Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...able to maneuver out of the storm, but Reid certainly would have. Warren Morningstar of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, said, with dual controls "the pilot in command can easily control the aircraft from either seat. There is never a situation in which the nonpilot can put the plane into such immediate peril that there is no recovery." Only after an analysis and "probable cause" finding in about six months will the FAA review its regulations covering young pilots...
...Jessica completing her journey would have been the spirit-lifting final story on the evening news, the tale of human triumph over which anchors could smile winsomely and then say good-night, leaving the viewer with the feeling that all was right with the world. But Jessica's plane crash led all three network news broadcasts and headlined the front pages of newspapers across the country...
...child. When he's watching TV, alarms could go off, and he wouldn't notice." Suggests Fassler: "If you've got a young child who is fascinated by flying, you don't have to let her learn to fly. You could say, 'Let's learn everything we can about planes' or 'Let's go fly in a plane and sit next to the pilot...
...mind. If Jessica had completed the flight in triumph, only a few would have muttered, "I'm glad it worked, but they took a hell of a chance." After the crash, the nation asked, virtually in chorus, "Were they crazy, putting a kid that age in charge of a plane...
...kept thinking, 'Please! Please get some altitude!'" --Tom Johnson, a pilot with 15 years' experience, watching Jessica Dubroff's plane shortly after its fatal takeoff in Cheyenne, Wyoming...