credibility scale. While the FBI has bluntly dismissed descriptions by several eyewitnesses who thought they saw a glowing object approach the craft just before the catastrophic explosion, it's a little harder to write off the testimony of Captain Chris Baur, an Air National Guard chopper pilot who witnessed the crash at close range and mounted the initial rescue effort. According to National Guard sources, B aur told his superiors that night that he thought he had seen a missile streaking toward the plane. The FBI insists that there is no proof of such a missile. NTSB experts...
Crandall is the kind of blunt corporate instrument who is used to this sort of stuff. He has frequently antagonized the pilots over the years and once even mocked a pilot-commissioned study of the company, saying, "If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port." But he may also have misread apa's intent. Crandall thought he had a deal last fall, but a hard-line union contingent, working through the Internet, mobilized membership to reject a contract offer blessed by the union's executive committee...
...difference at United, the nation's second largest airline, is that its employees (not including flight attendants) happen to own the company, and the rising bitterness among its pilots and machinists threatens the entire premise of employee ownership. In 1994 United employees completed a purchase of 55% of the company. In exchange for their ownership stake, they made concessions totaling $4.8 billion. (Pilots as a group own 25% of the company.) They also gave up their right to strike. Yet United's pilots, embittered by what they feel was harsh and callous treatment of them by their management during labor...
...People vs. Larry Flynt. Publicist: "I thought its reputation was inflated, and the backlash hurt. The media were interested in Courtney Love because she hadn't acted before, but she didn't do anything that Valerie Perrine or Candy Clark couldn't do on automatic pilot." Former studio head: "I didn't want to see a picture about Larry Flynt the same way I wouldn't want to see a picture about Hitler...