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Cheyenne is a high-altitude airport, 6,156 ft. above sea level. The thinner air requires longer takeoff runs, and the pilot must factor this into the flight plan. "You may ask whether a seven-year-old did the figuring, and I don't know," says Charles Porter of Sky Harbor Air Service in Cheyenne. "A lot of pilots whose time is limited to sea level have forgotten and ended up in the golf course." The weather was ugly. A thunderstorm was moving in from the northwest, winds were 25 to 30 m.p.h. Thunderstorms are a potent cocktail for pilots...
...sluggish, shaky takeoff. The four-seat Cessna seemed to shudder from the moment it lifted off Runway 30, and investigators have suggested it was too heavy for the conditions at that altitude. Everyone on board must have instantly realized something was wrong. Jessica's plane was equipped with dual controls, so that Reid could immediately take over in an emergency, and presumably he did--his arms were fractured more severely than hers, suggesting he had his hands on the yoke. In such a situation, an experienced pilot might have landed the plane on the golf course...
...airplane occurred in the Persian Gulf early Thursday, and caused no loss of life. Last Sunday another F-14 splashed down into the Pacific about 120 miles from southern California, killing its two crew, and on January 29, an F-14 augured into a residential neighborhood in Nashville after takeoff, killing the crew and three people on the ground. Defense spokesman Kenneth Bacon called the F-14 crashes a "mystery", and said that the standdown would give Navy experts time to "wrack their brains for any explanation to the crashes...
...opening up its economy while keeping a tight grip on the political system," Burton says. The next test: whether the junta will let Suu Kyi's overwhelmingly popular National League for Democracy play a true political role. "If so, this rich but backward country could be in for a takeoff that would rival that of Vietnam." Burton says. "If not, more of the brutality and bloodshed that have held it back for four decades could be in store...
Less than one minute after takeoff, the aircraft plunged 400 feet and fell through the roof of the Yacht Club building, on 45 Memorial Drive, at about 9:33 a.m., said eyewitnesses on the scene yesterday...