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...that he does not get to spend enough time with his actress wife Kim. The work "is long and hard and at times gets very tough," he says. So what does the trainer do to relax? When he gets too edgy with his earthbound heavenly bodies, Isaacson, a licensed pilot, sometimes just takes a plane up for a couple of hours of solitary communion with the real stars. --By Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by Michael Riley/Los Angeles
...Pilot John Testrake of TWA's Flight 847, which was hijacked last June by Shi'ite gunmen. Testrake personified the word professionalism under the harshest conditions. Wayne L. Morris Albuquerque...
Describing themselves only as "Egypt's revolutionaries," the hijackers threatened to begin killing passengers at regular intervals unless the Maltese agreed to refuel the plane. Meanwhile, in response to an appeal from the pilot, the hijackers agreed to release eleven women, including the seven Filipino dancers and four Egyptians. Then they asked any Israeli women to identify themselves. Thinking she too would be released, Tamar Artzi, 24, rose from her seat. One of the hijackers aimed his pistol at her head and pulled the trigger. At the last second Artzi turned her head; miraculously, the bullet only grazed her cheek...
...take personal revenge against the leader of the hijackers, a man who identified himself as "Nabil." After the commando assault began, said Galal, Nabil hurled a grenade toward the rear of the plane. Realizing he had taken his eyes off Galal, Nabil turned and fired at him. The pilot ducked, and the bullet grazed his head. Seizing a fire ax, Galal felled the terrorist with one swing, then jumped to safety. In the aftermath of the horror of Flight 648, many questions remained unanswered. Were the terrorists, whose trip was indeed believed to have begun in Tripoli, directly linked...
Controversy immediately erupted over the event's outcome, but there was near unanimity about the virtue of the rescue mission itself. President Reagan somberly supported the decision to go in. So did the hijack survivors, including Pilot Hani Galal, who had told the tower at Valletta, "Please do something. They're going to kill us all." The same shock coupled with somber understanding had accompanied an anti-terrorist assault 17 days earlier in Bogotá, Colombia, where at least two dozen terrorists died, along with nearly 100 hostages...