Word: copilot
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...plane straightened out in the darkness, as Captain Robert Baker and his copilot, Robert Reinicke, worked the controls, headed for the Denver Airport 100 miles away. But as it sank steadily toward the earth the passengers had but one thought. "Do we have a chance?" The two stewardesses, one staggering groggily with a bleeding head, could only answer: "Please fasten your seat belts. We will be in Denver in 20 minutes...
...mangled metal. Then, as ambulances and fire trucks roared down from their ready stations, one of the crew jumped out of the wreckage and circled dazedly until a sergeant ran from the trailer camp to lead him away. Miraculously seven others, including Captain Steffes and his copilot, managed to drag themselves free. "Let's get out of here," one of them mumbled. "There are bombs on there...
...hours and 3,200,000 air miles, Captain Heath Proctor of American Airlines boarded his four-engined DC-6 Nevada at Newark Airport as businesslike as his trim blue uniform. As the plane droned west at 20,000 ft. and 275 m.p.h., he turned his controls over to his copilot, walked back through the pressurized cabin to chat with his 54 passengers. Three hours and 22 minutes later, his Flight No. 19 rolled to a stop at the Chicago terminal...
Captain Josef Klesnil, pilot of the plane from Brno, had flown 17 minutes on his northeasterly course when copilot and radioman pulled pistols on him. They ordered him to turn southwest. "Don't joke," said Klesnil. "If you go against our wishes," said the mutineers, "we'll blow your brains out." For more than an hour, with pistols at his head, the captain flew southwest, beyond the Czech border to Munich, in the U.S. zone of Germany...